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Cinnamon Roll Cookies

Cinnamon Roll Cookies

A weekend Belgium dessert. Ready in about 1 hour 18 minutes. Difficulty: more effort.

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Ingredients

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  • 11 oz all-purpose flour Shopping tip: All-purpose flour (UK: plain flour).
  • 8 oz unsalted butter
  • 3 ¾ oz superfine sugar Shopping tip: Superfine sugar (UK: caster). Regular sugar works.
  • 1 egg
  • 1 ⅓ oz brown sugar
Spices & seasonings (2): salt, ground cinnamon
  • Pinch salt
  • 2 ½ tsp ground cinnamon

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

  1. 1) In a large bowl, mix the butter and caster sugar until creamy.

  2. Add your egg and a pinch of salt.

  3. 2) Stir into a buttery mixture.

  4. Add the sifted flour.

  5. 3) Whisk well.

  6. End up with a smooth dough.

  7. Cover it using a piece of plastic wrap.

  8. Put your dough in the fridge for 15 min to chill and set.

  9. 4) In the meantime mix the cassonade and the cinnamon.

  10. 5) move the dough onto a floured surface.

  11. Knead it for a minute.

  12. Add extra flour if necessary.

  13. Roll the dough out into a nice rectangle.

  14. It should be around ⅕-inch (5 mm) thick.

  15. Sprinkle with the sugary cinnamon mixture.

  16. 6) start rolling the dough up.

  17. If it's too sticky, put it in your fridge again for a couple of minutes.

  18. Wrap it up tightly in plastic wrap.

  19. 7) Put it in your fridge for 30 min to chill and set.

  20. Remove the cling film.

  21. Cut the dough roll into even slices.

  22. 8) Place your slices on baking paper lined baking tray.

  23. Bake the cookies in a heat the oven at 356°F.

  24. Keep going for 14 to 16 minutes.

  25. 9) Let your baked cinnamon roll cookies cool down before eating or wrapping them up.

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Recipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.