Vegan Mini Cinnamon Sugar Cream Cheese Bundt Cakes. Gluten-free! Sweet, bursting with cinnamon, vegan, dairy-free and gluten-free. These are filled with a vegan cream cheese swirl and are delicious, moist and so easy to make.
You all know how much I love to bake. It’s my main passion, when it comes to cooking and creating. So, when Amy of Fragrant Vanilla Cake asked me to review her latest cookbook, “Just Vegan Cakes”, obviously I said YES.
The sound of so many of the desserts in her cookbook had me drooling. I ultimately decided to share this Vegan Cinnamon Sugar Cream Cheese Bundt Cake (with her permission of course) because I love cinnamon more than any other flavor. I mean, a cinnamon and cream cheese flavored cake with lots of cinnamon sugar sprinkled on top?? Obviously, I couldn’t wait to make these. I also liked that this one was made with coconut sugar. Guys, it is sooo delicious! Cinnamon-y, sugary, moist and rich!
This cake has a delicious cream cheese swirled throughout the batter and it not only smells divine, it tastes it too. Look how gorgeous the swirls look. The only thing different I did with her recipe, was to use “lite” canned coconut milk for the cake, instead of full fat coconut milk. There is already a good amount of oil in the cake (which I normally do not use) and a lot of cashew butter, so I figured I could still get by with the lite coconut milk and it still be plenty rich, and it was definitely very rich still.
Her whole book is filled with over 75 vegan and gluten-free recipes with amazing cupcakes, mini cakes, fancy cakes, you name it. So many beautiful, creative cakes to choose from. She even has an entire chapter dedicated to chocolate cakes. Um, yes! Seriously, any type of cake you can imagine. Everything from Lemon Poppy Seed Bundt Cake, Caramel Pecan Cupcakes, PB & J Swirl Cheesecake, Flourless Caramel Cake, Chocolate Hazelnut Cake. Drooling, yet?
This book is for people who love rich desserts and to impress a crowd, as the majority of them contain oil, coconut butter or coconut milk. So, if anybody thinks vegan desserts are made with just boring veggies and no flavor, this book will show them otherwise! She even has many raw desserts and several beautiful cakes with hidden veggies like zucchini and beets. Nobody would know though, because they are still very rich. She even has a chapter on Ice Cream Cakes.
So, if you are looking for an amazing cookbook on rich vegan cakes, then you gotta get Amy’s “Just Vegan Cakes” book!
I hope you all enjoy this lovely recipe, courtesy of Amy and her book. Be sure to leave feedback below if you make it!
This recipe below is printed with the permission of Amy at Fragrant Vanilla Cake.
OTHER VEGAN CAKE RECIPES TO TRY
- Vegan Cinnamon Caramel Bundt Cake
- Vegan Funfetti Birthday Cake
- Vegan Gluten-free Vanilla Cake
- Vegan Lemon Cake
- Vegan Chocolate Mug Cake
- Vegan Cranberry Bundt Cake
Vegan Cinnamon Sugar Cream Cheese Bundt Cake
Ingredients
Cream Cheese
- 1/2 cup raw cashew butter
- 1/4 cup full fat coconut milk
- 1 Tbsp maple syrup
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon cider vinegar
Cake Batter
- 1 1/2 cups gluten-free all purpose flour (see NOTE at bottom)
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 3/4 cup coconut sugar
- 1/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp coconut oil (If you need oil-free, try subbing with liquid coconut butter or applesauce, although I have not tried those)
- 3 Tbsp aquafaba
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup full fat coconut milk (I used lite coconut milk by Thai Kitchen brand instead of full-fat)
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
Topping
- 2 Tbsp coconut sugar
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F, and oil a 4 hole mini bundt pan with coconut oil. Note: I could not find a 4 hole bundt pan anywhere, so I bought a 6 hole one and it was perfect for the amount of batter.
- To make the cream cheese, whisk together cheese ingredients until smooth and set aside.
- To make the batter, whisk together all dry ingredients in a large bowl, then whisk in all of the wet ingredients. Pour half the batter into the prepared pan. Drop some of the cream cheese mixture over that, then top with remaining batter, then the remaining cream cheese mixture. Swirl around with a knife, to create marbling.
- Place in the oven and bake for about 20-25 minutes until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Let cool in pans for about 15 minutes, then unmold.
- Mix together the cinnamon and sugar topping in a bowl. Then once cakes are unmolded, dust them with the cinnamon sugar mixture.
Notes
Definitely cookies and bars of any kind. Just about any recipe can be adapted, and they’re so versatile!
I love baking everything, I can’t just pick one, it just depends on the occasion and how much time I have at the moment. I really used to enjoy baking Bundt cakes but I have not made one yet since going vegan several months ago. I have got to try this recipe!
MMMMM, cinnamon and cream cheese sounds delicious! I simply cannot order this book or I’ll be 400 pounds by christmas (*clicks to amazon to have a peek*). This book sounds amazing! And I bet load of work to create. Amazing job!
These look and sound delicious! They will be perfect for Fall. I love cake (who doesn’t???).
O well you know I’m just a sucker for anything mini like this 😉 Perfect way to get more use out of my mini bundts!!!
Basically anytime I bake it’s my favorite thing! Especially coffee cakes. Thanks for the chance.
Looks delicious Brandi! It’s always fun to see your photographs and recipes.
Thank you so much Kayla, that really is so nice to hear that you enjoy my posts!
Cookies, hands down. But little cakes like this and muffins/cupcakes come in a close second :-).
I love everything and anything Cinnamon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3 Oh…and peanut butter!!! =)
I love baking fruit crumble bars. So easily adaptable to whatever is in season, and most of the time appropriate for desert, or a snack, or even breakfast.
Brandi, this is such a wonderful recipe from Amy’s book! I could only imagine how good they must smell, love cinnamon! So this is perfect to me! Your pictures are beautiful, the first picture is my favorite!
Thank you so much Florian, so sweet of you to say that!! These cakes were so good!!
I love to bake anything that’s simple and sweet 🙂
I love baking tarts
Aaah those look SO good!
Can’t wait to try this recipe!
I love baking cupckaes!
Cookie Monster over here! Currently I have 2 cookie recipes in rotation, both yours imagine that! 4 ingredient peanut butter cookies and gluten free oatmeal raisin cookies. One or both are always made in this house!
Ha, imagine that!! So glad my cookie recipes are in regular rotation in your kitchen, thanks as always Diana!
Wow!!! I can’t wait to try this!! love me some cinnamon 🙂
I love making Bundt cakes! They look fancy without having to do anything to them after they’re baked. 🙂 Plus, with traditional Bundt pans, there are large and small portions pre-marked…easy to slice and serve.
Carrot cake is my favorite, although I do enjoy making cookies around the holidays as well.
A piece of erdoitiun unlike any other!
I love making cookies and brownies. I love making cakes as well but haven’t made any as often as I used to.
Well, you know how I feel about cinnamon sugar baked goods!! DROOLING! I love Amy’s recipes and I totally need this book!!!
Cakes are my favorite.
I love baking cookies. They are versatile and easy to make!
It is hard to pick just one thing, but I think cakes are my favorite to make. I do love to eat cookies though. It is just that I like to make cakes for other people–not fancy decorated, but just tasty!