The Cutest Little Cookie Ever!

We love cinnamon buns around here, but I have to tell you that I’ve never made homemade cinnamon buns.  Pillsbury does it so well that I’ll just bake some of those up for the kids (okay, for me-who are we kidding) and we all enjoy them on the occasional cozy Saturday morning.

However, I found a recipe that makes the cutest little cinnamon bun cookies!  Besides being absolutely adorable, and I mean you really do want to tickle them under the chin and play peek-a-boo with them, they taste very doughy and yummy.  I think they taste best within the first few days of baking them though.

First make your dough (recipe at the bottom).  Then you are going to take teaspoonfuls of the dough and roll them into little snake shapes, about 6 inches long.


Then dredge your snake in a cinnamon-sugar mixture.


And coil it into a cute wittle cinnamon bun shape!


Fill up your cookie sheet and bake.


After they’ve cooled, drizzle them with a little melted frosting or melted white chocolate…


They look ginormous, but they’re each only about two inches wide.  Perfect with a cup of coffee for breakfast or  for a bake sale or to pack in school lunches!

Mini Cinnamon Bun Cookies

1 c. butter, softened

1-3/4 c. sugar, divided

3 egg yolks

1 T. honey

1 t. vanilla

2-1/2 c. flour

1 t. baking powder

1/2 t. salt

1/2 t. cream of tartar

1 T cinnamon

Drizzle:  8 oz. white baking chocolate or a can of vanilla frosting

In a large bowl, cream butter and 1-1/4 c. sugar.  Beat in egg yolks, honey, and vanilla.  Combine the flour, baking powder, salt, and cream of tartar, gradually add to the creamed mixture.

In a shallow bowl, combine cinnamon and remaining sugar. Shape a heaping teaspoonful of dough into a six inch long snake.  Roll snake in cinnamon-sugar.  Loosely coil snake into a spiral shape and place on a greased cookie sheet.  Repeat, placing cookies 1 inch apart.  Sprinkle with remaining cinnamon sugar.

Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes or until set.  Do not overbake to brown.  Remove to wire racks to cool  In a small bowl, melt chocolate or canned frosting.  Place in a ziploc bag with a small hole cut into corner of bag.  Drizzle over cookies and let stand until set.

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