Surprise them with these sweet, moist, decadent Chocolate Cashew Butter filled Cinnamon Buns. They’ll thank you later!

Hi everyone! It’s me again, Celeste from The Whole Serving, back with a recipe that will literally have you licking your fingers and lips.

I hardly ever, more like never use my bread machine for baking breads I usually only use it for dough because it makes things so much easier, but you can certainly make this dough without it if you don’t have one.

Such a pretty dough, don’t you think.

A few months ago my daughter became obsessed with cinnamon rolls after using leftover pizza dough I had to make a batch. She likes the plain and simple brown sugar and cinnamon filled rolls, while I like to experiment and try different fillings.

I like the combination of nut butter and chocolate so I gave it a try. I used cashew butter because my daughter is allergic to peanuts, however, you can use peanut butter if it’s not a problem for you.

My daughter isn’t a big chocolate lover and didn’t want to give these a try, but she did and she was blown away by the out-of-this-world deliciousness. I also took a batch to work and it was a hit with them as well.

This is over-the-top delicious, trust me. Make it for your family and watch it disappear.

Chocolate Cashew Butter Cinnamon Buns

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Chocolate Cashew Butter Cinnamon Buns

Ingredients

Dough

1 cup almond milk
2 tablespoons natural cane sugar
2 teaspoons active dry yeast
3 tablespoons Earth Balance vegan butter or real butter if not vegan
3 cups bread flour
1 teaspoon fine sea salt

Filling

1 ½ cups cashew butter or whatever’s your favorite
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 ¼ cups dark chocolate chips
3 tablespoons ground cinnamon

Glaze

1 cup powdered sugar
1 tablespoon almond milk
½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

Pour almond milk into a small bowl, stir natural sugar in milk, warm milk 30 seconds in the microwave.
Sprinkle yeast over warm milk and allow to proof 10 minutes.
While yeast is proofing melt Earth Balance or butter.
Pour milk mixture and melted Earth Balance into bowl of bread maker.
Add the flour and salt on top of liquids.
Set bread maker to dough setting and continue according to manufactures instructions for dough.
When dough is ready pre-heat oven to 350 degrees and lightly oil a rectangle baking pan or dish and line with parchment paper leaving some to hang over the sides of pan for lifting out of pan. Turn dough out onto a floured surface. Shape dough into a square and with a lightly floured rolling pin roll dough into a large rectangle about 11 x 17.
In a small bowl mix together cashew butter and vanilla, spread over dough, sprinkle brown sugar, chocolate chips and cinnamon over cashew butter.
Starting with the long edge roll dough tightly.
Slice and place in baking dish and bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown.
While buns are baking mix together powdered sugar, almond milk and vanilla.
When buns have cooled slightly spread with glaze, serve and enjoy.