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These easy no yeast cinnamon rolls feature sweet potato puree which makes them the fluffiest, most pillowy homemade vegan cinnamon buns you’ll ever make. No dough-punching & no long waiting for the dough to rise! Jump to Recipe
Cinnamon buns make all mornings better. We all know that! But if I told you you can take the old cinnamon roll to the next level, by adding some sweet potato? Would you trust me and try it? I hope you do, because boy these Sweet Potato Cinnamon Rolls! SO GOOD! Plus these are no-yeast cinnamon rolls – vegan and no hour-long waiting around for the dough to rise.
Now, we don’t naturally think of sweet potatoes as a dessert ingredient – or sweet breakfast treat – but let me tell you, there are so many ways to incorporate them into your breakfast routine. On the blog, I already have a bunch of sweet breakfast treats using sweet potato puree, like my famous sweet potato blondies, this sweet potato bread, or this sweet potato crumb bread.
Other than flavor, there are many more reasons why adding sweet potatoes to your vegan baked goods is a good idea. First of all, sweet potato puree gives the rolls this gorgeous yellow-orange color. Secondly, it makes the texture of the dough somehow more soft and almost flaky! These rolls literally melt in your mouth. Truly amazing.
I’m especially fond of adding sweet potato puree to sweet breads and buns. They add flavor and give the dough a pillowy-soft texture. Now, imagine this swirled with cinnamon sugar – such a lovely indulgence.
INGREDIENTS
- Sweet potato puree adds just the right amount of moisture and a hint of earthy sweetness to these no-yeast cinnamon rolls. You can mash sweet potatoes after either roasting or boiling them. Roasted ones will have less liquid, whereas boiled sweet potatoes will add more water to the dough. Use your gut and add more flour if needed until a slightly sticky dough forms. I usually use canned purée.
- Flour – good old All-Purpose Flour will do.
- Non-dairy milk, such as almond, soy, light coconut or oat milk work perfectly for this recipe.
- Cinnamon + Brown Sugar for the filling.
- Baking soda + baking powder are the raising agents here and rise the dough within as little as 30 minutes. GENIUS!
TIPS AND SUBSTITUTIONS FOR VEGAN NO YEAST CINNAMON ROLLS:
- Fresh sweet potato cinnamon rolls in the morning are a beautiful thing! To get them quicker, store the dough overnight, then let it sit on the counter for an hour before you proceed to make the dough into rolls.
- You might need a few tablespoons more flour to get a non-sticky dough so go with your gut.
- Use any non-dairy milk for the dough.
- I used brown sugar for the filling but you can use equal parts of cane, coconut, or granulated sugar instead.
- No-yeast cinnamon rolls are best served fresh and warm but they will keep on a counter for a day and refrigerated for up to 3 days.
- I left them plain, but you can add a simple icing.
In a medium-sized bowl, mix in all of the wet ingredients until well combined. In another bowl mix all the dry ingredients really well.
Add 2.5 cups of the pre-mixed flour mixture into the wet and mix well. Depending on the consistency of your sweet potato puree and the sweetener used, you will need a few tbsp or up to a cup of flour to turn the mixture into a slightly sticky dough.
As soon as the mixture is dough-like, bring it together. Cover the bowl with a towel and let it sit for least half an hour. The dough will rise a bit.
Transfer the dough on a working surface and using some flour, roll it out into an 11×15 inch rectangle.
As to the cinnamon filling, you can go two ways. Either mix the sugar, cinnamon, and oil to form a paste and then spread that onto the dough. This usually requires a lot more oil. The other option is to brush the oil on the rolled out dough and sprinkle the sugar-cinnamon mixture on top.
Once the filling has been spread, use a pizza cutter to cut the dough into 1 to 1.5 inch wide strips.
Roll each of the strips tightly to form your cinnamon rolls. Place the rolls in a well-greased baking dish. For the amount of dough, you will need at least a 9 x 13 baking dish.
Bake these sweet potato cinnamon rolls at 375F(190C) for 25-30 minutes. Once done, remove them from the oven, and serve warm.
These no-yeast cinnamon rolls are nice and soft. If you baked them close together, keep in mind that the warmer they are, the harder it will be to separate them. But if you go in for one roll and end up with one and a half, it’s really not the end of the world either.
