Strawberry Stuffed Cinnamon Rolls!

Both Joel and I could have cried after the first bite of these strawberry cinnamon rolls. Joel has seen me attempt cinnamon rolls a handful of times and each time they have failed. EVERY SINGLE TIME. Too hard, didn’t rise, tasted bland, and any other thing that could go wrong with baking. And it’s not like cinnamon rolls, like the fluffy legit kind, are a quick 20 minute prep. They take all day! I wanted fluffy, gooey, melt in your mouth rolls that would knock my socks off.

I honestly gave up trying to bake cinnamon rolls for the last three years. I just didn’t see the point waisting ingredients on something that was going to flop anyways. But then my mother-in-law gave me a fresh bag of all-purpose flour and I thought, WHY NOT? I had yeast packets in the cupboard that followed us from LA to SD and it just felt right. And boy, did my gut know what was in store. These cinnamon rolls were the best thing that has happened in the kitchen for 2020 and I cannot wait to see how much better they become the most I perfect my cinnamon roll baking skills.

I used Ambitious Kitchen’s “The Best Cinnamon Rolls You’ll Ever Eat” recipe and made a few adjustments. I didn’t step too far away from her recipe because I had heard so many great things about it that I didn’t want to fail at cinnamon rolls yet again. Here’s the substitutions I made:

For the rolls-

• All-purpose flour instead of bread flour
• Ripple Foods unsweetened vanilla pea milk instead of 2% dairy milk
• Earth Balance vegan butter instead of regular
• Lakanto golden monkfruit sugar instead of granulated sugar

For the filling (I kept the cinnamon and used vegan butter)-

• Added 1 cup chopped fresh strawberries
• Lakanto golden monkfruit sugar instead of brown sugar

For the frosting-

• Earth Balance vegan butter instead of regular
• Lakanto monkfruit powdered sugar instead of regular

You can make these rolls as Monique directs or make the few changes like I did above. The added strawberries were killer in this recipe and I highly recommend it. Have you made cinnamon rolls before?!