These Easy Cinnamon Roll Muffins are made without any grains or flour and made completely keto, sugar-free, gluten free, nut free and low carb too!
Easy Cinnamon Roll Muffins
When you ask someone who is on the standard American diet, what they will have on Christmas morning for breakfast, almost everyone would say Pillsbury Cinnamon rolls in the can. I dislike them with a passion. Hate them is a better word for it.
Good thing I have a fabulous Keto Cinnamon Roll Recipe for those of us on a low carb diet and I would dare say they taste even better than any store bought. The reviews for those rolls speak for themselves as well with many many positive comments. The only deal with them is they do require a few steps to make the dough and roll. So this recipe is a little less work but still with all the flavor of the typical cinnamon roll only in muffin form!
This recipe is more of a mock cinnamon roll, but once iced and covered with cream cheese frosting, no one will even notice it's not all swirled up like a typical cinnamon roll.
Cinnamon Roll Muffin Recipe
You could skip the icing as well as just eat them like this above with the cinnamon-y topping. But then without the icing it's just a cinnamon muffin.
You see I think it's all about the flavor. The topping and the icing makes a cinnamon roll authentic. Yes there is that minor detail for the "roll" part in the word, but whatever. I'm sticking with the much easier and less time consuming muffin.
Mix the batter, dump and bake, add the icing, DONE. Enjoy the morning with your loved ones. Easy peasy!
Cream Cheese Icing
I worked on the icing 3 times using different sugar free sweeteners. But I'm only sharing the one I liked the best. This icing is creamy, not gritty, just as smooth as any typical cinnamon roll frosting, but knowing it's made sugar free and keto, should leave you feeling satisfied and pleased and content.
It's so good, be careful you may just want to eat that icing with a spoon from the jar!
The trick to making them look more like cinnamon rolls is after baking in their own muffin cup, remove and add to pie plate! Top with icing and you're done! It's certainly no work of art to add icing gracefully. It's supposed to be a hot mess right? I think that's what everyone loves about them!
Keto Sugar Free Cinnamon Roll Muffins
Grain Free Sugar Free Cinnamon Roll Muffins
Ingredients
- ¾ cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1.5 cups sesame flour or sunflower or almond flour
- ½ cup flaxseed ground
- ¼ cup coconut flour
- 2 teaspoons xanthan gum
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon allspice
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ½ cup butter
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 3 eggs
- 1 tablespoon Sugar free maple syrup I used Sukrin
- ½ cup Swerve or erythritol
Topping
- ½ cup Swerve
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3 tablespoons butter softened
Optional Cream Cheese Icing
- 4 ounces cream cheese softened
- 4 ounces heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla liquid stevia
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- In a small bowl add the heavy cream and apple cider vinegar. Set aside.
- Whisk together the next 8 dry ingredients in a large bowl and set aside.
- Add the butter, oil, eggs, syrup and ½ cup Swerve to a stand mixer and blend until incorporated well.
- Add the heavy cream and vinegar into the stand mixer and blend until smooth.
- Gradually pour in the dry ingredients into the stand mixer and blend until combined.
- Grease a 12 capacity muffin pan and pour batter evenly into each cup.
- In a small bowl stir the topping ingredients together and spread on about a teaspoon to each muffin top.
- Bake 25 minutes.
- While the muffins are baking , mix the icing ingredients together in a stand mixer until smooth, no lumps. Set aside until muffins are ready.
- Allow muffins to cool about 5 minutes then loosen around edges with a butter knife.
- Remove to a pie plate if desired to top with Icing and enjoy!
- If making ahead, keep muffins and icing in the refrigerator, reheat muffins in oven at 350 for 10 minutes and add icing when ready to serve.
Notes
- This recipe was first posted on my blog in December of 2014 and updated with video in September 2018.
- Nutrition info does not include the icing.
- If the icing is made ahead and kept in the refrigerator you may need to allow it to get to room temperature or microwave it for just a minute.
- If you don't have Swerve for the muffin part, you could use this powdered stevia, 1 tablespoon or pure stevia extract, just ½ teaspoon.