HOW TO STORE NO-YEAST CINNAMON ROLLS:
These rolls are best served warm and freshly baked can be stored on the counter for a day and refrigerated for 4 days and frozen for up to a month
MORE SWEET VEGAN SWEET BREAKFAST RECIPES:
- Gluten-free Cinnamon Rolls
- Sweet Potato Doughnuts
- Pumpkin Coconut Muffins
- Simple Spelt Sweet Potato Biscuits
- Vegan Cinnamon Rolls
No Yeast Sweet Potato Cinnamon Rolls Vegan
Ingredients
Wet ingredients
- 3/4 cup heated non dairy milk, such as almond, soy, light coconut or oat
- 3/4 cup sweet potato puree, or well mashed cooked sweet potatoes ( if your sweet potato purée is extra moist, use 1/2 cup +2 tablespoons)
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 tsp vinegar, apple cider or white
- 3 tbsp maple syrup or sugar of choice
Dry ingredients
- 3 to 3.5 cups flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
Filling
- 1/3 to 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 2-3 tbsp oil
Instructions
- In a bowl, mix in all of the wet ingredients until well combined.
- In another bowl mix all the dry ingredients really well.
- Add 2.5 cups of flour mixture into the wet and mix well. Depending on the consistency of your sweet potato puree/ mash and the sweetener used, you will need few tbsp or up to a cup of flour to make the mixture into just slightly sticky dough. You don’t want to overwork the door as the more you mix and knead , sweet potato purée will leak more moisture)
- As soon as the mixture is dough like, bring it together. Cover the bowl with a towel and let it sit for least half an hour. The dough will rise a bit.
- Transfer the dough on a working surface and using some flour, Lightly roll it out into 11x15 inch rectangle.
Filling:
- You can go two ways with the filling. Mix the sugar, cinnamon and oil to form a paste and then spread that onto the dough. Usually this requires lot more oil.
- The other option is to brush the oil on the rolled out dough, mix sugar and cinnamon in a bowl and sprinkle the sugar-cinnamon mixture on top.
- Once the filling has been spread, use a pizza cutter to cut the dough into 1 to 1.5 inch wide strips.
- Roll each of the strips tightly to form your cinnamon rolls.
- Place the rolls in a well-greased baking dish. For the amount of dough, you will need at least a 9 by 13 baking dish. Bake the buns at 375F(190C) for 25-30 minutes. Once done, remove them from the oven, and serve warm.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
The recipe looks great! I was wondering why the direction to cut into 1-inch strips and roll tightly. Maybe the dough texture doesn’t let you shape it into a single roll then cut it into the buns with a dough cutter? Thanks for all these wonderful recipes.
Yes it is softer and is much easier to just cut the strips And roll
Can’t wait to try this recipe. I would, however, like to ask…is there a reason for you cutting each individual strip and then rolling into a bun over the more traditional method of rolling the entire piece of dough and then slicing off each roll?
Is the dough too unwieldy? Thank you
Yes it is soft. And doing it is this way is so much easier!!
Thanks. You are amazing. I follow very few people, you are truly special.
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This is an odd question but do you think the recipe would work as muffins or some type of loaf? I have super small counters and no roller! The recipe looks great and want to figure out how I can make it.
Make this one As loaf or muffins. You can sprinkle in some
Cinnamon sugar on top. https://fettabbau-trim.today/vegan-sweet-potato-bread-recipe/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
This is perfect- thx!
These look great! Can’t wait to try out this recipe. I’ve loved everything I’ve made from your blog so far and recently purchased one of your cookbooks. What kind of oil did you use?
Safflower
Thank you for sharing this awesome recipe. The best one my hubby loved with the flavour of cinammon. Thank you Richa❤️❤️
yay! glad you both enjoyed
Wow this looks yummy. Can I replace the flour for oat flour? Or does it get dry then? Would you reccoment more milk if I want to use oat flower?
Love,
Merel
Oat flour is going to dry them out. Also rolling will be hard as oat flour is Glutenfree and will break
Can you please post a picture of what the inside looks like once you pull it apart? I want to see the texture before I make it.
I don’t have a picture, we ate them and then it was too dark 🙂 they are just mildly dense than yeasted cinnamon rolls
Do you think this would work with a gluten free flour blend? They look delicious!
I’m going to try these this week with Bob’s red mill GF flour mix! I’ll let you know how they turn out!
Direct sub might not work. See my Glutenfree rolls linked in notes and use half portion of liquid as sweet potato purée in those
Is it possible to use whole wheat flour? If so are there any other adjustments that I would need to make?
Thank you!
Yes you can use ww flour. You’ll need a bit less flour
Thanks for the recipe. I shall definitely try it .
Do you think it would be possible to use the white flesh sweet potatoes in this? They are a lot starchier than the orange variety but all that is available where I live?
It should work