Cute little Cinnamon Roll Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Icing will satisfy your cinnamon roll cravings without nearly as much effort! Great for dunking in coffee!
With the 5-10-30 Free E-Cookbook’s release there has been far too much savory food on my mind and in the kitchen recently! These cookies are a nice departure from all the chicken, turkey and carrots I’ve been working with! They were so much easier than I expected them to be. Then again I was expecting to spend a lot of time in the kitchen since my favorite recipe (Flour’s Cinnamon Rolls) for cinnamon rolls takes a fair bit of time to make! We love cinnamon here, especially cinnamon rolls as you can tell by the Cinnamon Roll Pancakes and the Cinnamon Roll Coffee Cake.
This recipe was a breeze, my oldest helped with the buttering and sprinkling of sugar and cinnamon. The most harrowing part was watching them like a hawk in the oven because I wanted to catch them when they were baked but not at all browned.
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CINNAMON ROLL SUGAR COOKIES are so delicious and simple to make!😍😋
INGREDIENTS
FOR THE COOKIES:
1 cup butter , softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 Tablespoon vanilla
3 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
FOR THE FROSTING:
4 ounces cream cheese , softened
8 Tablespoons butter , softened
2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1-2 teaspoons milk or cream , as needed
additional cinnamon , for sprinkling
INSTRUCTIONS:
In a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer, beat together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, followed by the vanilla, and mix well. Add the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt and mix until a firm dough forms. Chill for 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 375ºF. Roll the dough into one inch balls and place on baking sheets lined with parchment. Flatten each ball slightly with your hand or with a drinking glass to be about 1/3-1/2 inch thick. Bake 7-9 minutes or until the bottom edges are just slightly golden brown. Remove to a cooling rack and let cool before frosting.
To make the frosting, beat together the cream cheese and butter until light and fluffy. Add the powdered sugar and beat until smooth. Add the vanilla and milk as needed to reach desired consistency. Beat until light and fluffy. Pipe onto cooled cookies in a spiral shape and sprinkle with cinnamon.
Enjoy.