Kids in the kitchen: Cinnamon sugar piecrust cookies
by Laura Falin posted in Life & Home
So I was making a pie crust from scratch last night...I should just stop there. Because right now you probably think I'm some kind of domestic goddess who smiles angelically at her children and sings and bakes pie crusts from scratch on days that aren't even Thanksgiving.
And the actual truth is this: it was almost dinnertime and we had nothing to eat except eggs and I'd rather make twelve pie crusts than take my cranky preschooler to the grocery store at 4:30pm. So I made a quiche. And it was a miserable failure that looked weird and tasted worse.
BUT...I did have a little extra pie crust dough that we made into cookies so even if no one got a good meal, we all had some tasty cookies to snack on. Silver linings.
I use the basic Betty Crocker pie crust recipe when I do make them from scratch. And really, they are done in less than 10 minutes. Pie crusts are one of those things that sound fancier and harder to make than they are...and the kids have a great time rolling out the dough and fitting it into the pie plate. I say try it once or twice, just to see. These cookies would work just as well with a refrigerated crust from the store, though.
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IÂ suppose they'd taste just as good if they didn't look like little hedgehogs...but anytime you have a chance to make tiny hedgehog cookies, I say do it.
Ingredients:
leftover pie crust dough (approximately 1/4 -1/2 of a r...
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