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30 Jul Sticky Pecan Cinnamon Rolls

Who doesn’t love cinnamon rolls? Anyone…? quiet… That’s what I thought! Everyone loves cinnamon rolls including those who can’t eat gluten. The store bought gluten free cinnamon rolls are a joke. They’re dry and dry and dry and dry. Yep, they’re dry. The gluten free cinnamon roll needs a makeover and today I’m giving you a recipe for a gluten free and vegan sticky pecan cinnamon roll. Since they’re vegan they’re both dairy free and egg free which means that practically everyone can eat them. And I made a video for you! My sister helped me film it and I hope that it makes it easier to follow along with the recipe.

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Pecan Cinnamon Rolls {Gluten Free} {Vegan}

Pecan Cinnamon Rolls {Gluten Free} {Vegan}

Ingredients

  • Wet ingredients
  • 3/4 cups (180 ml) non dairy milk
  • 1/2 cup (120 ml) water
  • 1/2 tsp freshly ground cardamom
  • 12 g fresh yeast
  • 2 tbsp flax seeds
  • 2 tbsp psyllium husk
  • 4 tbsp coconut oil
  • 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • Dry Ingredients
  • 1 cup buckwheat flour
  • 1 cup brown rice flour
  • 1/2 cup potato starch
  • 1/2 cup corn starch
  • 3 tbsp raw cane sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • Cinnamon filling
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup raw cane sugar (or granulated sugar)
  • 2 tbsp coconut oil
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • pinch of sea salt
  • Sticky glaze
  • 1/4 cup coconut oil
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup roughly chopped pecans

Instructions

  1. Heat the water, non dairy milk and freshly ground cardamom in a sauce pan to 38°C/100°F. Crumble the fresh yeast into the sauce pan and whisk until the yeast is completely dissolved.
  2. Mix flax seeds and psyllium husk in a high speed blender or coffee grinder and add to the liquid mixture along with the coconut oil and apple cider vinegar. Whisk until all lumps are gone and set aside to let it thicken for 5 minutes.
  3. Mix all of the dry ingredients in a big bowl. Make a pit in the flour and pour in the wet ingredients. Start combining the ingredients with a wooden spoon until it’s mixed enough to start kneading.(It will look kinda scrappy but that's how it should be.) Kneed the dough with your hands in the bowl for awhile and then transfer it to the counter and continue kneading the dough until it's all smooth and all the crumbles are incorporated in the dough.
  4. Place the dough on a piece of parchment paper and roll out to a large rectangle. It should be at least 1/4” (*3*) mm thick.
  5. Mix all the ingredients for the cinnamon sugar filling in a bowl and spread on top of the dough.
  6. Use the parchment paper to tightly roll up the dough. Cut of the edges and divide the roll into 8 pieces.
  7. In a pan of your choice combine the coconut oil, brown sugar and chopped pecans. Put the cinnamon rolls on top. Cover with a kitchen towel and allow to rise for 1 hour in a non-drafty, warm place. The rolls should now be touching each other in the pan.
  8. Preheat your oven to 190°C/375°F.
  9. Bake in the middle of the oven for 18 min. Place the pan on a wire rack to let cool for a minute. Then place a platter on top and quickly flip the pan 180°. Gently lift off the pan.

Notes

When I made these rolls for the shoot I didn't have enough brown sugar for the sticky glaze so I had to use raw cane sugar. That's why they don't look as sticky as they will if you use brown sugar.

Will keep in the fridge in an airtight container for three days.

Recipe adapted from Forks and Beans

8 Comments
  • Our Food Stories
    Posted at 10:02h, 01 August

    looks so delicious!! would love to have it for breakfast now 😀
    xx
    laura&nora

    • Thea
      Posted at 19:00h, 02 August

      Thanks 😀

  • Karen S
    Posted at 02:32h, 09 September

    You have cardamon in instructions but not in your ingredients. These look so good! Would like to make them for my sister who has celiac.

    • Thea
      Posted at 07:01h, 09 September

      Thanks for noticing that! I’ll change it immediately. 🙂

  • Astra Tenborg
    Posted at 05:20h, 22 January

    Your recipe looks great! I have a question about your buckwheat flour. Are you using dark buckwheat or is it light? I can only find dark buckwheat in the stores. Do you know if there is a flavor difference between the two?

    Thanks!!

    • Thea Tillberg
      Posted at 12:28h, 22 January

      In this recipe I use light buckwheat flour which is hulled buckwheat groats. Dark buckwheat flour is made from unhulled buckwheat groats. You can think of it as whole vs white wheat flour. The dark buckwheat flour doesn’t give as light and airy baked goods as the light so I wouldn’t use dark buckwheat flour in this recipe. Hope this helps! 🙂

  • Victoria Jackson
    Posted at 04:13h, 09 May

    Love your recipes! Quick question: can I use sourdough starter instead of the yeast?

    • Thea Tillberg
      Posted at 13:56h, 25 June

      It’s difficult to just convert a recipe to sourdough and I don’t think the flavors would be nice together, gluten free sourdough tends to be better with savory breads but you could always give it a try! 🙂