Cinnabon’s aren’t the definition of ‘health’.

But, I wanted to devise a recipe which was just as yummy, but didn’t use up half my daily caloric intake (the average cinnabon has 880 calories).

When my cinnabon craving first hit, I was scrolling through recipes that take about 3 hours to prepare and bake. That was simply too long and I knew I had to find a cheaters quick version.

So, here’s the cheat sheet to my 45 minute, Plant Based Cinnabons:

Dough: 

• 2.75 cups of all purpose flour
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 package instant yeast = 2.25 teaspoons
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/4 cup almond milk
• 2 tbsp coconut oil
• 1 tbsp ground chia seeds + 3 tbsp water

Filling:

• 0.5 cup pureed dates (1/4 cup water)
• 1/2 tbsp cinnamon
• 1/4 cup chopped almonds
• 1 medium apple finely chopped
• coconut oil as a base

Time: 45 minutes, Serves: 8, Calories: 294 each

Method: 

• Preheat oven to 100C
• Mix flour, sugar, salt and yeast in a bowl
• Heat water, almond milk and coconut oil in the microwave for 30 seconds
• Add chia seeds, milk/oil mixture and flour mixture together and knead with hands until dough forms – set aside for 5 minutes
• Roll out the dough on baking paper into a rectangle

• Spread the coconut oil and pureed dates on the rolled out dough
• Sprinkle the apple and almonds on top

• Roll the dough into a log, and cut into 8 even segments

• Put each segment into greased baking tins.

• Put into the oven, and turn the oven off. Leave in rolls there for 20 minutes. Then, turn the oven to 200C and bake for 20 mins.

• Dust with icing sugar to serve.

Let me know how it goes! xx