Super easy Peanut Butter Protein Cinnamon Rolls with a peanut butter frosting for a beautiful and sweet breakfast! These peanut butter cinnamon rolls use peanut butter powder, protein powder and Greek yogurt, and make healthy, low calorie breakfast rolls!

I recently came across the whole peanut butter and cinnamon combination and really had to try it out in these breakfast rolls.

What a good combination!

Soft peanut butter sweet rolls with a gooey cinnamon filling – these rolls really were amazing.

The best part though, is that they’re super low fat and low calorie because I used peanut butter powder instead of regular peanut butter. A real game changing low calorie protein cinnamon roll.

Ingredients for Peanut Butter Protein Cinnamon Rolls

This healthy peanut butter protein cinnamon roll recipe has no yeast, just a few simple ingredients, and is perfect for a breakfast, post workout or even quick snack.

Here’s what you need for the perfect protein peanut butter breakfast rolls:

For the Protein Cinnamon Roll Dough

Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
Unflavored Whey-Caesin Protein Powder to replace some of the flour and make a low calorie high protein cinnamon roll.
I recommend the Multi-purpose mix protein powder from Quest Nutrition.
Vanilla Whey-Caesin Protein Powder to sweeten the cinnamon roll dough without the sugar; I used Whey-Caesin Quest Nutrition.
Peanut Butter Powder, also known as Powdered Peanut Butter. I recommend Lakanto for a sugar free version (the code HAYLSKITCHEN gives you a discount). Or you could use the one from PbFit or PB2 too.
1:1 Zero Calorie Monkfruit Sugar Substitute – I use Lakanto, to keep this recipe sugar free; (code HAYLSKITCHEN for a discount here too)
Non-fat Greek Yogurt
A bit of Unsalted Butter (this is needed) – I recommend light butter
Baking Powder; No yeast here

The filling for Low Calorie Cinnamon Rolls

Cinnamon
1:1 Zero Calorie Sugar Substitute – I use Lakanto, to keep this cinnamon chocolate roll recipe sugar free; (code HAYLSKITCHEN for a discount here too)
Some more Butter

And the Protein Peanut Butter Frosting

Greek Yogurt
More Peanut Butter Powder (same as above)
Vanilla Protein Powder. I used ProteinWorld Slender Blend but ProteinWorld Whey is a great options too. Code HAYLSKITCHEN gets you a discount on both.

Tips for Protein Peanut Butter Sweet Rolls

This really is an easy one, but here’s some pointers for the perfect protein powder peanut butter sweet rolls recipe:

Use cold yogurt, milk and butter so that the dough does not get too sticky and hard to roll.

Use the butter, don’t skip it! I tried a similar recipe without the butter, but the protein cinnamon roll dough was not soft enough.

Don’t over-mix the dough or it will get too warm and soft.
Also, the protein powder can make the peanut butter cinnamon rolls tough.

Flour the work surface and rolling pin to prevent dough from sticking

Don’t let dough sit out for too long; Work quickly with adding the filling, rolling and baking. You don’t want the dough to get too warm. Keept it in the fridge to cool if you need time.

Roll up the dough tight enough for it to hold, but not so tight that it does not have room to expand.

Alternates for Healthy Peanut Butter Cinnamon Rolls with Protein Powder

I recommend making this healthy, high protein low calorie peanut butter cinnamon roll recipe using the ingredients and products listed – especially the protein powder since it gives the best results.

If you need other options for the flours and such, here’s some alternatives for healthy peanut butter breakfast rolls:

Whole Wheat Pastry Flour: All purpose flour or 1:1 Gluten Free baking flour with the same weight not cups.
Unflavored Protein Powder: More flour (by cups); Also use a bit less yogurt.
Greek Yogurt: Coconut Yogurt (this might take longer cook)
Zero Calorie Sweetener: Regular sugar

For Vegan Protein Peanut Butter Rolls Recipe

To make this a Vegan protein peanut butter cinnamon rolls recipe, use some of the alternate ingredients mentioned above.

I haven’t tried this out myself, so I’m not sure how this would turn out.

Replace unflavored whey-caesin protein powder with more flour
Use Vegan vanilla protein powder;
ProteinWorld has a Vegan protein blend that you could try (code HAYLSKITCHEN for a discount here).
Coconut yogurt in place of Greek yogurt
Vegan butter in place of regular

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