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- Hey, what's up, everybody?
It's your girl, Merle, and today,
we're going to be making two different kinds
of vegan cinnamon rolls.
Whether you've got five minutes, or you've got five hours,
we've got some delicious
vegan cinnamon roll recipes for you.
Let's get started.
So we're gonna start out
by doing our five-minute vegan cinnamon roll,
and you probably guessed it.
We're gonna be making it
in the microwave. (bell dings)
So you wanna grab a microwave safe mug,
and we're gonna start by making our icing.
We're gonna add some powdered sugar,
and mix in a little bit of non-dairy milk.
We will whisk that up together
until it comes together, and you're able to drizzle it.
Just make sure you add the non-dairy milk very slowly,
using only a little bit at a time,
because it can go from zero to 100 just like that.
Now we've got our icing all whipped up,
and it's time to make the vegan cinnamon rolls.
So I've got a medium bowl here,
and I'm gonna start by adding in some flour, sugar,
baking powder, salt, and non-dairy milk.
I'm just gonna use a fork to mix that together,
so it's no longer dry.
Then I'll start bringing the dough together with my hands,
and knead it like one or two times,
and just flatten it into a disk.
Basically, we wanna form a flat little disc
with our dough.
We just wanna make sure there are no dry spots left.
So also, I'm gonna quickly toss together my brown sugar
and my cinnamon for filling.
I'm just gonna use a fork to toss those together.
Now I'm gonna set that aside,
and we're gonna lightly flour our surface here.
I'm going to roll out our dough
until we get like a six-inch rectangle.
Then I'm gonna take a sharp knife,
and I'm just gonna go around the edges,
so that it looks like more of a rectangle.
Don't worry. We're not gonna waste these.
We're gonna put them right back on here,
and just flatten them onto our cinnamon roll,
'cause it doesn't matter if the inside doesn't look pretty.
We're not gonna see that part.
Now we're gonna take a little bit of water,
and just gently press on our cinnamon roll.
That way, our cinnamon sugar mixture
has something to stick to,
and it'll help to seal up our cinnamon roll.
When we go to, you know, rolling.
♪ Rolling, rolling, rolling ♪
All right.
Now I'm gonna take my brown cinnamon sugar mixture,
and I'm gonna sprinkle that over half of my rectangle here.
And make sure you go right up to the edge.
All right, now it's time to roll it up.
Now I'm gonna just fold my rectangle in half, like so,
and now I'm going to roll it right up.
Just takes blind confidence. It's gonna be great.
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Oh, we've got our adorable little cinnamon roll.
Now I've got a mug,
and I'm going to spray it with a non-stick cooking spray.
I'm gonna place my little cinnamon roll in there,
and I'm just gonna drizzle a half a teaspoon
of water over the dough.
Now it's time to microwave this
for about 75 to 90 seconds on high.
And that's it.
You could honestly just take this,
and put it in your cup holder in your car,
and eat it as a delicious little breakfast on the go.
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Mmm.
Now you have a vegan cinnamon roll in five minutes.
Let's go on to make a vegan cinnamon roll in five hours.
The first thing we need to do is to make our dough.
So I'm gonna take this big bowl,
and I'm gonna add in some non-dairy milk.
It should be warm to the touch,
some unsalted, melted vegan butter,
and some organic cane sugar.
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Then I'm gonna put in some active dry yeast,
and I'm gonna let that sit for about a minute.
Then we're gonna add in some all-purpose flour,
and I'm just gonna use a wooden spoon
to stir that up until it's combined.
Then I'm gonna cover that up,
and I'm gonna let it sit in a warm spot for about an hour,
and it should pretty much double in size.
After the dough has finished rising,
we're gonna add a little bit more flour,
some salt, and some baking powder.
And then we're gonna just mix that up.
And then we're gonna turn it out
onto a lightly floured surface.
And I'm just gonna knead the dough lightly.
And I'll obviously add more flour if I need to,
as I'm going along.
Basically, we just want the dough to lose its stickiness,
so it doesn't stick to the surface anymore.
Then I'm gonna roll the dough out into a large rectangle.
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In the meantime, I'm going to make my filling,
and I'm just gonna mix together some vegan butter,
brown sugar, and cinnamon.
Then I'm gonna spread the filling all the way
across my rectangle of dough,
completely evenly and out to all of the edges.
Then I'm just gonna divide this into four long strips,
and I'm gonna start with the first one,
rolling it up into a neat little cinnamon roll.
Then I'm gonna place my cinnamon roll on the next strip.
I'm gonna roll that up.
I'm gonna do that all the way down the line,
until I've got one giant cinnamon roll.
Just as a heads up, this part sucks.
There's no way around it.
It sucks. It's so hard.
It's messy. It's stressful.
It looks ugly.
And it feels like everything is falling apart,
but we're not gonna panic.
We're gonna scoop it up.
Ooh, baby.
Put you in a cast iron pan.
Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo.
So stressful.
This is great. We're having a great time.
I have this cast iron pan smothered in vegan butter.
I'm gonna let this little
(monster growls) demon baby rest in here
for about 30 minutes.
I'm gonna cover it in some plastic wrap,
and let it rise a bit more.
It's gonna expand,
and it'll start to fill out the entire pan,
but my God, you better be delicious,
because that was so stressful!
Don't say I didn't warn you.
So one thing you can do, if you need to find a warm spot
for your dough to rise is to just put it right
on top of the oven, and preheat the oven in the meantime
to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. (bell dings)
That's 160 degrees Celsius.
Then I'm gonna uncover my cinnamon roll,
and I'm gonna bake that for 45 minutes.
After that, I'm just gonna cover my cinnamon roll
with some foil, so it doesn't burn around the edges,
and bake for an additional 35 minutes.
And we're not gonna stop there.
In the meantime,
we're gonna make our coffee cake crumble for the top.
In the medium bowl,
I'm gonna combine some melted vegan butter,
brown sugar, flour,
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cinnamon, and I'm just gonna use a fork to mix this together
until it's completely combined.
Now I'm just gonna go in there with my hands,
and I'm gonna crumble up my crumble.
And so I have a variety of different sized crumbles.
So I've got some little ones,
I've got some big ones, and I'm gonna put these over
onto a prepared baking sheet.
And we're just gonna bake those all
for about 10 to 12 minutes.
Once they're done, I'm gonna let them cool off completely.
Now we need to make our icing.
You're probably starting to figure out
why this is five hours.
A lot of steps.
To keep up our coffee cake theme,
we're going to mix together some powdered sugar
and cold brew coffee until it's nice and smooth.
Then we're gonna remove our giant cinnamon roll
from the oven, and let that cool for at least 20 minutes.
Then we can drizzle our icing over the top,
and add our coffee cake crumble, and voila!
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Isn't she so beautiful?
After all this work, it's finally time
for us to try our giant cinnamon roll.
I just, let's say I've earned this at this point.
Mmm.
It looks like it's a lot of the dough,
the dough is moist from the vegan butter,
and cinnamon, and the sugar.
This has more of a kek.
This has more of a cake-like texture to it.
It's delicious.
Oh, yum.
There you have it, folks.
I gave you a vegan cinnamon roll in five minutes,
and I gave you one in five hours.
Now look at this thing. I mean, it's a beast.
Lucky you, lucky me.
I'm the only one here right now.
So let me know what you'd like me to make next,
and thank you so much for watching.
Mwah!
(wind whistles)
That was supposed to be a parachute,
not like a window, not morbid, not like, okay.
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