Description
These coffee cake cookies are a soft and chewy cinnamon base cookie filled with delicious streusel and drizzled with icing. The perfect breakfast cookie.
Ingredients
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Streusel
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- pinch of salt
Cookie Base
- 3/4 cups unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Icing
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon heavy cream
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside for later.
- Start by making the streusel topping. In a medium bowl combine the flour, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt. Whisk together. Cube the butter and add it into the mixture. Work it all together with your fingers until small clumps form. Cover and put the bowl in the refrigerator until later.
- Cream together the butter and sugar until smooth.
- Add in the egg and vanilla extract and mix until just combined.
- In a separate bowl combine the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Whisk together and then slowly add to your wet ingredients. Mix until a dough forms.
- Scoop the dough and roll into 11 large balls (unless you want smaller cookies). Place the dough balls on your prepared baking sheet.
- Use the back of a spoon to create an indent in each dough ball. Spoon approximately 1 tablespoon of the streusel filling into each of the indents on the cookies. Save the remaining streusel for sprinkling on top of the iced cookies later. (This is not necessary. It just makes them look extra pretty and who doesn’t love extra streusel?)
- Bake the cookies for 12-13 minutes or until the edges of the cookies are a slight golden color. The cookies will continue to bake on the baking sheet once you remove them from the oven.
- Remove the cookies from the oven and let cool on the baking sheet for approximately 10 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack or parchment paper to finish cooling.
- While the cookies are cooling whisk together the powdered sugar, heavy cream and vanilla to form the icing. Once the cookies are cooled, drizzle the icing over the top of the cookies. Sprinkle with the remaining streusel.
- Eat that cookie because they are oh so good!
Notes
- You must wait until the cookies are completely cooled to drizzle with icing. If the cookies are still warm the icing will just run off the cookie and you’ll be left with a hot mess.
- You want your indent in your cookie to be wide enough to hold about a tablespoon of streusel, but you don’t want it to be too deep.
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
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