Swedish Healthy Cinnamon Buns (Kanelbullar) 🇸🇪
Kanelbullar or cinnamon buns are a classic at Swedish coffee parties (fika time -  time for friends and colleagues to share a cup of coffee and cookie). During the golden age of home baking, such parties turned into mini-factories of sweet yeast breads, small cookies, cookies with fillings, pastries and cakes. This tradition lives on in Sweden. If you are invited to someone’s home for coffee, you always get a cinnamon bun, a cookie or a piece of cake with it. I got many request from you to make a healthier version of these delights, all covered with delicious vanilla cream . Enjoy!
Servings: 16 yield(s)
Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 90 mins
Total Time: 100 mins
Ingredients
    Dough
  • 250 g wholemeal flour
  • 250 g regular flour
  • 10 g baking powder
  • 3 tbsp olive oil (slowly poured, one by one while kneading)
  • 3 tbsp plant milk (slowly poured, one by one while kneading)
  • 2 tbsp lukewarm water (slowly poured, one by one while kneading)
  • 1 egg (for the dough)
  • 1 egg (for coating before baking)
    • Filling
  • 2 peaches (or 4 apricots)
  • 2 tbsp chia seed
  • 1 tbsp warm water
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 1 tbsp cinnamon (or more if you wish)
    • Topping
  • 1 egg white
  • 1 tsp honey (add more if you wish)
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
  1. Knead the dough (add the liquid ingredients in the dry spoon by spoon with constant stirring), form a ball and leave it to stand for 1 hour.
  2. Meanwhile, put the fruit and hot water in a blender, then place the mixture in a bowl. Add honey, cinnamon and chia seeds and let it stand until you get a thick jam (about 20 minutes).
  3. Roll the dough into a rectangular thin crust, coat it with the fruit and cinnamon mixture, then wrap it in a roll. Cut the roll into 1 cm thick pieces that you will arrange in a prepared baking tray in a horizontal position.
  4. Coat the rolls with beaten egg and bake for 30 minutes at 180 degrees.
  5. Put a little vanilla cream prepared by beating 1 egg white, honey and vanilla extract on each baked cinnamon roll (mix with a mixer). Decorate with a leaf of a confectionery plant for even better taste.