What do you do with extra pie crust? My grandma taught me to makepie crust pinwheels! These homemade pie crust, butter, cinnamon, and sugar treats are so yummy I’ve been known to whip up a batch of ourbest pie crust just to eat thesepinwheel cookies! You’ve got to try thisleftover pie crust recipes!
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Pie Crust Pinwheels
I have such sweet memories making pies with my grandma growing up. She was an amazing cook – everything she made was homemade, filled with love, and perfect every time. She never seemed to need a recipe and everything always turned out just right. One of my favorite things about making homemade pies what what she did with the leftover pie scraps – you know the part you trip from the sides and don’t know what to do with. She made it into a couplepie crust pinwheels. Unless you make a wholeeasy pie crust recipe, it only makes a few – but since they cook in just a couple minutes you get to enjoy them while your pie bakes. I mean asking a child to wait over an hour to taste yummy homemade pie is a tall order! We would eat our pie crust cookiesat the kitchen table and chat.
Leftover pie crust recipes
Now that I’m a mom myself, I get to create these memories with my kids. I love this simple treat so much I knew I had to share ourleftover pie crust cookies. So you can use your leftover pie crust, or whip up a whole batch by making more pie crust with the following ingredients:
- 2 cups flour
- ¾ teas salt
- 2/3 cup shortening (I use blue crisco)
- 7-8 TAB ice-cold water
Cinnamon roll cookie recipe
Use leftover pie crust or whip up a batch of homemade pie crust by mixing flour and salt in a bowl, cutting in shortening and then adding ice cold water until you get a ball. Now roll out the dough into a thin rectangle. In a medium bowl mix 1 stick of softened butter with 1 cup white sugar and 1-2 teaspoons cinnamon. Sprinkle your mixture on the pie crust evenly.
Pie crust cookies
Roll the pie crust tightly along the more narrow side.
Carefully slice with rolled up dough with a bread knife to make a cinnamon roll looking cookie.
Pinwheel cookies
Put on a parchment lined cookie sheet and use yoru hadn to press down to flatten slightly. They won’t spread really as there is no rising ingredient in the dough so you can put them semi-close together. Put them in the oven at whatever temperature your pie needs to cook, typically 400 F or more. It only takes 5-10 minutes depending on thickness ot get these set and lightly browned. There is nothing in them that needs to thoroughly cook, so you are just cooking until they are set.
Cinnamon roll cookies
Remove from oven and cool just until you can handle them, just 3 -5 minutes.
Enjoy eating these cinnamon roll cookies while you wait for your pie to cook or as a delicious cookie recipe anyday!
Cinnamon swirl cookies
These are so yummy my kids beg me to make these even if there is no pie baking!
Leftover pie crust cookies
The slightly flaky cookie combined with the sweet sugar and cinnamon mixture is such a delicious, satisfying flavor that appeals to kids and adults alike! Yum!
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- Amazing Bread Machine Cinnamon Rolls
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- BEST Sweet Chili Recipe
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- Best ever Tomato Soup with bacon
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- Creamy Avocado Egg Salad Sandwich
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- Delicious Homemade Tortilla Recipe
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Appetizers
- Pepperoni Cheeseball Game Day Appetizers
- Easy, Homemade Oven Baked Caramel Popcorn
- My famous pineapple cream cheese dip
- Zesty Spinach Artichoke Dip
- Our GO TO Salsa Recipe with gardne fresh tomatoes
- Grab your veggies, they are going to want to take a dunk in this Southwestern Dip
- Family Favorite appetizer meatballs with super quick secret sauce!
- Quick Pineapple Salsa made from scratch
- Sweet and Sour Bacon and Water Chestnut Appetizer
- Go to Peanut Butter Dip for Apples
- Quick and EASY Bagel Dip
- Homemade Apple Hand Pies with carmel dipping sauce
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Breads and Side Dishes
- Super Moist Southern Cornbread recipe with creamed corn
- Easy Bread Machine Hamurger Buns
- Super Yummy Quick Yeast Rolls
- Southern Corn Spoon Bread
- Rosemary Crock pot Bread
- Sweet Potato Sourdough Buns
- Delicious Yeastless Bread – quick bread recipe no yeast
- Holiday Green Bean Casserole
- Smoked Green Beans – cook in the oven or smoker
- Best Sweet Potato Casserole
- Family Favorite Cornbread Stuffing
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Leftover Pie Crust Pinwheel Cookies
Beth Gorden
What do you do with extra pie crust? My grandma taught me to makepie crust pinwheels! These homemade pie crust, butter, cinnamon, and sugar treats are so yummy I've been known to whip up a batch of ourbest pie crust just to eat thesepinwheel cookies! You've got to try thisleftover pie crust recipes!
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Course Dessert
Cuisine cookies
Ingredients
Pie Crust
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2/3 cup shortening
- 7-8 Tablespoons ice cold water
Cinnamon Pinwheel Cookie
- 1 stick butter softened
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1-2 teaspoons cinnamon
Instructions
Use leftover pie crust or whip up a batch of homemade pie crust by mixing flour and salt in a bowl, cutting in shortening and then adding ice cold water until you get a ball. Now roll out the dough into a thin rectangle. In a medium bowl mix 1 stick of softened butter with 1 cup white sugar and 1-2 teaspoons cinnamon. Sprinkle your mixture on the pie crust evenly.
Bake at 400 F (or whatever temperature your pie is cooking at) for 5-10 minutes or until set and lightly browned. Exact time depends on cookie thickness.
Beth Gorden
Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! She has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids ABCs, science, English grammar, history, math, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables - www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com. Beth studied at the University of Northwestern where she got a double major to make her effective at teaching children while making education FUN!
