Everyone Cinnamon Rolls
Every year I make cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning. The warm, comforting smell fills the whole house and sets the scene for the day. Now I’m not personally GF or DF but I am always asked for recipes that are. So I tried all the most popular GF and regular cinnamon roll recipes online, so that I could figure out how to create something that’s simpler to make, and that even more people can enjoy. Drum roll please. I’ve tested this 8 times now and it’s THE ONE. You only need 12 ingredients - and there’s lots of options for substitutions (see Notes at the end). Happy holidays everyone!
Ingredients
- Caputo GF pizza flour
- instant yeast
- coconut sugar
- salt
- whole psyllium husk
- warm water
- unsweetened almond milk
- vegan butter
- apple cider vinegar
- egg
- egg yolk
- vegan butter
- coconut sugar
- ground cinnamon
- powdered sugar
- almond milk
- vanilla bean paste
- vanilla extract
- salt
Method
- 1
Set out the vegan butter and place 2 eggs in lukewarm water to bring to room temp
- 2
Place the bowl of your stand mixer (or large mixing bowl) on a food weighing scale. Add 347 g GF pizza flour, 7 g instant yeast, 40g coconut sugar and 1/2 tsp salt and mix lightly with a spatula. Make a well in the center and set aside (Note: Instant yeast can be mixed directly into the flour — no blooming needed)
- 3
Make the psyllium gel: in a small bowl mix 2 tbsp psyllium husk with 110 ml (7 1/2 tbsp) warm water 30–45 s until a thick gel forms. Add it to the well.
- 4
Place a small bowl with 45 g vegan butter and 120 ml almond milk (in a separate vessel) in the microwave for 20s at the same time. Take the milk out and check temp - you want it like lukewarm bath water not hot. Add it to the well.
- 5
Continue to melt vegan butter in 10 second increments then add to well when it’s lukewarm not hot.
- 6
Add the ½ tsp apple cider vinegar, the whole egg, and 1 egg yolk to the well
- 7
Place bowl onto stand fitted with the bread hook and mix on low-medium 3–4 min until dough comes together, scraping sides and bottom as needed.
- 8
Knead another 5 min (or 8–10 min by hand). Dough will become slightly stickier - this is good!
- 9
Cover bowl with plastic wrap
- 10
Chill in fridge 20 mins
- 11
While the dough chills, prepare:
- 12
cinnamon sugar: in a small bowl, mix 60 g coconut sugar with 2 tbsp cinnamon
- 13
Place a piece of parchment on counter and lightly flour it
- 14
On another piece of parchment draw around the base of a 9 x 9 pan with a pencil then cut out the shape. Set aside for later
- 15
Turn chilled dough onto the floured parchment and roll into ¼-inch thick rectangle, about 10×14 in
- 16
Pat 3 tbsp softened vegan butter onto dough, edge to edge
- 17
Use excess butter from hands to lightly grease the pan
- 18
Sprinkle cinnamon sugar over butter
- 19
Use fingers to rub the cinnamon sugar gently into the butter and dough
- 20
Place the pre-cut parchment paper into the bottom of the greased pan
- 21
Use a pizza cutter to slice prepared dough lengthways into 9 equal strips around 1 inch wide
- 22
Roll each strip tightly towards you to create the perfect spiral roll
- 23
Place rolls in greased and lined pan
- 24
Cover pan with plastic wrap. Proof in a warm place. I turn the oven on to the lowest setting then turn off and leave door open for 5 mins till mildly warm (around 80F). Turn oven light on and place rolls on middle rack with door shut
- 25
Let rise until puffy, touching each other (60 min)
- 26
Take rolls out and preheat oven to 350 °F / 175 °C
- 27
Bake 18 min, rotating halfway at 9 mins. Tops should be lightly golden and spring back when touched
- 28
Cool 10 min
- 29
While the rolls cool - in a small bowl, whisk 50 g powdered sugar, 1 tbsp almond milk, ¼ tsp vanilla, and pinch of salt. Drizzle over rolls
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