Cinnamon Rolls
The weather outside is frightful, but these cinnamon rolls are so delightful! If you love the smell of freshly baked cinnamon rolls in winter just as much as us, make these irresistible, sweet and fluffy cinnamon rolls, perfect to make those dark and cold winter days cozier. This recipe also has some variations that you can try, so you can make them all winter without getting bored. Enjoy!
Equipment
- Oven
- Standing mixer Optional
Ingredients
Dough
- 300-350 ml plant-based milk oat or soy
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 7 grams instant yeast
- 500 grams flour
- 1 small tsp salt
- 16 grams vanilla sugar or use the seeds of one vanilla bean or 1 tsp of vanilla extract
- 100 ml rice oil or any oil without a strong flavour
Filling
- 200 grams sugar
- 200 grams plant based butter room temprature
- 1 tbsp cinnamon
- 50 grams walnuts chopped
Instructions
- Start by making the dough. You can knead it with your hands, but using a standing mixer is easier.
- First, heat the milk until lukewarm, but not warmer than 40 °C. Add 2 tablespoons of sugar and yeast to the milk and let the mixture rest until it starts to become foamy. This takes a few minutes.
- In the meantime, mix together flour, salt and vanilla in a big bowl or in the standing mixer.
- Create a hole in the flour and pour the oil and the milk mixture into it.
- Mix everything together and knead for circa 10 minutes, until the dough is nice and soft. If the dough is too dry, you can add some milk.
- Cover the dough with a kitchen towel and let it rest for 45 minutes. After 45 minutes the dough should have doubled in size. If this isn't the case let it rest for a little longer.
- Meanwhile, make the filling. Mix the sugar, butter and cinnamon with a (electric) mixer until soft and slightly airy. Add the chopped nuts.
- After the dough has risen, hit it to get some of the air out of it.
- Spread a baking sheet on your countertop and place the dough on top of it.
- Roll the dough out. You should get a rectangle of about 30×40 cm. Try to get the edges as straight as possible.
- Spread the cinnamon filling over the dough. Keep the longer edge which is most far away from you free from filling.
- Now, using the baking sheet, roll the dough like you would with a sushi roll. Roll the dough towards the edge that you kept free from the filling. The tighter the roll, the better.
- Cut the roll into 12 pieces with a (bread) knife and place the pieces on a baking sheet in a baking tray. The cinnamon rolls should just touch each other, but leave enough room for them to rise.
- Pre-heat the oven on 180 °C.
- Let the rolls rise for another 20-30 minutes, until they have doubled in size.
- Bake them in the oven for circa 25 minutes, or until golden brown. Enjoy!
Notes
Variation tip: you can swap the walnuts for any other nuts that you like, for example pecans. You can also try adding some ginger or cardamom to the filling.