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Vegan Cinnamon Roll Cookies. Shhortbread like cookie dough dusted with cinnamon sugar, rolled, sliced and baked for cinnamon roll bites. Refined Oil-free Vegan Recipe.
Cinnamon Rolls, but in a cookie form with shortbread dough, rolled up with cinnamon sugar filling = Addictive!
These cinnamony bites are a perfect treat for fall or the holidays. No added oil in these cookies! The nut butter and nut flour makes them a sturdy shortbread like cookie, which is crisp and soft with a cinnamon sugar filling. Add an icing if you like. Change up the spice to pumpkin pie spice. These cookies are Easy, delicious and a favorite of everyone.
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Cinnamon can come from various origins and can be cassia and not cinnamon. If you have access to various cinnamons, try all to find the one you love best. I like true cinnamon and Indonesian cassia. They are fresher and more vibrant and pleasing for me.
So cinnamony!
Use other spice blends for variation. Such as pumpkin pie spice, cardamom, chai spice etc. Add a sugar icing to add to gift baskets!
Vegan Cinnamon Roll Cookies - Oilfree
Vegan Cinnamon Roll Cookies. Soft shortbread like cookie dough dusted with cinnamon sugar, rolled, sliced and baked for delicious cinnamon roll bites. Refined Oil-free Vegan Recipe.
Ingredients
Cookie Dough:
- 2 tbsp smooth cashew butter
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup almond flour
- 3/4 cup flour, (I use unbleached all purpose)
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
Cinnamon mixture:
- 2-3 tbsp brown sugar, or coconut sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon, , or use other blends suh a pumpkin pie spice, chai spice etc
- oil spray or water spray as needed
Instructions
- In a bowl, add the cashew butter, maple syrup and vanilla extract. Mix well to combine. (let sit at room temp for 10 mins so the nut butter warms and mixes easily).
- Add the rest of the dry ingredients to make a soft dough. Start with 3/4 cup flour and add a tbsp more at a time.
- Let the mixture sit for 10 mins. If still sticky, add a tbsp more flour. The dough should be smooth and not too dry and not sticky. Roll it out using some flour into a 2mm thin large rectangle.
- Mix the sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl until well combined. Spray water or oil on the rolled out dough. Sprinkle cinnamon mixture. Roll the dough into a tight log and seal the edge with water.
- Let the log chill for 15 to 30 mins. Preheat the oven to 335 deg F (168 C)
- Slice and bake for 12 mins. Cool completely. Add a sugar icing if you like. Store covered on the counter for upto 3 days, refrigerated for upto 2 weeks.
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Notes
To make these nutfree, use sunbutter and sunflower seed meal.
I havent tried these gluten-free. A gluten-free blend should work. Keep the dough moist so it doesnt break apart while rolling.
Nutrition is for 1 cookie
Nutrition
Calories: 99kcal, Carbohydrates: 17g, Protein: 2g, Fat: 2g, Sodium: 50mg, Potassium: 56mg, Sugar: 7g, Calcium: 26mg, Iron: 0.7mg
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Did you make this recipe? Rate and comment below!
These are absolutely amazing! Super easy to put together and the results are so tasty. They lasted less than 1 day in my house so another batch on the agenda! Thank you, Richa!
wow – that was fast
Used homemade sunflower butter. They were super easy to make and some of the best cookies ever!! This is a keeper!!
Excellent . good to hear
These were epic fail 🙁 when I tried to roll the dough, it all crumbled to bits. I had to bake it as cookie bites. These were tasty, though! Any thoughts on what went wrong? Would like to try again.
The dough needed more moisture and needed to be pliable. Nut butters vary in their moisture content and texture as well as the flours can vary by brand. Just add kore maple syrup until the mixture is smooth and slightly soft before trimming to roll. If the nut butter was too solid even at room temperature, you might need to warm the dough in the microwave for a few second
Hi, I would love to try this gluten-free. Please suggest replacements. Thanks
Try the dough from my gingerbread cookies without molasses. Veganricha.com/?s=gingerbread
These are so good! Thank you so much for this recipe!
I’m allergic to tree nuts so I used Wowbutter in place of cashew and regular flour in place of almond. I added some soy milk to help create the dough texture.
Wow! sounds perfect. thank you for your positive feedback
Pinterest fail for sure 😭 tried making these followed directions exactly and they wouldn’t roll out too dry and I added way less flour than they said. The n I tried to roll them up and that was a joke. Ended up rolling it all back into a ball and making balls and baking them. They tasted awful 😫
What flour did you use? you can add some non dairy milk until you have a dough and then roll it out.
Can I use smooth, all natural peanut butter. I have a huge jar!
you can, the pb flavor is stronger
About to put them in the oven…can’t wait!! Can these be frozen?
yes
Love, love, love this recipe! I was very distracted and I confused the beginning of another recipe with the beginning of this one so I ended up using brown sugar instead of maple syrup. I also only had peanut butter which I didn’t want to use so I used my homemade vegan butter instead. The brown sugar made the dough too dry so I added a bit of non-dairy milk. This recipe is very forgiving because it all worked out great! I will be making it again soon as our double batch is almost all gone already :D. Thank you so much for sharing all these always wonderful recipes, Richa. You are truly gifted and a gift to us all.
Going to try this Diwali for sure.
Can I substitute cashew butter with almond butter?
I am diabetic, would like to substitute maple syrup with jaggery/coconut sugar. Can you suggest approximate quantity?
use a 1/3 cup sugar of choice and mix it with warm 2 tbsp water ornon dairy milk and use.You might need additional flour to make a dough