Vegan Strawberry Cinnamon Rolls (2024)

Our softest, fluffiest dough with a delicious fresh strawberry filling, makes these vegan strawberry cinnamon rolls perfect for your next special breakfast!

Fresh strawberries make some of the best sweet vegan recipes ever and these vegan strawberry cinnamon rolls are no exception. Most especially if you get fresh from the garden strawberries.

This recipe uses our yeasted everything dough process to create the fluffiest, softest, most delicious spring time cinnamon rolls.

While these are amazing with fresh strawberries in season, the beautiful, bright, color, without the use of dyes, are perfect for Christmas or Valentine’s Day as well since the color really pops!

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Why You’ll Love These Cinnamon Rolls

• Fluffy – If there’s a universal agreement, it’s that cinnamon rolls should be fluffy. These vegan cinnamon rolls are soft and fluffy and have the perfect balance of what you are looking for
• Simple Ingredient List – almost everything in this recipe is a pantry staple which means you usually have everything on hand already!
• Allergen-Friendly – this recipe is easily top allergen free except for gluten; however, you can follow our vegan gluten free cinnamon roll and use this strawberry-cinnamon filling inside

Vegan Strawberry Cinnamon Rolls Ingredients:

Gather your ingredients!

• bread flour – we really recommend using bread flour for this recipe for the softness and best cinnamon rolls. Bread flour has a higher protein content which leads to the best dough texture every time for this recipe
• vegan sugar – Cane sugar is what we are using. Learn more aboutwhy your sugar may not be vegan.
• yeast -we are using instant yeast so that the recipe is as foolproof as possible
• salt – do not omit here, the salt helps to tighten the gluten strains, but also to bring the flavor out
• cornstarch – helps to thicken our filling mixture so the natural juices of the strawberries don’t spill out everywhere
• strawberries – Fresh strawberries will work best.

See my recipe card below for a complete list of the ingredients with measurements.

Substitutions and Variations:

• bread flour – all-purpose flour could also be used.
• yeast – you can use active dry yeast but it may take longer to rise
• sugar – granulated coconut sugar or date sugar could be used
• strawberries – other berries like raspberries, blueberries, or a mix of berries could also be used. Frozen strawberries can be used, but you’ll want to make sure the juices soak up during the thickening process
• cornstarch – arrowroot powder is a sub for cornstarch

Step by Step Instructions:

Step 1: Add all the dry ingredients into a large bowl and whisk together. We prefer to do this in a stand mixer, but this can be done by hand.

Step 2: Add your wet ingredients into the bowl and let your stand mixer knead for 5-7 minutes.

Whether you do this in a stand mixer or by hand, you are looking for a ball to form and the dough to be pulling away from the sides of the bowl.

When you touch the dough with a clean finger, it should not be sticky. You may need to add the additional flour at this time.

Step 3: Once you have your dough ball formed, you are going to remove the dough, grease the bowl, and then cover it with a towel to rise.

Tip: Rising time should take approximately 60-90 minutes to double in size, but you want to watch your dough and not the timer.

Step 4: Once your dough has doubled in size, then you can move on with the recipe.

Step 5: For the filling, this can be done while waiting for dough to rise. Add your fresh, diced strawberries to a pot and let cook until the juices begin to release, stirring often

Step 6: Add in sugar and cornstarch and stir together vigorously. Allow the mixture to thicken. Then, remove from heat.

Step 7: Add in the cinnamon and stir together.

Step 8: Once you have a thickened mixture, remove it to a bowl and allow to cool completely before moving on.

Step 9: On a silicon mat, or lightly floured surface, roll your dough out into a rectangle.

Step 10: Carefully spread your cooled filling mixture across, leaving about a 1″ boarder around.

Step 11: Using a pizza cutter, slice dough into 12 equal pieces. Then roll up from bottom to top each piece.

You could also do the traditional method of rolling the entire log and then cutting pieces.

Step 12: Place each piece in a parchment and lightly greased 9×13 baking dish. Once all pieces are in your dish, cover and let rise again until double. Cinnamon rolls should be touching.

Step 13: Once all the cinnamon rolls have risen and mostly touching all sides, then you bake your cinnamon rolls for 30-35 minutes

Step 14: When your cinnamon rolls have finished cooking, remove from the oven and allow to cool for a few minutes before adding any frosting.

Recipe FAQs:

Other Vegan Cinnamon Rolls to Love:

We have dozens of flavors of cinnamon rolls now. We even have savory roll versions if you like things not so sweet. Here’s a few to try:

Or, if you want, to see all our vegan cinnamon roll ideas.