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Easy Cinnamon Roll Cookies!

December 7, 2018 By Chichi Uguru 11 Comments

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Cinnamon roll cookies!! That cinnamony brown sugar goodness you love in homemade cinnamon rolls is right here in your cookies yay!!! A recipe for cinnamon roll cookies that is easy to make and tastes so good you would love so much. Make sure to make you more batches because they finish so fast. These cookies store very well and can make great Christmas gifts.

Cinnamon Roll Cookies

Cinnamon roll cookies are a type of pinwheel cookies. I have a Christmas pinwheel cookie recipe on the blog so be sure to check that out too, you will love the colors.

Pinwheel are cookies that rolled to form a pinwheel design. It can made with a filling like these cinnamon roll cookies or made by using different colors if cookie dough like in my Christmas pinwheel cookies.

Cinnamon roll cookies recipe

Don’t be overwhelmed dear friend by the complicated appearance of these cinnamon roll cookies. This is the easiest recipe for cinnamon roll cookies, so don’t fret.

The thing here is more of the technique than the cookie dough itself. You can use any sugar cookie dough that you are comfortable with. A cookie dough that can be rolled easily without cracks.

I usually use my best sugar cookie recipe for this. I haven’t tried the short bread dough for this cinnamon roll cookies but I think it will work.

These cinnamon roll cookies can easily customize to any celebration by using the colors of that celebration as the filling. You simply swap the brown sugar and cinnamon mix with colored sanding sugar like I did with the Christmas cookies below.

If you intend making the Christmas themed cookies then grab your red and green sanding sugar here.

How to make cinnamon roll cookies.

Just like the traditional cinnamon rolls, which has a yeast based dough and a cinnamon and brown sugar filling which is then rolled up into a log and sliced up then baked. These cinnamon roll cookies follow the same technique. The bread is the cookie dough and the filling is the same brown sugar and Cinnamon.

See Picture Guide below on how to make cinnamon roll cookies

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Ingredient list for these cinnamon roll cookies.

  • All purpose flour or gluten free flour if you are gluten free.
  • Commercial brown sugar or homemade brown sugar
  • Ground Cinnamon

Tools you need to make these cinnamon roll cookies.

  • A nice rolling pin with adjustable measurement rings to ensure you get evenly rolled Cookies.
  • Rolling Pin Rings. If you already have a rolling pin like this one. You can buy these rolling pin rings.
  • Parchment paper or Silicon mat
  • Kitchen timer
  • Cooling rack
  • Plastic wrap
  • Cookie sheet

 

As you can see, these are easier to make than you thought. Hope you would be giving these a try soon. And if you do, don’t forget to Leave a comment below so we can hear all about it.

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Easy Cinnamon Roll Cookies

Cinnamon roll cookies!! That cinnamony brown sugar goodness you love in homemade cinnamon rolls is right here in your cookies yay!!!
Prep Time11 mins
Cook Time15 mins
refrigerating the dough2 hrs
Total Time26 mins
Course: Snack
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cinnamon rolls
Servings: 15 (makes 30 Cookies)
Calories: 277kcal
Author: Chichi Uguru

Ingredients

For Cookies

  • 1 Cup 2 sticks salted butter
  • 1 Cup granulated white sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 3 cups all purpose flour

For filling

  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 Tbsp ground cinnamon

Instructions

The dough

  • Cream butter and sugar till fluffy,
  • Add the vanilla extract and beat in the egg.
  • Add the flour and baking powder. Mix till dough comes together.
  • Divide dough into two and wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours

The filling

  • Mix brown sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl and set aside
  • After 2 hrs, bring out dough and roll into a 10 by 10 inch square brush the surface lightly with egg white or water then spread some brown sugar and cinnamon mixture evenly on the surface.
  • Roll up tightly, wrap in a plastic wrap again and refrigerate for about 30 minutes.
  • Repeat process for second dough.

Baking the cookies

  • Preheat oven to 350*F
  • Get the dough logs out of the refrigerator, slice the dough into quarter inch circles.
  • Transfer to a lined baking sheet and bake for 15 mins
  • Allow to cool. Enjoy

Notes

 

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Comments

  1. Sabrina

    January 7, 2019 at 2:46 pm

    5 stars
    This is exactly what I need today with my afternoon coffee! They make the house smell amazing too! BONUS!

    Reply
    • Chichi Uguru

      January 7, 2019 at 2:51 pm

      Exactly it. Thanks Sabrina ?

      Reply
  2. sue | the view from great island

    January 7, 2019 at 2:42 pm

    Your swirls look so perfect, these are going on next year’s Christmas cookie list!

    Reply
    • Chichi Uguru

      January 7, 2019 at 2:52 pm

      Thanks Sue ?! That would be awesome

      Reply
  3. kim

    January 7, 2019 at 2:26 pm

    5 stars
    So festive and delicious! These are my new favorite holiday cookie!

    Reply
    • Chichi Uguru

      January 7, 2019 at 2:52 pm

      ?

      Reply
    • Chichi Uguru

      January 7, 2019 at 2:53 pm

      Thanks Kim

      Reply
  4. ali randall

    January 7, 2019 at 2:22 pm

    5 stars
    My kids would be all over this recipe. They love sweet rolls and put that together in a cookie? Yes I’ll take a dozen…YUM

    Reply
    • Chichi Uguru

      January 7, 2019 at 2:23 pm

      Oh yes they would lol. My kids are always all over these ?. Thanks

      Reply
  5. Kate

    January 7, 2019 at 2:08 pm

    5 stars
    I love this merging of cinnamon rolls and cookies! They look great with the festive coloured sugar too.

    Reply
    • Chichi Uguru

      January 7, 2019 at 2:24 pm

      Thanks Kate ?

      Reply

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