Vegan Raspberry Buns
A summer recipe for fluffy, soft lemon raspberry buns made of yeast dough with a sweet, lemony filling and a lemon cashew glaze. These vegan lemon raspberry buns fit perfectly with coffee/ tea and cake time, breakfast, brunch or as dessert.
Servings 15 buns
Equipment
Ingredients
dough
- 20 g fresh yeast or 2 ¼ teaspoon active dry yeast
- ½ cup of lukewarm water
- 3 tablespoon nut butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup of date paste or maple syrup
- 4 ½ cups spelt flour wheat or gluten-free
- 1 cup sparkling water
- 6 tablespoon aquafaba drained water from chickpeas,
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
filling
- ¼ cup almond butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup of dates dried and chopped
- 2 cups raspberries fresh or frozen defrosted
- Lemon zest
- ¾ teaspoon cornstarch
Frosting
- 40 g cashews soak overnight
- 3 tablespoons water
- ½ cup white beans
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- ½ teaspoon lemon zest
Instructions
- doughMix the yeast with the water and let it stand for a couple minutes.
- Beat the aquafaba like egg whites until it is white and stiff.
- Now pour all ingredients together and knead until a soft, homogeneous, non-sticky dough is formed. Possibly, you have to add some water or some flour. Depending on the type of flour. It is sometimes different.
- Now let the dough rice double volume.
- frostingNow prepare the frosting in the meantime. Mix all ingredients in a blender and until a creamy consistency is reached. Put it in the fridge.
- Prepare the buns with fillingRoll out the dough and spread the coconut oil or almond butter on it. Sprinkle vanilla sugar over. Stir the raspberries with the lemon and cornstarch.
- And spread the raspberries on the dough.
- Now roll up the dough on the long side and cut about 1inch thick slices. Place with the swirl up with some space in a baking pan.
- Cover and let it rice to its double volume. In the meantime preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Put the buns in the oven and bake for about 25 minutes.
- They do not need a lot of color, just baked through. So they are nice and soft and fluffy.
- Enjoy the lemon raspberry buns with frosting.