- Hi, friends.
Happy New Year!
It's Sam, and today I'm gonna start off the new year
with a bang, and I'm gonna show you
how to make my easy vegan cinnamon buns.
Oh, yeah.
That's cinnamon, sugar, delicious, pull-apart dough,
with the frosting on top, and all (smooches) delish.
And of course, as we like it here on this channel,
I hacked up this recipe to make it as easy as possible,
so there is no yeast, there is no kneading.
It takes 10 ingredients only, and at the end,
you are left with these gorgeous homemade cinnamon buns.
They can be made ahead of time and frozen,
and all of that good stuff,
or you can have them straight out of the oven,
making this recipe as easy as possible for you.
Now, I do have some news that I wanna share with you,
but I'll save that for the end of the video,
so make sure you stay tuned 'til the very end
to catch that news, but right now,
I just wanna hop straight into the recipe.
So let's start it, let's get to makin'
my easy vegan cinnamon buns.
Okay, so grab yourself a large bowl, and to this,
I'm gonna add 4 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour.
Flour, everywhere.
To the flour, add two tablespoons of baking powder
and one teaspoon of salt.
Then, just whisk that all together.
In this recipe, I'm using the baking powder
to rise up the dough and make it soft and fluffy
instead of yeast, so just kind of an easier hack,
an easier method, to get a very similar result.
Now, to this, I'm gonna need one cup of vegan butter.
One of the little hacks I like is that
one cup of Earth Balance is actually two cups,
so I'm just gonna cut this right in half,
and then I will have one cup of vegan butter.
Like so.
I'm gonna cut this vegan butter into cubes,
and just drop those little cubes into the flour mixture,
so that we can cut the butter into the flour.
Now, if you don't have a pastry cutter yet
in your collection of kitchen tools,
I will put a link to where you can get one
off of Amazon down below.
They're usually pretty cheap and good to have on hand,
but if you don't have one
and aren't interested in picking one up,
you can use a fork, or two forks, or a couple of knives,
and just kinda literally cut the butter into the flour.
And I'm just using my pastry cutter to run around the bowl,
cutting that butter right into the flour,
until I reach a nice, sandy, kinda grainy texture, like so.
So, that looks good.
And now that I have that grainy texture,
I'm just gonna pour in my non-dairy milk.
Today, I'm using a coconut milk,
'cause that's what I have on hand, but you can use a soy
or an almond, or anything that you prefer.
Now I'm gonna get a spoon
and combine that non-dairy milk into the flour.
Alright, now it's coming together,
but it still isn't completely mixed.
At this point, I wanna get in there with my hands,
so I'm actually gonna clean up
this work surface a little bit,
and just toss it on the counter, so give me a second.
So, you can do this right in the bowl if you prefer,
but I kinda just find it easiest to dump out
this shaggy mess straight onto the counter,
and then I just start combining everything together.
It's gonna seem like it won't really come together at first.
It's pretty dry, but just give it a chance.
It'll come together.
Continually pulling in all of that dry mixture.
Ah, it's getting everywhere.
Almost there.
there, just until all of that loose flour is combined
and the dough comes to a ball.
You don't need to keep kneading it or anything like that.
You just wanna combine it until it forms
a nice, doughy ball, like so. (laughs)
So, now I just wanna let it rest for 10 to 15 minutes.
Allowing it to rest is gonna make the dough
get that kinda stretchy texture,
so that when we bake it, it's gonna have that nice,
pull-apart cinnamon bun texture.
Delicious, so I'm just gonna set this aside
and prepare my cinnamon sugar mixture.
For my cinnamon sugar filling, it's really super easy.
I just melt a quarter cup of vegan butter,
and then, in another bowl, I'm gonna mix together
one cup of brown sugar and one tablespoon of cinnamon.
Whoo, that smells good.
I love cinnamon.
Oh, yeah.
So, I'm just gonna mix that together with a fork,
and that's it, that's my cinnamon sugar filling.
Alrighty, so my dough has rested for 15 minutes,
so I'm going to lightly flour my clean work surface here.
Oh, hi, Chickpea.
Cinnamon buns aren't for dogs.
And now, I'm going to pop my dough on here.
Yeah, a little more flour on top,
and roll out this dough.
Oh, yeah, so soft and lovely, this dough.
(Sam grunts)
I kinda wanna try to keep rolling it
into a rectangle-type shape.
It does not have to be perfect,
but that's what you're kinda aiming for.
I'm aiming for a rectangle that is about 19 by 14.
There we go, so now I've got my melted vegan butter.
I'm just gonna pour that straight on the dough,
and using my pastry brush, I'll spread that all over.
If you don't have a pastry brush,
you can use just the back of a spoon,
or even your fingers if you just wanna get in there.
Anyway you wanna spread the butter will work wonderfully.
Getting it straight to the edges,
'cause you want every last little bite
to be totally scrumptious, delicious, buttery,
delicious cinnamon buns.
Okay, so that's all spread around,
and now, just evenly sprinkle over
your cinnamon sugar mixture,
so I usually just take the whole bowl like this.
Try to spread it.
You can kinda spread it out with your fingers as needed.
