[lauren] snickle!
[lauren] hey everyone it's lauren from hot for food and today we're gonna make something special for mother's day.
[lauren] it's coming up this weekend so i thought i would show you how to make
[lauren] vegan cinnamon rolls.
[lauren] it's very easy to whip up the dough and the rolls the night before. leave them in the fridge.
[lauren] and then bake them on sunday morning and your mum can awake to the scent
[lauren] of cinnamon rolls filling the house.
[lauren] so we're gonna start by making the dough!
[lauren] so i have a cup of water here that's hot, umm you can either get warm water from your tap
[lauren] or i just had like my instant hot water so i'm just gonna stir it
[lauren] let it get down to about a 100F
[lauren] that is the temperature of the water that you're gonna need for your active dry yeast.
[lauren] so you can buy these yeast packets at the grocery store, they're already pre measured.
[lauren] you're gonna use one packet, and dump it into the water once it's a 100F
[lauren] and then add a quarter cup of sugar.
[lauren] so you're gonna let the sugar, water and yeast sit for ten minutes and it's gonna foam up.
[lauren] if it's too hot, what's gonna happen is you're gonna kill your yeast,
[lauren] and it won't foam up and it won't rise the dough.
[lauren] now, everyone's gonna ask "do i have to add sugar?"
[lauren] yes, you have to add sugar because that's what activates the yeast.
[lauren] if you don't do that, it's not gonna do anything.
[lauren] so measure out three cups of flour,
[lauren] alright, and then stir in a teaspoon of salt.
[lauren] once you have this stirred together, just make a little well in the bottom like this, it's where you're gonna pour the liquid.
[lauren] so now we'll add that to the flour.
[lauren] and then add your melted coconut oil.
[lauren] so now you're gonna fold this together until it's just mixed. and then knead it together with your hands.
[lauren] okay and then once you feel like it's sticky, just take it all and put it onto the counter,
[lauren] and then you're only gonna knead it a few times until it looks like it's well mixed and it's sticky.
[lauren] so once it's a ball of dough, just take a little bit of coconut oil,
[lauren] i have some leftover in the pot i melted in.
[lauren] and just oil the bowl lightly, so that the dough doesn't stick.
[lauren] and then you're gonna take your ball of dough and place it in the bowl,
[lauren] cover it with plastic and a tea towel and you're gonna let this proof for two hours.
[lauren] i put mine in the oven, but you can put it in a cupboard or top of the fridge.
[lauren] don't turn your oven on, it's just like not room temperature.
[lauren] when you're ready to make the filling and roll out your dough you're gonna melt two tablespoons of coconut oil.
[lauren] and then mix together a quarter cup of sugar with a tablespoon of cinnamon.
[lauren] and here it is! so it should double in size,
[lauren] you're just gonna remove it from this bowl,
[lauren] and it won't stick cos you oiled it.
[lauren] and then place it on a lightly floured surface.
[lauren] and have a good large working surface like this,
[lauren] so you're gonna flour your rolling pin so it doesn't stick.
[lauren] and just start rolling this out.
[lauren] this dough's actually very easy to work with, it should be soft.
[lauren] so you just wanna go lengthwise and forward and backwards so you could try to get this into a square.
[lauren] as best as possible.
[lauren] anyway just make sure it doesn't stick by putting some flour underneath like this,
[lauren] okay so this could even be vegan butter or margarine instead of coconut oil
[lauren] so leave one inch clean without oil or sugar because when we roll this,
[lauren] that's gonna be the outside edge that will stick to the outside of the roll.
[lauren] okay so you can be generous with this but make sure you use all of it.
[lauren] get it as evenly as you can across the surface.
[lauren] so try to roll this pretty tightly
[lauren] i like baking mine in a cast iron skillet cos it looks cool.
[lauren] in photos but you can bake it in a pan
[lauren] umm, whatever you wanna do
[lauren] and you're gonna lightly oil it with coconut oil, or vegan butter or margarine.
[lauren] it's easiest to cut the full log in half, and then each half is six pieces.
[lauren] okay so these don't have to be perfectly even or whatever doesn't really matter,
[lauren] just leave some space, they're gonna rise and get bigger.
[lauren] here's the thing, at this phase, let it proof for two hours then put it in the fridge if you wanna bake them the next day.
[lauren] and then they look like this after they've proofed.
[lauren] so now you're gonna bake them for 25-30 minutes at 350F
[lauren] the recipe i've linked in the description shows you how to make the cinnamon rolls,
[lauren] and there's a vanilla frosting recipe there as well.
[lauren] but today i'm gonna show you how to make a caramel sauce
[lauren] and we're gonna put pecans on the top as well.
[lauren] the caramel's super easy, we're just gonna heat up sugar, non dairy milk, vegan butter and salt
[lauren] for 7-8 minutes until it thickens up into a caramel sauce like this.
[lauren] i used coconut sugar for this, but you could use brown sugar or even just raw, cane sugar
[lauren] it's fine. i used vegan butter because that's kinda what caramel is,
[lauren] i honestly don't know if coconut oil would work or not.
[lauren] i also just toasted some pecans in the oven with the cinnamon rolls
[lauren] and we're gonna chop those up for the topping
[lauren] there they are. our cinnamon rolls with caramel and pecans
[lauren] these look so good!
[lauren] and they're still warm,
[lauren] so i must do the taste test now.
[lauren] no, my mother is not here. why am i using a fork and knife?
[lauren] ow, my teeth.
[lauren] they're good, these are a good mother's day idea for sure.
[lauren] mm!
[lauren] specifically my mum really likes cinnamon rolls.
[lauren] we used to make them all the time, growing up. except we would use the kind that you bought, like
[lauren] already in the freezer. so she likes these ones,
[lauren] i'll be making them again on sunday because now i have three dozen batches of cinnamon rolls cos
[lauren] obviously i like, premade all of the dough so we didn't have to sit around for hours waiting for it to proof
[lauren] definitely do all that work the day before. do that on saturday and on sunday just bake them,
[lauren] add the caramel, and the pecans and you're done.
[lauren] so addictive.
[lauren] alright, happy mother's day everybody and to all the mums out there, thank you!
[lauren] thanks for watching, we'll be back next wednesday with another recipe here on hot for food
[lauren] and if you do make these or anything else,
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[lauren] and uhh we'll see you guys soon! bye!