Eggless Whole Wheat Cinnamon Rolls With Vanilla Bean And Coffee Icing
Author: Vindhya Desai
Recipe type: Snack
Cuisine: American
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Serves: 15-16, 1" rolls
- 250 ml whole milk or 1 Cup
- ¼ Cup oil (sunflower/vegetable)
- ¼ Cup sugar
- 1½ Tsp yeast (1/2 Pkt active dry yeast)
- 1½ Cups whole wheat flour (atta)
- ¼ Tsp baking soda
- ½ Tsp baking powder
- ½ Cup melted butter or as required
- ½ Cup sugar
- Cinnamon to sprinkle
- 1 Tsp salt
- ¼ Cup powdered sugar
- 2 Tbsp fresh strong coffee
- 1 or 2 Tbsp milk
- 1 Tsp vanilla bean paste or pod
- 2 Tbsp melted butter
- A big pinch of salt
- In a pan, add milk and sugar
- Pour in oil and whisk milk, sugar and oil together
- Keep the pan on low heat and whisk. Let it scald (turn off before it starts boiling)
- Turn off heat, let it cool. Mix all dry ingredients except yeast, keep aside
- Once milk cools down a bit and becomes warm, sprinkle in yeast. Mix lightly. Keep aside for 5 minutes
- Now add dry ingredients slowly to milk mixture. Reserve about half a cup to be added later
- Mix slowly into a sticky dough. Set aside for an hour in warm place and let it rise
- Add reserved flour, knead well for 3-4 minutes and set it aside to rise again for half hour or so
- To make filling, melt butter slowly
- Keep melted butter, cinnamon powder and sugar together
- Knead dough again. Cut into half and reserve it or make more cinnamon rolls. Just get little more filling ready :)
- Pat dough into a rough rectangle shape
- Roll slowly trying to keep it rectangular into a ½ Cm thick rectangle
- Next comes the wild part, brush butter all over the rolled dough. Be generous
- Sprinkle sugar all over covering entire surface area
- Sprinkle cinnamon all over
- To roll this, start with edge which is away from you
- Roll with the roll starting to roll towards you
- Lastly push the near edge over the roll and seal
- Turn the roll seam side down, pat all over to seal. Do not press it
- To cut into rolls, make 1" thick marks on the roll
- Cut with a sharp knife or a dough scraper into rolls
- Arrange rolls in baking tin or sandwich tin. Let it rise for half an hour. Pre-heat oven to 180 Deg C
- Once rolls have risen, brush all over with plain melted butter. Bake at 180 Deg C for 15 minutes till they turn golden brown. Keep and eye on them
- While rolls are baking, make vanilla bean and coffee icing. Add powdered sugar in a bowl
- Drizzle in 1 Tbsp milk and freshly brewed coffee
- Pour melted butter and add scraped out vanilla caviar or use vanilla bean paste or just good vanilla essence
- Whisk well and add a big pinch of salt. Whisk well
- Bring to a light boil till icing thickens a bit, add little more milk if required
- Once hot rolls come out of the oven, pour vanilla bean and coffee icing all over. Don't leave out any roll
- Serve with coffee or just as a snack
Use good vanilla only
Use maida or all purpose flour if you want
Use fresh cinnamon powder for true fragrance
Use unsalted butter only
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/eggless-whole-wheat-cinnamon-rolls/
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