- Please note: I can not use almond flour since my youngest has a tree nut allergy so I used sunflower seeds one time I made them and I've also used sesame flour, I liked the sesame flour best for the texture.
Nutrition
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
Cindy
I have been an insulin dependent diabetic for 57 years and just found your website; am anxious to try so many recipes but is very expensive to get started with the purchase of all the different flours, xanthan gum, stevias, etc---can I use just white or wheat flour in these cinnamon muffins vs. the almond & coconut flours and, if so so, what is the conversion ratio? And Stevia to Sweet 'n Low powder? Thanks for all your efforts!
Eva
I don't have molasses. Do you think I could substitute maple syrup?
Brenda
I think that would work.
Eva
Ok great I'll give it a try and see how it works.
Erin
These look amazing... May be a silly question but I just started sugar free/ low carb and all the different sweeteners overwhelm me. Did you use granulated or powdered Swerve?
Brenda
Either will work in this recipe.
Sarah at The Fasting Diet Plan
I've been craving for muffins these past few weeks. However, I had to limit myself from too much sugar so I can stick with my diet plan. I guess, I just found the answer to my dilemma through your post. Thanks a lot!
karen justinn
I made these this morning, and would like to tell you they taste as good as the pictures. only suggestion, your recipe said pour the batter into the muffin cups, the batter becomes like a "dough" pretty quickly and does not pour. I spooned it in. the final result after baking was delicious. I found the recipe pretty easy to make as well. so this is a keeper for years to come. thank you 🙂
Lauren+@+Healthy+Delicious
I'm with you - I hate making cinnamon rolls (although I do love the canned ones). Muffins are such a great idea!
Cookin+Canuck
What a great way to improvise on regular cinnamon rolls! These looks at those they'd be a hit at any breakfast.
Bea
These look fantastic and must be a hit with the cinnamon lover. Yum!
Paula+-+bell'alimento
Hello breakfast! Don't mind me while I eat the rest of the plate ; )
Nutmeg+Nanny
Sweet baby J! That icing on top totally seals the deal for me. I want 1...or 2...ok maybe 3 🙂
Renee+-+Kudos+Kitchen
I haven't had Pillsbury cinnamon rolls in like 20 years so they definitely won't be on our table Christmas morning. The icing on yours looks incredible. Homemade is always best!
Kim+(Feed+Me,+Seymour)
Oh man, cinnamon rolls are my serious weakness!
Kate+@+Diethood
YES! Bring on the homemade!! I'd like to start with the icing and then inhale the rest. 🙂
Ginny+McMeans
You are so good at making these creations. Cinnamon rolls posing as muffins is such a good idea!
Colleen+(Souffle+Bombay)
Cinnamon Roll Muffins for Christmas morning?? Oh yes please!
Sterling
Any suggestions for a substitution for the coconut flour? I'm allergic to coconut.
Brenda
Can you use almond flour?
Ashley @ Wishes & Dishes
These look mouthwatering!! I also have an aversion to the canned biscuits! I liked them before I tried a homemade version years and years ago 🙂
Amanda+@+The+Kitcheneer
Oops. I think I just drooled all over myself. These look fantastic!
Martha@A Family Feast
These look amazing - and I wouldn't even miss a traditional cinnamon roll if these were on my table!
Angie+|+Big+Bear's+Wife
YOu amaze me with the fantastic sugar free recipes that you bring to your blog! Everytime I see a recipe like this I think about how much my papa would have loved these types of sugar free recipes!
Heather+/+girlichef
We have homemade orange rolls on Christmas morning - but these sound amazing, I'd definitely try them!
Stephanie+@+Back+for+Seconds
Oh my word. YUM!
Betty
I have not made these yet,but will they taste the same without the molasses? I am diabetic and not on insulin,hope to never be.
Danielle
At 5.3 net carbs you have 1/3 of a carbohydrate serving. Just plan it with protein and you will be fine.
Brenda
HI Betty there is only 1 tbsp in the entire 12 muffins. I do feel it is needed. The net carbs are low per serving.
Dorothy
I don't see molasses in the recipe?
Angie
These muffins look so good, now I'm craving them!
The+Food+Hunter
Oh WOW! I'm drooling