Cinnamon Roll Sugar Cookies

Maybe I'm boring, but my favorite cookie in the world is a nice, soft sugar cookie, with sugar or a little icing on the top. When I was in college, I think I was the only person who went to the football games just to get a "cookie on a stick" with my meal plan.

Last winter, I saw a recipe on Picky Palate, an awesome food blog, for Cinnamon Roll Sugar Cookies and by the end of the week, I had made them. Delicious. Sugar cookie base + butter + brown sugar + cinnamon = goodness. They were a lot of work, so I did not make them again until this year, when my friend Stacey reminded me about them.

The recipe is fairly easy but the process of rolling and slicing takes some practice. The first roll I made did not roll up or slice very well. This happened last time too, and I wanted to cry. Fortunately, my friend April was over helping me this time, and she was reading the recipe much more carefully than I was and she realized you need to roll away from you, and that made all the difference... as did not rolling the dough out too think or trying to spread on butter that was not soft enough. I still have a lot to learn about baking.

Here are what the cookies looked like fresh out of the oven:
I may have eaten one or two... or three before I got around to icing them, but when I did, here was the finished product: