Cinnamon Roll Cookies

My Secret Recipe Club group is taking a break the month of December, but I jumped at the opportunity to participate in the Secret Recipe Club Cookie Carnival 2014! Like the Secret Recipe Club, each participant was assigned a blog to secretly search through and try a recipe. Instead of picking any recipe on the blog, we had to choose a cookie recipe!

I was assigned It’s Yummi. Chef Becca, of It’s Yummi, is in a different Secret Recipe Club group than me, so this was the first chance I got to explore her blog. Chef Becca is a formally trained chef from Wisconsin who created her blog to provide healthy and fresh recipe ideas for those on a budget, with the occasional sweet treat thrown in. I obviously focused on the sweet treats for the Cookie Carnival. She has so many cookie recipes to choose from! I made these Cinnamon Roll Cookies for family visiting during Thanksgiving and by the end of the week, there wasn’t a single cookie leftover! Other great cookie recipes I have pinned for later include: Pomegranate Cheesecake Cookies, Chai Snickerdoodle Cookie Bites, Finnish Almond Log Cookies, Strawberry Lemon Linzer Cookies, Molasses Crinkle Cookies, and Peppermint Meringue Pillow Cookies.

This is a great cookie dough for those who have children helping. No chilling necessary and the dough doesn’t easily fall apart. Evan loved rolling the ropes in the cinnamon sugar (he was a little on the overzealous side and the sugar may or may not have ended up in other areas of the kitchen too).

Cinnamon Roll Cookies
Adapted from It’s Yummi, from Taste of Home

 

Cinnamon Sugar:
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup granulated sugar
Dough:
1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1 1/4 cup granulated sugar
3 egg yolks
1 tablespoon honey
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
8 ounces white chocolate for drizzling, melted

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment or lightly grease. In a wide bowl, combine cinnamon and 1/2 cup sugar.

In a large bowl, beat together butter and 1 1/4 cups sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in egg yolks, honey, and vanilla. Slowly add the flour, baking powder, salt, and cream of tartar until smooth.

Roll a heaping tablespoon of dough into a 6 inch rope. Roll the rope in the prepared cinnamon sugar and form the rope into a spiral. Place on prepared baking sheet about 1 1/2 inches apart and repeat with remaining dough. Bake in preheated oven until set and golden on bottom, 8-10 minutes. Allow to cool to room temperature on wire rack.

Once cool, drizzle the cookies with melted white chocolate. Allow to cool until set, then store in airtight container.