Cinnamon Raisin Bagels (vegan)

Bagels don’t always need to be store bought. This recipe for chewy, soft, cinnamon raisin bagels will show you that baking them from home is easier than you think!

These Cinnamon Raisin Bagels are perfect to have toasted with cream cheese for breakfast.

I adore bagels.

They’re chewy, fun to eat toasted or not, and you get to top them with cream cheese (and Nutella)! 😛

Plus they remind me of donuts but a heartier version so they keep me fuller for longer which is so essential for me because I have such long school days now.

Lil’ bun has also been absolutely obsessed with bagels lately as well. She likes to compare the bagels we get from one bakery to another so now she managed to figure out where her favorite bagel flavors are located.

Mother deer isn’t too fond of this though because she needs to go from one store to another depending on whether lil’ bun is craving everything, blueberry, cinnamon raisin, or cheese bagels

As much as I like the convenience of buying bagels from the store, I haven’t found any out there with natural enough ingredients.

Many of the ones I’ve found include artificial flavors, colourings and preservatives and I’m just not a fan of that so I decided to make my own!

At first I was feeling nervous about the process but I quickly figured out that making bagels is similar to making pretzels because you need to boil the dough in water before baking them in the oven.

It’s funny how you can achieve such a different texture in bread by simply doing one extra step.

I wonder why boiling it makes it chewy…perhaps I’ll look into it sometime. Or can anyone enlighten me on such a phenomena?

Question of the day: What’s your favorite bagel flavor? Mines blueberry!

Cinnamon Raisin Bagels recipe

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