Vegan Puff Pastry Apple Cinnamon Rolls
Recipe for fluffy vegan apple cinnamon rolls made out of homemade puff pastry, just the right amount of cinnamon and some icing on top.
Ingredients
Puff Pastry
- 150 g T45 flour
- 150 g T55 flour
- 6 g salt
- 45 g sugar
- 15 g fresh yeast or 5 g dried yeast
- 145 g vegan milk (soy milk)
- 60 g vegan butter
- 150 g vegan butter, 82% fat
Apple Cinnamon Filling
- 2-3 apples
- 70 g vegan butter
- 100 g brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 vanilla bean
Icing
- 250 g icing sugar
- lemon juice/water
Instructions
Puff Pastry
- Add the T45 flour, T55 flour, salt, sugar, yeast, vegan milk and the first amount of butter (60 g) into your mixing bowl.
- Mix for 3 minutes on low speed to combine your ingredients. After, keep on mixing for 7-9 minutes on medium speed. Stop the machine when you can easily stretch your dough and you have a beautiful glutinous net.
- Shape your dough into a ball, cover it with cling film and let it sit at room temperature for 35-45 minutes.
- Take a piece of parchment paper and fold it into a 15 x 30 cm (6'' x 12'') rectangle. Also prepare a 15 x 15 cm (6'' x 6'') rectangle out of parchment paper as well. Have a look the video or the photos above to understand better that step.
- Now, take the second amount of vegan butter (150 g) and place it inside your 15 x 15 cm (6'' x 6'') parchment paper rectangle. Close it and roll the butter into all the corners. Your butter might have to soften a bit before. Once this step is done, put the butter back in the fridge
- Once your dough has risen, place it inside your 15 x 30 cm (6'' x 12'') parchment paper rectangle. Now flatten it by pressing it down with your hands. You want to remove all the air that is inside of your dough.Then close your rectangle and push your dough into all the corners. You want this to be as even as possible. At this step, don't worry if the dough doesn't stay perfectly in the corners. After, place the dough into the freezer for 10 minutes.
- Take out the chilled dough and the butter. If necessary, roll the dough into the corners. Place the dough rectangle in front of you. Place your butter rectangle on one of the sides of your dough rectangle. Then, using a knife, cut your dough in the middle. Place the other half of your dough on top of the butter. You now have a square sandwich of dough - butter - dough.
- Roll out your dough to a length of around 60 cm (24''). Remove any excess flour on top of your dough and do a double fold. If you are unfamiliar with this step, check out my video or the description above.
- Put your puff pastry in the freezer for 5-10 minutes.
- Then, cut open the two folded sides of your dough. These should be left and right of you, meaning that one of the open sides is facing you (see image 14).Roll out your dough to around 40 cm (16''), then do a single fold. Now, put the dough into the fridge for at least one hour for it to relax.
- Prepare the Apple Cinnamon Filling in the meantime.
Apple Cinnamon Filling
- Slightly heat the butter in the microwave until soft. Add the sugar and cinnamon and mix everything well.
- Peel your apples, cut them into small cubes and place them in a bowl. Scrape 1/2 vanilla bean and add to the apples.
Assembling, proofing and baking the vegan Apple Cinnamon Rolls
- For the next step, roll out the puff pastry to a 30 x 40 cm (12'' x 16'') rectangle.
- Spread the soft butter mixture on top of the puff pastry. Make sure you spare one centimetre on one side.After, place the apples on top.
- Start rolling on the opposite side from where you left the 1 cm (0.5'') border. Roll it tightly but gently. Once you reach the end, take some water and apply it onto the 1 cm border. Now roll until the end.
- Tighten the roll as shown in the video and images above. Freeze for 5-10 minutes.
- Using a bread knife, cut the off pieces of 2,5 cm (1''). You should get 12 little rolls out of it. Place them on two trays with parchment paper. Let them rise at room temperature for 2-2.5 hours.
- Once your cinnamon rolls are done proofing bake them for 20 minutes at 160° C (320°F). Take them out of the oven once their golden.
Icing
- Place the icing sugar in a bowl and add a small quantity of water or lemon juice and stir. Continue until you reach the desired consistency.
- Drip the icing over your rolls and enjoy!