It is that time of year to get the oven busy baking cookies! I am a cookie baker by genetics, and I am sure my kids will be too! If there isn’t a fresh pan of cookies hitting the oven while the Christmas tree is up and Christmas Music is playing, well…it just isn’t Christmas Time!
Last year I did an online cookie swap so we could all share our favorite cookie recipes with each other! I love cookie swaps! This year…we are going to do it again! Each “Snack”urday now till Christmas I will post a new Christmas Cookie Recipe and the Cookie Swap Linky! Feel free to come by and share a link to your favorite cookie recipe if you have a blog. If you don’t have a blog feel free to share your recipe in the comments!
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Now that I have that out of the way….would you like to see how to make these Cinnamon Bun Cookies? Of course you would! 
Cinnamon Bun Cookies
Cinnamon Bun Cookies Printable Version
· 1 Pouch Betty Crocker Sugar cookie Mix
· ½ tsp. Ground Cinnamon
· ½ cup Butter or Margarine, softened
· 1 egg slightly beaten
· 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
Glaze
· 1 cup powdered sugar
· 2 Tbsp. milk
· ¼ tsp. vanilla
Heat oven to 375 degrees.
IN a large bowl, mix cookie mix, and ½ tsp. cinnamon. Stir in butter and egg until soft dough forms.
On a piece of waxed paper or a clean dry surface, shape 1 TBSP cinnamon into a line about 5 inches long.
Isn’t my pastry board so cool?!
Flour your fingers and shape 1 tsp. of cookie dough into a snake 5 inches long.
Gently press one side of dough snake against the cinnamon.
Coil the dough snake like a cinnamon bun tightly with cinnamon facing the center. Press the end of the dough to seal
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Place on a parchment covered cookie sheet 2 inches apart.
Bake 7-10 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool 1 minute then remove from cookie sheets to cooking rack. Cool completely about 15 minutes.
In a small bowl, mix glaze ingredients until smooth.
Drizzle over cookies. Make about 2 dozen
I know…these look amazing ….and they taste just as fabulous!
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my dough is always to sticky!!! =(
You have to flour your hands and board. I didn’t have that problem though. Hope you get it figured out.
I make cinnamon rolls often, and these sound great. I wonder if it would be less labor intensive to roll out the dough, sprinkle the cinnamon on, then roll and slice? This is how I do cinnamon rolls, and as I have dexterity issues I wonder if this would work.
Also, chilling the dough briefly might help make it less sticky.
Just made these tonight and they were SO YUMMY!
We are a gluten free house, so I used Cherrybrook Kitchen’s GF Sugar Cookie Mix -it’s Dairy Free too! – and it rocked! Thank you so much for all you do 
(Oh, I got the mix at a Super Target in case you want to make some GFDF ones!)
You are awesome! Thanks for the tip! I will totally be doing this! I have actually gone gluten free myself, and I am trying to make as many of my recipes as I can gluten free. It isn’t as easy as it looks
I love your pastry board! The cookies look yummy too!
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