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1 hour Vegan Cinnamon Rolls. 1 Bowl Aquafaba Homemade Vegan Cinnamon Rolls Recipe. Easy Cinnamon Rolls with Cashew cream frosting. Ready in 60 minutes. Vegan Soy-free Palm Oil free Breakfast Recipe. Pin this recipe!
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These cinnamon rolls are soft and tender, need 1 bowl, and have a secret ingredient. Aquafaba! Aquafaba is the liquid from a can of chickpeas (chickpea brine), that can be used to make meringues and can be used as egg substitute in some vegan baking. You can make aquafaba at home too by pressure cooking dried chickpeas in water. The viscous water remaining after the chickpeas are cooked is aquafaba and can be frozen for future use. In these cinnamon rolls, the aqufaba adds moisture to the rolls and also helps them rise quicker and rise more for a quick cinnamon rolls treat.
Proof the yeast. Add the rest of the ingredients and knead into a dough. Roll out the dough using flour. Sprinkle your filling of choice. Roll up, slice and place in parchment lined pan. Let the rolls rise in a warm place (near your preheating oven). Bake and done. Use your favorite frosting. I like my frosting not too sweet and sugary, so I used cream cheese like cashew cream + lemon + cinnamon + sugar frosting adapted from the cashew vanilla frosting on my carrot cake. You can use any frosting or a simple Sugar + non dairy milk icing.
If you have time, use the 2 rise method as that makes the rolls even more fluffy and soft. Especially if you are using combination flours or all whole grain flours, as those flours need more extra moisture and airy yeast action to keep them softer and not dense. Glutenfree version here. Recipe video right above the Recipe widget.
More Breakfast options from the blog
- Vegan Carrot Cake Loaf
- Banana Chocolate chunk Muffins. GF
- One bowl Pumpkin Bread
- Pumpkin Banana Cranberry Bread – GF
- 1 Bowl Banana Apple Bread. Can be made into muffins
- Banana Walnut Loaf GF
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Now the rolls. Make the dough with aquafaba (Find out what more you can do with aquafaba on the fb group here.). Not into aquafaba? use non dairy yogurt or use some lecithin.
Roll out the dough. Brush melted vegan butter or oil. Sprinkle the filling evenly.
Roll up on the longer side. Slice.
Place slices in parchment lined baking pan.
Let the rolls rise and double in size.
Bake until golden.
Cool for a few minutes. Then frost with your favorite frosting. Serve warm. Make these Aquafaba Vegan Cinnamon Rolls and let me know how they turned out!
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Recipe
1 Hour Cinnamon Rolls with Aquafaba
Ingredients
Cinnamon Rolls:
- 3/4 cup warm-hot water
- 1/4 cup aquafaba, chickpea brine, (or use room temp non dairy yogurt or 1/4 cup coconut milk + 1.5 tbsp flax meal. Though the rolls do best with aquafaba)
- 1 tbsp sugar or other sweetener
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 packet active yeast, or 2 1/2 tsp active yeast
- 2 tbsp oil, or use melted vegan butter. I usually use oil
- 1 tsp nutritional yeast, optional
- 2.5 cups or more flour, I use unbleached white or a combination of white and wheat flour
- 1/3 tsp salt
Filling:
- 1 to 2 tbsp Oil , or melted vegan butter
- 1/3 cup or more coconut sugar , or brown sugar
- 2 to 3 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
- Add some cardamom or nutmeg for variation
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F / 180ºc. Line a 8 by 8 inch brownie pan or 9 inch pie pan with parchment. Mix the first 5 ingredients under rolls until the sugar is mixed in. Let sit for a minute for the yeast to activate.
- Add in the oil, nutritional yeast and mix in. Add 2 cups flour and salt and knead. Add more flour, few tbsps at a time to make a soft somewhat smooth dough. 4 to 6 mins.
- Roll the dough out using additional flour into a 10 by 14 inch rectangle
- Spray or brush oil or vegan butter on the rolled out dough. (use as much melted vegan butter as you like :)).Sprinkle sugar, cinnamon and salt evenly. Roll the dough tightly along the longer edge to make a cylinder.
- Slice using a pizza cutter or floss or a serrated knife. Place the slices in a parchment lined brownie baking pan or pie pan. Spray or brush oil on top. Cover lightly with a towel and Let the pan sit near the warm oven for 15 to 20 minutes or until just about doubled. Remove the towel.
- Bake at 350f / 180ºc for 21 to 23 minutes or until golden on some edges.(just about starting to get golden)
- Let the rolls sit for a few minutes, while you make the icing or frosting of choice. Frost and serve.
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Notes
If the glaze hardens on sitting, heat it in the microwave, add a bit more milk and use. I prefer the cinnamon cashew frosting from my carrot cake on these, thinned out a bit and with some more sweetener. Gluten-free version here
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Hi and thank you for the recipe, can’t wait to try it.
I have a question, about the yeast – is it 1 packet active yeast + 2½ tsp active yeast ?
Or just one packet OR 2.5 tsp active yeast?
Thank you!
its Or. 1 packet has 2 1/4 tsp yeast. if you have bulk yeast, use the measure.
Thanks, these were delicious and surprisingly easy to make (no mixer needed). They were wonderful even without the frosting. 🙂
Awesome!!
CINNAMON ROLLSSSSSSS 😛 <3 I think that using aquafaba is such a clever idea–I heard that you can also make a healthy sour cream and marshmallow whip out of that liquid! I have to try that idea very very soon!
yep. it whips up into a lot of airy whip which you can use in many ways.
I made these this morning as well and they turned out perfectly! It was my first time using aquafaba and I’m thrilled it worked so well. The children were delighted I actually made cinnamon rolls for breakfast. They were *delicious.* Thank you for yet another great recipe!
Thanks, these look amazing! A friend of mine gave me your cookbook for my birthday in February, and it’s already dog-eared!
By the way, the Bloggy Awards link you put up is broken.
thanks for letting me know. just fixed it.
I am so happy that you love the book!
These look so wonderful! I’ve been hoarding my aquafaba in the fridge and have been itching to use it! Can these be made the night before and let rise overnight on the counter or in the fridge? I am not too experienced with using aquafaba yet, and don’t know if it will keep it’s integrity over night or if it needs to be used right away?
In a recipe like this, you don’t have to change anything in terms of storing the dough with aquafaba. You can refrigerate the dough overnight. Let it come to room temp then roll it out and proceed.
Thank you!!
Made these beauties this morning and they were the best vegan cinnamon rolls I’ve tested to date! Thanks for another great recipe!
Awesome!!
Hi.
Yummy looking pics!
I’ll bet these are so decadent all warm and gooey.
They definitely are!
Do you think this would work using a gluten free flour?
It might work with a gf flour blend + some additional psllium husk. You might have roll them delicately. I have gf yeastfree rolls on the blog here https://fettabbau-trim.today/2014/11/gluten-free-yeast-free-pumpkin-cinnamon-rolls.html%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Oh mmmmm geee! These look amazing! We were just near a Trader Joe’s and picked up their cinnamon rolls, but there were only 5. I love that this is a whole tray. ???? Hopefully I won’t eat them all in one day.
5 is good, for one 🙂