Brigitte editor reveals
This is my favorite recipe for the world’s best (vegan) cinnamon rolls
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One of the best things about fall and winter? CINNAMON ROLLS! Sure, you can eat them all year round, but they taste best when they come warm out of the oven and it’s cold and disgusting outside. And best of all, baked according to this recipe, our author swears.
For the dough:
275 ml soy drink vanilla
60 g butter (or as a vegan alternative, plant-based margarine)
500g flour
50g sugar
1 pinch of salt
½ cube of fresh yeast
For the filling
100 g soft butter (or as a vegan alternative, plant-based margarine)
70 g cane sugar
3 tsp cinnamon
For the frosting
70 g (vegan) cream cheese
1 tbsp softened butter
1 tbsp (heaped) powdered sugar
If necessary, a little more vanilla soy drink
That’s how it works:
1. Make dough:
- Heat vanilla soy drink in a small saucepan, add butter and let it melt. Then remove from the heat and let cool slightly.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the remaining dry ingredients and crumble in the yeast.
- Add the lukewarm soy drink-butter mixture and knead everything into a smooth dough using a dough hook.
- Cover and let the dough rise in a warm place for about 45 minutes.
2. Prepare filling:
- Beat butter, raw sugar and cinnamon with a mixer and set aside
3. Roll out and curl up
- Grease a casserole dish or round baking dish and preheat the oven to 180 °C top/bottom heat
- Flour the work surface.
- Roll out the dough into a square (approx. 30 * 40 cm) and spread the filling onto the dough with a spoon.
- Roll up the dough and cut both ends straight
- Cut the roll of dough into about twelve snails with a sharp knife, place it in the mold and let it rest for another 30 minutes.
- Then bake for about 25 minutes.
4. The frosting
- Remove the cinnamon rolls from the oven and let them cool slightly.
- During this time, mix all the ingredients for the frosting. If it is too thick, add soy drink until the consistency is creamy but not too runny.
- Spread over the cinnamon rolls and enjoy while still warm