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Delicious. |
Okay, not sure how many of you remember when I made the
Peanut Butter Chocolate Swirl Cookies, which I loved, but I said back then that they looked like mini-cinnamon roll cookies and I wanted them to be so! So, I worked on the idea of a cinnamon roll cookie, and this is what I came up with. It is the same idea as the peanut butter chocolate swirl cookies, where you roll out the dough and put a filling inside and then roll it into cylinders and freeze it before you slice it into the cookies and bake it. Guys: these are delicious. I basically made a regular cookie dough, like I would make for chocolate chip cookies and added cinnamon. Then I made a filling of cinnamon and sugar and coated the cookies. As the final touch, I made cream cheese frosting (like the kind that goes on regular cinnamon rolls) and put it on top of the cookies. (I couldn't leave off the ooey gooey frosting; it is one of the best parts of cinnamon rolls).
Ingredients:
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Ingredients. |
1/2 cup powdered sugar
3/4 cup unsalted butter
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon plus 1 tablespoon
1 large egg white
1 tablespoon water
Cooking:
1. In a medium bowl, cream together the butter, powdered sugar, salt, vanilla, and 1 tablespoon of cinnamon.
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Ready to be creamed. |
2. Add the flour slowly and mix to make a cohesive dough.
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Flour Added. |
3. Roll the dough into a ball, wrap in saran wrap, and refrigerate it for at least 1 hour.
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Ball o' dough. |
4. Roll the dough out on a piece of parchment paper. It should be rolled to about 9x12 inch rectangle. Make sure you don't roll the dough too thin though.
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Flattened Dough. |
5. Make an egg wash - which is the egg white combined with the water. Whisk until foamy.
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Foamy egg wash. |
6. Combine the remaining cinnamon with the granulated sugar.
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Cinnamon sugar mixture. |
7. Brush the flattened dough with the egg wash.
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Brushing the egg wash. |
8. Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar mixture on top of the egg washed dough.
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Dough is ready to roll. |
9. Roll the dough into a cylinder.
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The roll. |
10. Cover the cylinder in saran wrap and keep in the freezer until firm - about an hour. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
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Ready to freeze. |
11. Once the dough is firm, remove from freezer and slice the cylinder into cookies and set onto a baking sheet.
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Cylinder. |
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Slices. |
12. Bake the cookies 12 to 15 minutes, until they are a light golden brown. The cookies taste good like this, but I recommend adding the frosting.
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Baked cookies. |
To the frosting!
Ingredients:
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Ingredients. |
4 ounces of cream cheese, softened
1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract
13. Put all the ingredients in a bowl and mix with an electric mixture until smooth.
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Ready to mix. |
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Frosting ready! |
14. Spread the frosting on the cookies. Makes 30-35 cookies. Enjoy!
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The final product. |
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Mouth watering. |
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TIP: Put the frosting on while the cookies are still warm so it melts in. |
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Pile of YUM. |
Recipe inspired by Heat Oven to 350 blog.
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