Cinnamon Buns - Dairy and Egg Free, Vegan

Cinnamon Buns - Dairy and Egg Free, Vegan 

Cinnamon Rolls Dairy and Egg Free, Vegan
https://youtu.be/0wKA-XDctio

My kitchen smells heavenly and these cinnamon rolls are amazingly delicious!!

You will need:

Step 1-

1/2 cup milk beverage ( I used almond milk)

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1 1/2 tsps salt

1/4 cup shortening ( I used Crisco - all vegetable shortening) 

Scald the milk and then stir in the sugar, salt and shortening.  Set aside and let cool to lukewarm.

Step 2-

In a bowl measure:

1/2 cup lukewarm water

Stir in 2 tsps sugar

Sprinkle with 2 envelopes active dry yeast and stir

Let stand 10 minutes or until foamy then stir well.

Step 3:

In your stand mixer with dough hook, (you don’t need a stand mixer....you can do this by hand)

Add your lukewarm milk mixture to the yeast mixture

Add 2 cups sifted flour. Stir until smooth, then add 1 1/4 cups more sifted flour and stir until well incorporated and dough has formed a ball.

Place well kneaded dough into a greased bowl. Brush top of dough with melted vegan margarine, shortening or vegetable oil

Cover and let rise in warm oven for 2 hours until dough has risen. 

Punch down and turn onto floured board.

Step 4:

Cut the dough in half and roll out each half into 9 x 12 rectangles

Brush generously with melted margarine and sprinkle each rectangle with half of brown sugar mixture:

1 cup lightly packed brown sugar

2 tsps ground cinnamon 

I also added about 3/4 chopped walnuts and pecans. You can add plumped up raisins as well. Just soak them in warm water for half an hour first.

Roll up starting from short end. Seal edges and cut into 8 equal pieces, about 1 inch wide.

Place cut side up into lightly greased glass baking dish - 9 x 12 or any rectangular baking dish.

Brush  tops with melted margarine

Cover and let rise for about an hour

Bake in 350 F oven for about 30 to 35 minutes

Step 5: Almost done............

If desired, once cooled you can frost with:

1 cup sifted icing sugar

1/4 tsp vanilla

Stir in enough milk beverage to make it a drizzling consistency.

Start by adding a tsp of milk at a time. Stir and add more until it’s just how you like it!!

Enjoy!!