{"id":22726,"date":"2014-12-10T06:40:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T11:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecakeblog.com\/?p=22726"},"modified":"2022-11-14T12:03:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T17:03:33","slug":"pie-crust-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecakeblog.com\/2014\/12\/pie-crust-cookies.html","title":{"rendered":"Pie Crust Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pie Crust Cookies! Pie crust coated in cinnamon sugar and rolled into pinwheel cookies for the holidays. A Christmas cookie tradition.<\/p>\n

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We all have those family recipes – the ones that are made year after year, lovingly passed from one generation to the next – and scarfed down in about 3 seconds flat.\u00a0 The ones that you’d throw down with your own sister for, if she tried to snatch the last one.\u00a0 This is one of those recipes.\u00a0 We affectionately call these little babies Pie Crust Cooookies!<\/p>\n

I can’t claim these mini swirls of flaky cinnamon-sugar-goodness as my own, but that’s the great thing about being married.\u00a0 What’s mine is yours and what’s yours is mine.\u00a0 You see, this recipe comes from Mr. Sellman’s side of the family.\u00a0 I’m pretty certain every time we travel to visit his family, my mother-in-law has a bowl of these waiting for us.\u00a0 At least, I generally like to think they are for me too.\u00a0 But Mr. Sellman tends to believe the entire bowl was created for him and him alone.<\/p>\n

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Thank goodness this family recipe was lovingly passed on to me because I cannot count the batches of pie crust cookies that I’ve made over the years.\u00a0 Thank you Nana! We love you!\u00a0 And as each batch disappears, the recipe requests pour in.\u00a0 Up until now, there was no written recipe with actual measurements to give, just a general technique.\u00a0 Years ago, I tried to explain it all to my sister so that she could bake up a batch of her own… but something got VERY LOST in our recipe telephone-game.\u00a0 She called, confused and frustrated, with a long log of baked pie crust which was crumbling into a flaky mess when she tried to cut it.\u00a0 The big takeaway for me here – emphasize the order of events.\u00a0 Brush.\u00a0 Sprinkle.\u00a0 Roll.\u00a0 Cut.\u00a0 THEN bake!<\/p>\n

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Now, let the popping begin!\u00a0 These little guys define ‘poppable’ because before you know it, you’ve popped the entire batch right into your pie hole.\u00a0 One.\u00a0 Two. Three.\u00a0 Twenty!\u00a0 Have I just eaten an entire pie crust in cookie form?\u00a0 Quite possibly!\u00a0 But it’s Christmas, so we’ll just pass right over THAT little detail and go back to pie-crust-cookie-eating.<\/p>\n

One year, I started a grass roots campaign to rename this little family treasure.\u00a0 Pie Crust Cookies just seemed to say too much.\u00a0 Let’s leave a little to the imagination so we can savor the warmth of the cinnamon, and be pleasantly surprised by the delicate flake of golden brown pie crust caramelized with sweet, sweet sugar.\u00a0 We came up with the name Pauline’s Pinwheels, giving credit where credit is due, to Mr. Sellman’s grandmother who originally made these from the extra scraps of left over pie crust.\u00a0 Who knew that decades later we’d be making batches of pie crust (or purchasing ready-made pie crust, shhh) just to make these cookies.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the new name never stuck.\u00a0 And while I sat around pondering the perfect name – the bowl of Pie Crust Cookies disappeared.<\/p>\n

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No matter what you call them – I hope you give them a try.\u00a0 I have a feeling you’ll stand guard at the Pie Crust Cookie bowl for decades to come.<\/p>\n

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