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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.
Can I use homemade milk instead of water? I want to make these overnight andI want to use fruit as the filling. Can I put the fruit in overnight or should I wait for the morning?
Yes you can use homemade milk. You can fill in fruits that dont oxidize when sliced and stored.
Thanks for your quick response. I am going to make this over the weekend and I’ll let you know how it goes. I say a recipe for an apple filing that is cooked and cooled before it’s put in the rolls. I hope it works!
These were GREAT! So soft and tender. I used 2 cups white flour, 2 cups white whole wheat flour, and 1 cup almond flour.
Hey! So I was wondering if I could freeze them as well… I live alone and recently got a freezer so it would be amazing if I could finish 1/2 or 1/3 and freeze the rest of the dough.
yes you can freeze the dough, as a ball or rolled out and filled. thaw and use.
Thanks!
Hey I tried making these but they didn’t rise. I used all whole wheat flour and I think maybe the yeast was old? Any other ideas why they didn’t turn out?
Hi Marissa, whole wheat flour takes a lot more moisture to be able to rise. It generally will make dense rolls that might not rise well. You might want to use half white half whole wheat. Also make a really soft dough(use less flour to begin with). Spray water on the rolls and let it sit for a longer time to rise well.
Hi Richa,
This looks so yummy that my mouth is watering. Can you tell me what frosting I should use? I am a novice in baking. I want to make these for my 3 year old daughter
Thanks
Shilpa
Use my cashew frosting from my carrot cake here https://fettabbau-trim.today/2016/03/vegan-carrot-cake-recipe.html%3C/a%3E%3Cbr /> or a simple glaze 1 cup powdered sugar, a pinch of salt, 1 tbsp or more lemon juice(for lemon glaze) or non dairy milk.
Mix everything under glaze until smooth. Drizzle immediately on the cinnamon rolls.
If the glaze hardens on sitting, heat it in the microwave, add a bit more milk and use.
I did your wonderful cinnamon rolls today with the people in the nursing home, where I do some volunteer work. As they are older Swiss people, they are a bit picky eaters and not so much used to “non-European” cooking, but they LOVED them and despite doing two batches it was all gone in no time at all, so quickly that they were no left-overs and no time to take a picture of them.
THANKS for sharing. You made the day for many people over here today.
Thats so awesome!! and thank You for making the rolls so well!
I made these yesterday, and they were amazing. I used at least a cup more flour than the recipe called for, but my kitchen was very warm, so maybe the dough was extra sticky. On that note, I would also recommend putting the dough in the fridge after you roll it into a cylinder. I think it would be easier to cut if it chilled first. The other change I made was to use a larger pan; 8×8 was not large enough for me. I will definitely make these again, thank you!! (My friends loved them last night, and then I ate 3 more for breakfast this morning).
My first attempt at a recipe with AF. Huge success. Thank you thank you!