Lemon Pull Apart Rolls

These lovely lemon pull apart rolls are a piece of heaven and they literally melt in your mouth! Making them with frozen rolls makes them so easy!

Why You’ll Love This Recipe!

Amazing Lemon Flavor! The best part of this lemon pull-apart bread is how it tastes.  It is full of lovely lemon flavor.  

So Easy to Make! The second best part is how easy the recipe is because it uses frozen roll dough!  I actually found this recipe over at the Rhodes website and it was love at first site and first taste!  

Great Texture: The sugar creates a nice crunchy, lemony texture on top and the inside of the roll is soft and sweet.

No Yeast Involved! Because these rolls are made with store bought, frozen roll dough there is no instant yeast or dry ingredients involved!

Ingredients Needed

• Frozen dinner rolls. I use Rhodes frozen rolls but you can use other brands. Each roll weighs about 1.3 oz. See below if you prefer to make your own roll dough.
• Lemons
• Granulated Sugar
• Butter salted
• Powdered Sugar

How to Make Lemon Pull Apart Rolls

• Remove frozen rolls from freezer, place on a baking sheet or plate and cover with plastic wrap. Allow to thaw at room temperature. You want them to be thawed but still cold.  Depending on the temperature of your house, this will take around 1 1/2 hours.  I used 12 rolls for my 10 inch cast iron skillet pan.
• Mix up lemon sugar mixture by combining sugar and lemon zest.  Stir together with a fork or spoon, you can even use your fingers to rub the lemon zest into the sugar so it gets infused into the sugar.

Tip # 1: I like to use my 10 inch or 12 inch cast iron skillet every chance I get so that is what I used.  If you don’t have one, you should!  But you can also use a deep-dish pizza or pie pan too.

• Cut the rolls in half and lay them into the pan.  Pour melted butter over the top.

• Sprinkle half of the lemon sugar mixture over the top.   Cover them with plastic wrap.

• Set the rolls in a nice warm place and let them rise for an hour or so or until they double in size.  Then sprinkle the other half of the sugar mixture on top. They should look like this.

• Place in the oven and bake until they are baked through and nice and golden brown.
• While baking, mix up the lemon glaze combing powdered sugar, melted butter and lemon juice until you have a nice drizzling consistency.
• Remove the rolls from the oven and let them cool for five minutes before adding the glaze.

Aren’t they pretty!? They will look perfect sitting on your brunch or breakfast table. I serve them right out of the cast iron pan.

Let’s just say I ate my fair share before my husband delivered them to the neighbors.  I probably really should thank him for sharing them or I would have definitely eaten them all!  Make these lemon pull apart rolls now and thank me later.

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Some of my other favorite recipes bread recipes:

• Cheese Pull Apart Bread
• Buttery Cloverleaf Yeast Rolls
• Cinnamon Roll Pull Aparts
• Pizza Monkey Bread
• 30 Minute Rolls

• Quick and Easy Orange Rolls
• Everything Bagel Seasoning Pull Apart Rolls
• Magleby’s Rolls

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