Cinnamon Roll Protein Loaf

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Have a loafly breakfast or dessert with this easy, quick cinnamon roll protein loaf. Sorry, terrible puns are how I roll. I know bad jokes can get stale quite quickly, but thankfully this bread recipe doesn’t! I have been craving cinnamon rolls like crazy the past month, but I am too lazy to make a gluten free recipe from scratch and too afraid to eat a Cinnabon with gluten in it, so my middle ground: quick bread with a cinnamon sugar layer inside and cinnamon roll glaze on top. And because I’m extra, it’s also low in calories and high in protein.

A labor of loaf.

Recipe and Instructions

Cinnamon Roll Protein Loaf

  • Servings: 8
  • Difficulty: Beginner
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A simple way to indulge that cinnamon roll craving with a healthy option.

You can sub any “just add water” pancake mix if you don’t need to be gluten free.

Ingredients

FOR THE BREAD
*227 grams (2 1/4 cups) Kodiak Cakes gluten free flapjack mix
*45 grams Quest vanilla or cinnamon crunch protein powder
*2 large eggs
*1 tsp vanilla extract
*112 grams (1/2 cup) fat free Greek yogurt
*3/4 cup Fairlife fat free milk (skim also works)

FOR THE FILLING
*1/4 cup of Lakanto granular monkfruit or regular sugar
*2 TBS cinnamon

FOR THE GLAZE
*1/2 cup Lakanto powdered monkfruit or regular powdered sugar
*2-3 TBS fat free or skim milk

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 and spray an 8×4 (I used this size) or 9×5 loaf pan with cooking spray
  2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flapjack mix and protein powder; set aside
  3. In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, yogurt, vanilla, and milk until smooth
  4. Dump dry mix into the wet mix and whisk just until everything comes together
  5. Mix together the cinnamon and granular monkfruit
  6. Pour half the batter into the prepared loaf pan, then top with the cinnamon-sugar mixture
  7. Cover this layer with the remaining batter and smooth out
  8. Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out cleanly from the center of the loaf; if you use a 9×5 pan, it will cook faster
  9. Let loaf cool in pan for 10 minutes before turning out to a cooling rack to cool completely
  10. Once bread has cooled, mix the powdered monkfruit and milk to create a thick glaze
  11. Pour glaze on top of loaf and use the back of a spoon to force some of the glaze over the sides
  12. Slice into 8 servings; keep in fridge
  13. To warm, wrap in damp paper towel and microwave for 30 seconds or place in a toaster for a minute

Nutrition

Macros for 1 slice using monkfruit and fat free milk
156 calories/21 c/1.8 f/14 p
That cinnamon sugar layer, dough…the true MVP.
All you knead is loaf.

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