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04 Oct Apple Cinnamon Rolls

Some facts.

  1. It’s autumn.
  2. I wanted to make cinnamon rolls.
  3. I always want to eat make cinnamon rolls
  4. I have an apple tree in my garden.
  5. It’s the official cinnamon roll day in Sweden today!

 

I had no choice but to make gluten free apple cinnamon rolls.

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I could talk about cinnamon rolls for hours and hours and hours. If I had to choose only one pastry(does cinnamon rolls count as pastries?) to eat for the rest of my life it would be cinnamon rolls. But if I had to choose between pastries and Ice cream I would always choose ice cream, even over cinnamon rolls. Always.

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Since I’m swedish I had to make swedish style gluten free apple cinnamon rolls. Swedish cinnamon rolls = pearl sugar sprinkled on top, baked separately and not all squeezed together in a baking pan and no cream cheese frosting. Otherwise they would be american cinnamon rolls.

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Look, a mountain of cinnamon rolls! Make these and you can make your own cinnamon roll mountain. 🙂

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Notes:

  • Eat the cinnamon rolls while still warm or let cool and store in the freezer.
  • You can make your own oat flour by mixing rolled oats in a food processor.
  • These can easily be “healthified” by substituting the sugar with honey, raw cane sugar, coconut sugar or any other unrefined sweetener.
Gluten Free Apple Cinnamon Rolls

Gluten Free Apple Cinnamon Rolls

Ingredients

    LIQUID
  • 200 g warm water(50°C/120°F)
  • 1 tsp active dry yeast
  • 30 g(1/3 stick) butter
  • 1 tsp freshly ground cardamom
  • 150 g milk
  • 25 g psyllium husk
  • DRY
  • 60 g of each: cornstarch, potato starch, sorghum flour, oat flour, brown rice flour
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • FILLING
  • 50 g soft butter
  • 2 1/2 tbsp sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla powder
  • 100 g grated apple(1 apple), squeeze out excess water with your hands
  • -
  • (1 egg + pearl sugar)

Instructions

  1. Mix warm water and active dry yeast in a small bowl and set aside 5-10 min.
  2. In a small sauce pan melt the butter and then add the milk and freshly ground cardamom and take off the heat.
  3. In a big bowl whisk together the yeast mixture, the milk mix and psyllium husk until a thick gel forms, about 2 min.
  4. In a separate bowl mix together all of the dry ingredients.
  5. Add the dry ingredients to the big bowl and mix together with an electric hand mixer with dough hooks. The dough will now look scattered and crumbly but that’s ok! Start kneading the dough in the bowl with your hands and then tip it out on a clean worktop. Continue kneading the dough until it comes together into a smooth and even dough, takes about 2 min.
  6. Place the dough in a clean bowl and cover with cling film. Place in a warm and non drafty space and allow to rise for 1 1/2 hour.
  7. Preheat your oven to 250°C/480°F.
  8. Roll out your dough on a floured surface to a 35 cm*25cm(14*10 inches) rectangle.
  9. Mix together the ingredients for the filling with a fork and spread onto the dough. Roll together the dough and divide it into 12 pieces.
  10. Line a muffin pan with muffin liners and place the rolls in the cups. (Or place the muffin liners directly on a baking sheet)
  11. Allow to rise for another 30 min.
  12. Brush the rolls with a whisked egg and sprinkle pearl sugar on top.
  13. Bake in the oven on 250°C/480°F for 2-3 min and then lower the temperature to 190°C/375°F and bake another 8-10min.
  14. Let cool on a wire rack for a few minutes and eat while still warm.

 

13 Comments
  • josefinetm
    Posted at 16:51h, 04 October

    Happy cinnamon roll day! I really wish we had such a day in Denmark. But I’ve decided to participate anyway 😉 I wish I’d seen this post before I made my own rolls, because as delicious as the ones I made were, they would never beat these. I mean – they are gluten free… What else is there to ask for? 😉 Looks so delicious!!

    • Thea
      Posted at 17:09h, 04 October

      Thanks Josefine! it’s always so nice to hear from you. I know, gluten free cinnamon rolls beat everything!

  • Thalia @ butter and brioche
    Posted at 02:41h, 05 October

    I wish I had one of these apple cinnamon rolls to devour right now. They look SO incredibly delicious. Pinned!

    • Thea
      Posted at 09:12h, 05 October

      Thanks Thalia! 🙂

  • Amanda
    Posted at 20:55h, 05 October

    I love that you made this the Swedish way and not in a pan 🙂 They look delicious. I’m trying to get over my fear of baking with yeast, and I think this might just make me try again!

    • Thea
      Posted at 07:13h, 06 October

      Just go for it! Yeast is incredible 🙂

  • Christine l My Natural Kitchen
    Posted at 03:35h, 06 October

    What gorgeous cinnamon rolls! I agree, if I could only ever have one type of pastry forever, I’d choose cinnamon rolls too!

    • Thea
      Posted at 07:13h, 06 October

      Thanks Christine!That makes us two 🙂

  • Lilli @ Sugar and Cinnamon
    Posted at 09:58h, 12 October

    Your photos are so beautiful! And these look delicious 🙂

    • Thea
      Posted at 10:24h, 12 October

      Thank you Lilli! 🙂

  • renee (will frolic for food)
    Posted at 02:40h, 07 November

    weelllll this is insanely gorgeous. this recipe looks great! I’ll have to try this over the weekend. Seriously, you’re doing a brilliant job!

    • Thea
      Posted at 07:16h, 10 November

      Thanks Renee! means a lot hearing that from you! 🙂

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