Try to make it nice and even
so there's no spaces where deliciousness is missing.
Beautiful.
So now, I'm just gonna start from the side
that's closest to me and roll that way,
just tucking in the ends, nice and tightly.
(playful jazz music)
And then roll it up, pretty easy peasy.
Beautiful.
I'm gonna scoot this guy towards me.
So now, I just wanna take my roll and cut it into 12,
so I'm gonna start by cutting it in half
and cutting those halves in half.
Maybe there.
And then, each one of these sections,
we'll make three rolls, so I like to just score it
a little bit so I can make sure that
they're as even as possible.
You can do this down the whole roll if you like,
and then you can just nicely saw back and forth
to make some gorgeous cinnamon buns.
Take a look at that?
Isn't that pretty, all gorgeous cinnamon swirl in there?
Now, grab yourself a 9x12 baking dish.
I have this one here, and I like to line mine
with a bit of parchment paper, but you could also
just grease it, whatever you prefer,
just to stop the cinnamon rolls from sticking,
and then just pop them straight in the dish,
spreading them out nice and evenly.
For the end bits that kind have the shaggy bums,
just put those shaggy bits bottom side down,
and they'll be fine, they'll blend in right with the rest.
So, there we go, all of my gorgeous cinnamon buns,
ready to bake.
Now, this might seem a bit squishy in here,
but that's exactly what you want.
If there's too much space, there'll be a lot of air
around each cinnamon bun and they'll dry out a little bit
and get a little bit hard.
When they're this way, they'll expand into each other
and get that classic cinnamon bun shape
and stay soft and tender all the way through.
So, I'm gonna pop these in the oven now
for about 24 to 28 minutes at 400 degrees.
While my cinnamon buns are baking,
I'm gonna make my icing.
The icing is totally optional.
If you don't like frosted cinnamon buns,
you don't need to make it,
but I am definitely an icing kinda gal,
so let's get to it.
Very easy to make.
It's just one cup of powdered sugar,
also called icing sugar or confectioner's sugar,
for this recipe, all the same thing,
so whichever one you have will work beautifully.
Two tablespoons of vegan butter.
If your butter is very hard,
you might wanna soften it a wee bit, but don't melt it.
It's not a melted butter kinda thing,
but you just wanna be able to mix it into your sugar.
One teaspoon of vanilla extract.
It looks like I have just enough, whew!
And either three teaspoons of lemon juice or non-dairy milk.
Normally, I go for the lemon juice 'cause I love
the little bit of tang it adds to the frosting.
It's got almost a cream cheese vibe
with that kind of slight tang in there,
but I totally forgot to buy lemons at the grocery store,
so I'm gonna be using a non-dairy milk this time,
which just makes an all-sweet icing.
Now, both ways are totally good,
but you know, it's whatever you prefer.
So, three teaspoons of non-dairy milk or lemon juice,
and then just mix that together.
Really simple, that's your icing, that's it.
Whoo, try not to fluff the sugar everywhere.
So, there you go, there is my frosting, my icing,
whatever you wanna call it.
Ooh.
That's kinda delicious and gross all at the same time.
Alright, my cinnamon buns are out of the oven now,
and smelling amazing.
You can see that they have risen up
they're nice and fluffy and very lightly golden brown
just around the edges.
I've let them rest for about 10 minutes,
but they're still nice and warm,
so I'm gonna put on the frosting now
so that it kind of melts into the buns a little bit.
I'm just gonna kinda randomly spread this frosting around.
It'll kind of melt into all those crevices
and become super delicious and gooey, just love it, yeah.
One of the things I love about this is kind of
the messier it is, the better it looks.
You just wanna dive right in there, and there we go,
homemade frosted cinnamon buns, delicious.
So excited, I've gotta try one immediately.
Just going for this big daddy right here.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, let's give this cinnamon bun a try.
Oh, it's so warm and soft.
Check that out, the layers are peeling off.
(moans) That is good.
Delicious.
Icing, it's so good, so good.
Why's this so good?
Okay, now this is like dangerously good.
The layers pull apart just like they're supposed to.
That cinnamon sugar filling,
it's flaky and tender and super moist.
That icing on there is the perfect little sweet touch
that makes it just sing deliciousness.
Oh yeah, I am loving these cinnamon rolls.
Now, as always, I'll pop a link to the full recipe
down below in the description and one up here as well,
so if you decide to make this recipe,
it's all written out nicely for you there.
Now, as for the news, for 2019,
I am working on a lot of exciting, fun projects
that I cannot wait to share with you guys.
I can't tell you right now, but I promise to share the news
as soon as I can.
Now, that does mean that I'm gonna be super duper busy,
so unfortunately, I'm not gonna be able to post a video
every single week like I did in 2018,
but I will still be posting videos,
just not as consistently,
so make sure that you don't miss a single video.
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whenever I do post a new video.
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whenever I next post it.
I'll see you soon.
Bon appetegan!
(chicken clucks)
Chickpea, do you like cinnamon buns?
Do you like cinnamon buns?
Cinnamon buns aren't for you.
No, they're not for you, sorry, bud,
but you can have a dog treat.
You want a treat?
There you go.