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This Giant Cinnamon Roll Cookie Cake has all the delicious flavors of a cinnamon roll in cookie form. Just like a classic cinnamon roll, this breakfast cookie is covered in a sweet vanilla glaze! It’s so good!
For another tasty cinnamon cake, you have to try my scrumptious Cinnamon Roll Snack Cake!
So we all have our things that we are a bit anal about, right? I think I have a few. But the one that the hubs makes fun of pretty much every night is my obsession with our sheets and covers on our bed.
For some reason, our fitted sheet won’t really ever stay in place. We’ve even tried different sheets and it’s always the same. Every morning, it’s moved around and wrinkly underneath me. So before we go to bed, I always fix it. Always. I’ve even made the hubs get out of bed after he’s laid down so that I can fix it.
After 5 years, he seems to finally be over being annoyed by it and now just laughs and gives me a hard time. He calls me the “Cover Nazi”, inspired by the “Soup Nazi” from Seinfeld. 🙂
I go around to each of the 4 corners and re-tuck and smooth them. Then I make sure the sheet and comforter are lined up at the top corners so they are the same length when I pull up on them. If they are un-even, or the fitted sheet is all wrinkly underneath me, I can’t deal. Drives me crazy.
So there you have it. I am a little crazy, but the hubs loves me anyways. You can’t accuse me of not having a strong opinion on sheets.
And now that’d I’m done revealing my craziness, lets talk about this cookie cake. It’s not crazy in the way that I am, just crazy good.
I’ve been marinated the idea of a cinnamon roll cookie cake in my head for quite some time. That’s the usual course of an idea for me.
Then I remembered this deliciousness, Giant Cinnamon Roll Cake by Sally’s Baking Addiction, and decided to apply the same concept to a cookie cake. I knew I’d love it and I was right!
How to Make The Best Cinnamon Roll Cake
While it takes a little time to make, it’s not hard. It starts with a regular cookie dough. The cookie dough is cut into strips and rolled into a cookie cake right in the pan.
Using shorter strips helps a lot with moving the dough around. And keeping it cold and firm is also important. You’ll start from the center and work your way out.
It won’t actually reach the edge of the pan completely, but it will expand to fill the pan as it bakes.
Once covered with the glaze, it really is like eating a denser, cookie-like cinnamon roll. It’s FULL of cinnamon! And like a good cinnamon roll, it must have plenty of glaze. 🙂 This is easily one of my favorite cookie cakes. So yummy!
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- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 22 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 37 minutes
- Yield: 12-14 slices
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
This Giant Cinnamon Roll Cookie Cake has all the delicious flavors of a cinnamon roll in cookie form. Just like a classic cinnamon roll, this breakfast cookie is covered in a sweet vanilla glaze! It’s so good!
Ingredients
COOKIE
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 1 tsp baking soda
CINNAMON ROLL FILLING
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 tbsp cinnamon
- 2 tbsp butter
GLAZE
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 4 tsp milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Slice
- Calories: 264
- Sugar: 21.3 g
- Sodium: 99.7 mg
- Fat: 12.1 g
- Carbohydrates: 36.9 g
- Protein: 2.5 g
- Cholesterol: 43.8 mg
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Enjoy!
I don’t have any 8 inch cake pans. Can I use a 9 inch pan instead?
Sure, it’ll just be a thinner cookie cake.
Okay, good. Thank you!
Hi! Can this cookie cake be made as a number, as in a cutout cookie cake?
Hi, did you use a wider strip for the outside? Yours looks like it has a pie crust to it?
No, the edges just bake a little taller than the inside because of the way the heat hits the outside of the pan while it bakes.
Hello,
Am I able to substitute the cornstarch for more flour?
Thanks!
You could really just leave it out, if you like.
hello i was thinking of making this how would you suggest making it dairy and gluten free and maybe lowering the portion size to about 4-5 people?
I’m hoping to do two layers of this as a birthday cake for my son next weekend, but don’t really want to go through the work of swirling it, so I thought to just put in half the dough, add melted butter, pour on the filling, then put on the other half of the dough. Do you think that would work fine? Also, would i still need to line the cake pan with foil?
That should work fine – just leave a border around the edges without the filling so the two layers stick together at the edge. You won’t have as much of the cinnamon flavor, but it should be fine. You should be ok without lining the pan. I’d still put some parchment paper in the bottom though, to help prevent sticking.
I found this recipe last night and was eager to make it this morning, it was a bit tedious and although mine didn’t come out as neat as yours, it was delicious. Very light but so flavorful, it really did taste like a cinnamon bun. One question: did you use clear vanilla extract? i used the brown version and it made my glaze a beige color – still yummy though. (:
I used the brown vanilla as well. It does tint the icing – it might just look whiter in the photos. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Oh my gosh Lindsay, this is brilliant!! Love. at. first. sight!! 🙂
Thanks Renee!
Ha! Everyone has their quarks 🙂 Yummy cookie!
I was looking for a fairly light but still richly flavorful giant-cinnamon-roll-cookie-cake recipe and it is PERFECTION. I need to make some ASAP…
I totally need to crawl up onto my couch with this cake this weekend! Yum.
This is quite possibly the best idea for a cookie cake that I have ever seen! Seriously I want to live in your head…I think I’d be quite happy in there with all these ideas for yumminess! I only have one question. Is there any left?
ps- you just may be the Sheet Nazi. 🙂
Seriously Lindsay. OMG!!!!!
This is such a unique cake. The glaze looks really good.
I want a big giant bite of this!!! I just might have to make this tomorrow!!
Now this is my kind of cake Lindsay! Pinned!
Your father is in “drool” mode. Better save some for the cake grave yard! This is a thing of beauty! Good job, Sunshine!
Your swirls are perfect, you must have magic hands 🙂
OK. I want this right now. Looks delish! Thanks for the recipe. Pinned 🙂
Sigh. Lindsay, this is beyond any cookie cake I’ve ever dreamed about! It’s so beautiful. And inspired. And everything wonderful in this world!