Cookie Countdown Day 2!

COOKIE COUNTDOWN!  Cookie #2

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Today's cookie is....well, not REALLY a cookie.

But one bite of these melt-in-your-mouth spirals of buttery goodness, and you'll agree that they need to be on everyone's favorite cookie list!

(this is me, Beth, with my mom waaayyyy back when!)

Often our favorite cookies have a great childhood memory behind 'em.  

This one sure does.

 

(Don't you love the old aprons that everyone wore back then? I had my own    

     little apron---here's a pic---when I helped my grandma bake. I still have it...it's OLD!)

My mom and grandma were ALWAYS in the kitchen baking something. Every fall it was apple pies.  Not just one, or a couple.  I'm talking like FORTY or so.  To share with friends and family, and stockpile in the freezer.

And all that extra pie dough? Yep, that's what makes up these cookies.

'Cuz who doesn't love pie crust, butter, cinnamon & sugar?  Yum!

My sister and I would just wait until all those pie crusts were made, and it was time to make the CINNAMON ROLL COOKIES!

It's super easy.  Just roll out pie dough in a long rectangle, and slather with a thick layer of softened butter.  (Lots. Of. Butter.) and then sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. (LOTS of sugar!)

Roll up all that sugary-buttery goodness into a long tube, and then slice.

Plop them on a cookie sheet, and bake til the pie crust is done. All that sugar gets baked on and caramelized and crusty... mmm mmmmmm!

Not too technical of a recipe...but you get the idea.

You COULD take a shortcut, and use already prepared pie dough.  

But homemade is always better, isn't it?

Really, you should use my grandma's recipe.  It's the best.  

GRANDY's PIE CRUST

5 cups flour

2 1/2 cups shortening

1 tsp salt

(mix the above with a pastry blender)

1 egg

2 tsp vinegar

cold water

(mix the liquid ingredients to measure 1 cup. Mix into dough.)

Gently roll out to make 5 or 6 pie crusts.

(or just the right amount of cinnamon roll cookies!)

So when I DO bake pies (I do...sometimes!) then I always use THIS recipe, and I always make cinnamon roll cookies.

But sometimes, I just make the cookies.

And it always brings back great memories.

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