From one copycat recipe to another—we’re fulfilling our long lost childhood favorites one post at a time. A few days ago we released a recipe for Delivery Style Vegan Pizza, which mimics the soft, airy, and flavored-crust pizza of Hungry Howie’s. This week we’re tackling pizza’s sweet counterpart: cinnamon breadsticks. Because who doesn’t want bread with sugar on top of it after eating bread with sauce on top of it?
The reason cinnamon sticks are so popular among pizza joints is because they’re made from the exact same dough as pizza, which is precisely what we’ve done as well. It’s pretty much the same amount of work for double the product, which isn’t only smart businesses, it’s efficient for home cooks too. Dinner and dessert with one dough? That’s math we can get behind.
For an explanation of all the science, techniques, and ingredients that go into this dough, peep the bulleted list in our pizza recipe! That covers everything from yeast, gluten formation, rise time, and more. Aside from making the dough, there’s not much to this dessert! It’s:
- Easy, simple, & nostalgic
- Fluffy, airy, soft, and lightly crunchy
- Sweet, buttery, caramelized, with a cinnamon kick
- A pizza shop classic
- Vegan
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Bring it on Domino’s
Sweet & Buttery Vegan Cinnamon Bread Sticks (Domino's Cinna Stix Copycat)
Soft & airy pizza dough is slathered with melted butter, cinnamon sugar, and baked until the top caramelizes into a crème brûlée-like crust. Serve alongside sticky sweetened condensed milk dipping sauce.
Ingredients
Dough
- 240 g (2 c) all purpose flour
- 24 g (2 tbsps) cane sugar
- 1 ½ tsps salt
- 1 ½ tsps instant yeast
- 4 ½ oz warm water (~115° F)
- 21 g (1 ½ tbsps) olive oil
Topping
- 60 g (5 tbsps) cane sugar
- 1 3/4 tsps cinnamon
- 21 g (1 1/2 tbsps) melted vegan butter
Dipping Sauce
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp melted butter
- 2 tbsps sweetened condensed coconut milk
- 1/2 c powdered sugar
Directions
- Whisk together flour, sugar, salt, and yeast in the bowl of a standup mixer. Pour in water & olive oil and use the dough hook to combine on low speed.
- Once the dough comes together, feel it to test its consistency. If the dough’s sticking to the bottom, add a little bit more flour. It should be moist but not so much so that it clings to your fingers.
- When you reach a good texture, boost speed to medium and knead for 10 minutes. Take dough off the hook, form into a ball, lightly oil your bowl, place the dough back in, cover with plastic wrap, and store in a warm place to rise until it’s doubled in size; about 1 hour.
- While dough rises, mix together sugar & cinnamon in a small bowl. Set aside.
- After 1 hour, coat a 9 x 9 baking dish with enough melted butter to cover. Gently press air out of the dough, transfer to prepped baking dish, and knead with your knuckles & stretch it to fit.
- Use a brush to coat top of dough with remaining melted butter, sprinkle on cinnamon sugar, and lightly rub it in. Cover with plastic wrap or a tea towel and let it proof in a warm spot for 45 minutes.
- When 45 minutes is almost up, pre-heat oven to 450° F. When oven’s ready, bake cinnamon breadsticks until top is lightly caramelized but the interior is soft & pillowy; about 14 minutes.
- Note: if baking same time as pizza, switch them around in the oven halfway through baking (7 minutes).
- While breadsticks bake, whisk together vanilla, butter, sweetened condensed milk, and powdered sugar until smooth. Remove breadsticks from oven, cool in pan for 5 minutes, and transfer to a cutting board. Use a sharp knife to slice bread down the middle, then slice each half short-wise into 5 or 6 pieces.
- Enjoy while warm with dipping sauce! Cover any leftovers with plastic wrap and store at room temperature for 24 hours.
*Dough recipe can be easily doubled to make Delivery Style Vegan Pizza with Garlic Herb Crust!
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Subbed Avocado oil and half a cup of the flour for white ww flour and they turned out fantastic! I’ve never had a dough come together so easy with the exact measurements in the recipe it was so seamless especially since I have a stand mixer. I ended up cutting the dough into 10 pieces and making little ovals so they be easier to separate when they were done cooking and it worked super well! Thank you :)
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Look amazing!! Kind of like dessert soldiers…… love it (:
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Thank you Blogtastic!
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YUM!
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