Another Lovely Vegan Recipe

Nothing will get to your heart like these soft, sweet, melt-in-your-mouth cinnamon rolls. And like all of our recipes they are low fat, low sugar and healthy. I have eaten cinnamon rolls, glazed over with sugar, made from white flour, loaded with empty calories, and practically blacked out afterwards from the sugar crash. I grew tired of those yucky things quickly. By contrast, my cinnamon rolls, well, I don’t want to brag, but they say ‘I love you’ and leave you wanting more. These cinnamon rolls have been known to be responsible for people falling in love!

I usually make mine with leftover pizza crust. After rolling out my crust I simply take the leftover dough and make rolls. It’s always nice to know that after we enjoy an award-winning pizza, the next morning (or that evening if we can’t resist) we have wonderful cinnamon rolls for breakfast to look forward to. Organic ingredients go without saying here, you will taste the difference.

The Ingredients:

1 cup unbleached white flour

1 cup stone ground whole wheat flour

1 yeast packet

1 tbsp sugar

3 tbsp olive or safflower oil

1/2 tbsp salt

6 tbsp fresh ground cinnamon

2 tbsp maple syrup or honey

The Dough:

Mix one cup and a half of warm water with 2 tablespoons of dry yeast, a teaspoon of honey, a couple shakes of salt, two tablespoons of olive oil and let it sit until you see bubbles of yeast colonies rising (5 minutes or less).

When the yeast becomes active and rises to the top, then add a cup of white flour and stir to mix. Add more flour until the dough ball becomes powdery on the outside and it will be hard to mix in flour. Now, let the dough rise near heat until it doubles. It needs warm (not hot) heat. This can take 15 minutes to half hour. I turn on the oven (500 degrees) and the dough rises on the stove. When the dough has risen, roll it out on a clean counter on whole wheat flour, and work the whole wheat flour into the dough until it barely stops sticking to your hands or the counter. Roll into a log and flatten out on your bread board or counter top. Sprinkle with half and half sugar-cinnamon mixture. Brown sugar will give it extra flavor. Then I sprinkle liberally with ground fresh cinnamon. Bulk fresh cinnamon will offer deeper, richer flavor and more of the health benefits of cinnamon.

Slice the dough into strips lengthwise with a butter knife, then roll up the individual strips and place in a vegetable-oiled bread pan.

Let the rolls rise on or near your range as the oven heats. Usually they double in size with adequate warm heat. Before they go in the oven, drizzle two tablespoons of maple syrup over the top of the rolls. Cook for 15 minutes at 300 degrees.

If these are not the yummiest healthy cinnamon rolls you have ever tasted, I want to know! Actually I also want to know if you find success with yours too! If you like this recipe be sure to check out our other recipes in our Foodies category and buy our products for living gently!