Tips and Tricks for Making This Cinnabon Cookies Recipe:
- Handling raw dough is not always easy. It would be sticking to your hands. The best way to avoid this is to rub a small amount of oil or butter to your hands so the dough won’t stick to them.
- If you do not have a non-stick baking pan, it is best to line your baking pan with a parchment paper. It is so much easier to take out your cinnabon cookies after baking.
- Before pouring the glaze to your cinnabon cookies, wait for a good ten to fifteen minutes. Cooling the cinnabon cookies will prevent the glaze from being too watery and the glaze adheres better to a cooler surface.
How to Make this Cinnabon Cookies Recipe:
Before starting off with mixing the ingredients for the Cinnabon cookies, preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease an 8-inch square baking dish and add parchment paper for easy removal.
Let’s begin!
In a large bowl add butter, vanilla extract, salt, and powdered sugar:
Mix until light and fluffy:
Add flour and continue mixing:
Place cookie dough onto wax paper and roll out cookie dough to 9×13:
Pour milk and spread onto cookie dough and add cinnamon sugar mix onto the cookie dough:
Roll into a log, just like so:
Cover with wax paper or and saran wrap then place in freezer for one hour or until hard before slicing into bite-sized cookies:
Remove from freezer and slice into cookie bites, place on the mat and bake at 350F for 10 minutes.
Cool the Cinnabon cookies on a wire rack and after 10 minutes or so, pour over the sugar glaze on each cookie! This would bring your cinnabon cookies to a higher level of goodness!
Frequently Asked Questions for Cinnabon Cookies Recipe:
Q: I want to make these ahead for an occasion. How many days can I keep these in the freezer?
A: Prepping in advance is great. You can keep this cinnabon cookies dough for 1-2 weeks.
Q: I do not have parchment paper. Can I use foil instead?
A: Yes, the foil can be used for baking. Foil also helps you take out the cinnabon cookies easily after baking.
Cinnabon Cookies

Ingredients
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/4 cups granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon milk
- for the icing
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon milk
Instructions
- In large bowl add butter, vanilla extract, salt, powdered sugar and mix until light and fluffy.
- Add flour and continue mixing.
- Place cookie dough onto wax paper and roll out cookie dough to 9×13.
- Pour milk and spread onto cookie dough and add cinnamon sugar mix onto the cookie dough.
- Roll into a log, cover with wax and saran plastic, place in freezer for one hour or until hard.
- Remove from freezer and slice into cookie bites, place on the mat and bake at 350F for 10 minutes.
Hey Lainey! I made these cookies and my family LOVED them! I am REALLY bad at baking but these turned out to be my best cookies! I just have a few questions, how long can you leave them in the freezer and do you have to let them thaw out if you leave them in too long? My cookies tasted great but, before I put them in the oven, I have to arrange them because they fell apart! Any tips on how to fix that? Thank you SOOOO much! 🙂
Hi Anna! Woohoo!! I’m so glad it turned out great! Yes, these cookies are very delicate, don’t move them when the cookies are hot. Move them when they are completely cooled. 🙂 xx
I’m planning to make these for a cookie exchange and I need 6 dozen. Approx how many cookies do you get with this recipe? Thanks!
Hi Julie! For this recipe, I made half a dozen or 6 pcs of cookies… :)Xx
Make some more yummy and easy recipes! I love them, Lainey!
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Yes, I will Bonnie! Thanks for swinging by!
I had the same issue as Anna- after I sliced them and tried to put on cookie tray… BEFORE baking, they fell apart. When you say cut into cookie bites, what do you mean?
Hi Lisa! Sorry for the late response. What I meant by cut into cookie bites is that cut or shape them into bite-sized cookies.