When you cannot roll the batter, you make it into a swirled bread! This Soft and delicious bread is gluten-free, yeast-free, grain-free, but not taste-free. Never taste-free! A fluffy besan (brown chickpea flour) batter, and cinnamon sugar swirled in and baked for perfect Cinnamony, fluffy bites to start the morning. Serve warm with a drizzle of icing or vegan butter.

The batter for this Cinnamon Roll bread uses besan (brown chickpea flour) and uses citric acid to add air to the batter before baking. The principle of using citric acid in gluten-free baking is similar to aquafaba, To add air to the batter before baking. This method is used in Indian snacks and baking since decades. You can possible used whipped up aquafaba instead in this recipe. Whipping up aquafaba is not my cup of tea (too much noise and too long a process). Nor is the canned liquid. Hello changing metabolism. This recipe is far quicker, takes 15 seconds and easier! No elbow grease required, no 15 minutes of whipping, just mix in 5 strokes and done! Whats there to not like?

This recipe does not use any added yeast, but baking powder and citric acid for leavening. If you are sensitive to yeast, please check the other ingredients and use the versions that are safe for you. Vinegar uses yeast in the production process, and citric acid might as well. Use lemon juice and non yeast citric acid or all lemon juice like my gluten-free lemon donuts, For regular flour cinnamon Swirl bread/cake, try this as a loaf or in a shallow pan. Lets get to this amazing sticky gf bread.

Vegan Gluten free Cinnamon Roll Bread in White Stoneware dish

I posted a different version of gf cinnamon rolls using similar ingredients in my Instagram stories a while back The rolling always makes a mess, so I changed up the plan and make a bread. This bread is amazing for the cinnamony, bready cinnamon roll craving. If you make these, do let me know how they turned out in the comments! Let me know if you changed things, if other flours worked out, how was the texture etc.

More gluten-free baked recipes from the blog

For regular with gluten Cinnamon Rolls, see these.

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You can make this without the citric acid like my lemon donuts, but I would suggest getting some to use, so you can use it in other gluten-free baking as well. You can make these without almond flour, just omit the almond flour. The starch can be subbed with 2 tbsp more besan. The bread will tend to dry out quicker without the starch, so use icing generously.

Besan is flour of Chana dal or skinned brown chickpeas while chickpea flour is flour of white chickpeas. Slightly different chickpeas and the flours behave slightly differently. I prefer besan for this bread as it is a finer flour and makes for a lighter bread. You can get besan from an Indian store or amazon. It can be used in most all recipes that use chickpea flour.

The method for making this cinnamon bread comes from gluten-free steamed savory cakes called Dhokla.

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