Vegan cinnamon cardamom buns
When the best parts of cinnamon rolls and cardamom buns are combines this is what happens: vegan cinnamon cardamom buns. Mouthwatering, scrumptious treats with a delicious swirl inside!
Ingredients
Dough
- 2 cups (480 ml) plant-based milk such as oat milk
- 1/2 cups melted neutral flavored coconut oil or any other oil or melted vegan butter of choice
- 1/2 cups (100 g) sugar
- 1 pack (11 g) active dry yeast
- 5 cups (640 g) all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp salt
Filling
- 1/2 cup melted coconut oil
- 1/2 cup syrup I used date syrup, but any syrup you like will work
- 1/2 cup nut butter I prefer cashew butter, but almond / hazelnut / walnut would also work.
- 2 tsp Ceylon cinnamon
- 1,5 tsp ground (green) cardamom
- 1/4 tsp salt
Frosting
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tbsp plant-based milk such as oat milk
- 1/4 tsp Bourbon vanilla powder or 1/2 tsp vanilla extract Also 1 tsp of vanilla sugar would work!
Instructions
- Warm plant milk until it's about 42 C / 110 F (not too warm, because it will kill the yeast). Whisk together milk, oil and sugar.
- Sprinkle yeast on top and let sit for about a minute.
- Add 4 cups of flour and mix with a wooden spoon.
- Cover with a cloth and let rise in a warm place for an hour.
- After one hour you should have about double the amount of dough you started with.
- Add rest of the flour and stir well.
- On a well-floured surface, knead the dough until it doesn't stick to the surface.
- Roll the dough with a rolling pin into a large rectangle shape about 1/2 inch (1,5 cm) thick.
- Whisk all filling ingredients in a bowl until you have a sticky thick paste.
- Spread paste over the surface of the dough, also the edges.
- Cut the dough into 4 stripes, roll each stripe into a roll. NOTE: if you're watching the Tasty video, this is where I start diverging from the Tasty recipe :)
- Combine two rolls together and knead until you have a big ball of dough where the filling is randomly swirled inside. Do the same to the other two rolls.
- Now divide one of the balls into about 9-10 pieces and roll into small buns. Do the same to the other ball. So altogether you should have about 18-20 buns.
- Preheat oven to 225 C / 437 F.
- Let buns rise covered with a cloth for 15 minutes on a baking sheet.
- Bake buns (one baking sheet at a time) in the mid rack for about 12 minutes. Baking time varies so you can set the timer to 10 minutes first to check the buns. Let buns cool before frosting.
- Mix all frosting ingredients and cover buns with frosting.
- Enjoy these delicious treats! Happy Cinnamon Roll day!
Notes
The dough recipe is based on a recipe by Tasty. I veganized the recipe and made it into an entirely different yummy treat.