Mom's Pie Crust Cookies
You can only imagine how buttery and flaky my mom’s pie crust cookies are until you make them. With layers of cinnamon sugar in between homemade pie crust, these cookies are perfect for the holidays.
Servings: 18 cookies (roughly)
Equipment
- Rolling Pin
Ingredients
Pie Crust
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup vegetable shortening (Crisco)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¾ cup cold water
Cinnamon Sugar Filling
- ⅔ cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a bowl, sift together flour, salt, and baking powder. Add shortening and cut into flour with a fork or pastry cutter.
- Add cold water slowly, starting with 1/4 cup water, and mix dough together with your hands just until the dough can be formed into a ball. Dough should be soft and not too sticky. You will likely need between ½ cup and ¾ cup of water to form the ball of dough depending on the time of year you make the dough and the moisture in your flour.
- Roll out dough with a rolling pin to about an 1/8 inch thick (about the thickness of a pie crust). Use a sharp knife to cut the rolled dough circle in half. Cut strips that are about 1 inch wide from the half sheets of dough. NOTE: You can also cut the dough into triangles and roll the triangles into little packages with cinnamon sugar in them. That’s how my mom does it!
- Mix cinnamon and sugar together. Generously sprinkle cinnamon and sugar mixture on all strips or triangles. There should be a generous coating on each.
- Roll strips into spirals so that the cinnamon and sugar mixture is inside of the spiral. If you choose triangles, you can pinch the ends of the cookies shut to the cinnamon-sugar stays inside!
- Place cookies on a greased baking sheet, and bake for 20-25 minutes, until just golden. Depending on the exact size of your cookies, you may need slightly less or more time. When the cookies just start to brown, they are done! Do not over-bake.
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Notes
- These cookies are THE BEST right out of the oven (instead of storing them baked). You can also store the cookies unbaked in the fridge for up to 3 days
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 156kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 1g | Sodium: 77mg | Potassium: 17mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 1IU | Vitamin C: 0.02mg | Calcium: 13mg | Iron: 1mg