Cinnamon Roll Cookies
These Cinnamon Roll Cookies are show-stoppingly good. The base is a sugar cookie dough that is soft and chewy but has crunchy edges. The cinnamon roll goo spotted throughout the dough is the same recipe I use in my cinnamon rolls! If you really want to emulate that cinnamon roll flavor even further, you can top them with a cream cheese glaze.
Cinnamon Roll Cookies
These Cinnamon Roll Cookies are a sugar cookie and a cinnamon roll combined. A cinnamon roll filling is mixed into soft and chewy cookie dough to give you that cinnamon roll taste. You can even top them with a cream cheese glaze!
Cook Time1 hour
Servings 12 cookies
Equipment
- 1 Standmixer
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 318 grams
- 1/4 cup bread flour 33 grams
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature 224 grams
- 1 cup + 2 tbsp granulated sugar 233 grams
- 2 tbsp light brown sugar 28 grams
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Cinnamon Roll Filling
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup dark or light brown sugar 100 grams
- 3/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour 9 grams
Cream Cheese Glaze (optional)
- 2 oz cream cheese 56 grams
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 28 grams
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar 84 grams
- 3-4 tablespoons whole milk to thin
Instructions
Make the Cinnamon Filling
- By hand (with fervor) or with an electric mixer, combine all ingredients until thick paste forms.
- Using your hands, drop teaspoons of this mixture onto a parchment lined baking sheet and freeze until solid. These solids will be mixed into your completed dough. Keep frozen until ready to use.
Make the Cookie Dough
- In a medium bowl, combine all of the dry ingredients for the cookie dough (do not include the cinnamon filling here).
- In the bowl of a standmixer, combine butter and sugars. Beat on medium until light and fluffy, about 6 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and mix again for 1 minute.
- Add in egg and vanilla, scraping sides of the bowl before the addition. Mix until combined.
- Add in all dry ingredients and mix for 1 minute or until thoroughly combined. Dough will be thick.
- Into the standmixer, drop in the frozen cinnamon filling balls, Mix very quickly in standmixer until JUST combined. Too much filling as compared to dough will cause the cookies to spread. Cover and let dough rest for in the refrigerator at least 30 minutes.
- Prepare a cookie sheet with parchment paper Scoop cookies into 2.5 tablespoon sized balls about 3 inches apart.. Have a circular cookie cutter handy to help form dough into perfect circles.
- Preheat oven to 350F. Bake cookies for 11-15 minutes OR until the edges are set. Don't worry if cookies look like they are spreading and no longer circular, let them cook through and when you remove them from the oven, use the circle cookie cutter to form them into a circle shape. Let rest.
Cream Cheese Glaze
- Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl except milk. Mix with a hand mixer until there are no lumps.
- Add in milk and mix again until desired consistency is achieved!
I really wanted to love these cookies because they sounded sooo good and I love your page. But I’m not sure about the size/temp/cooking time. For 3 tbsp sized cookes at 10 minutes they came out very raw, I had to increase to 15-18 minutes for mine to be even semi cooked through. Did I go wrong somewhere?
Hi Alex! I am so sorry to hear this. I have noticed that the cooking time is varying drastically from person to person, so i am going to reexamine this one. I hear you that a big 3 tbps cookie and 10 minutes didn’t bake correctly. I hope the second batch at 15 still came out okay! I will definitely be looking at this issue this week and making adjustments! So sorry again.
These cookies came out amazing, a huge hit at my family’s holiday party! Highly recommend making the glaze to go on top, it really elevates the cookie
Can the dough be frozen?
I love your videos and recipes! Can I make this dough ahead of time and freeze it? I want to put them in my Christmas cookie boxes. If you remember, could you mention if freezing ahead is possible with all of your Christmas cookies? Thank you 🥰
Yes! These can be frozen. Just scoop in advance onto a parchment sheet and then place balls into a ziplock bag!