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Churro Cookies with Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting

Course Cookies, Desserts
Prep Time 1 minute
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 46 minutes
Servings 56 -60 sandwich cookies

Ingredients

Cinnamon Sugar Pastry:

  • 1 cup unsalted butter cold
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/3 cup heavy whipping
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 1/2 tbs cinnamon stick

Caramel Cream Cheese Buttercream:

  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
  • 2 oz cream cheese full fat
  • 1/4 cup caramel sauce thick at room temperature
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 cups confectioners sugar

Instructions

  • Measure butter and flour into a large mixing bowl. Cut butter into flour using a pastry cutter. (Alternatively, you can pulse in a food processor until pea-sized crumbs form.) Add cream and softly mix just until dough comes together. Press into a ball, wrap in plastic wrap, and chill 20 minutes.
  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • Sprinkle flour over a counter top and roll 1/2 of dough out to 1/8 inch thick. (Sprinkle hands or rolling pin with flour, if needed.) Use a 1 1/2-inch round cookie or biscuit cutter to cut the dough into as many rounds as you can fit. (Keep rest of dough refrigerated until ready to roll it out.) Place rounds onto an ungreased baking sheet and prick each round with a fork 4 times, so air can escape. (You can place the cookies very close together--they do not spread.)
  • Bake 10 minutes--if you see some of the cookies start to brown around the edge, remove the pan from the oven. Move cookies to a wire rack.
  • Stir cinnamon and sugar together in a small bowl. Use a spoon to sprinkle cinnamon sugar over the cookies, while they are still warm. (The warm butter will help the cinnamon sugar stick to the cookies.)
  • While first batch is baking, gather scrap dough from first round, roll out, and repeat cutting rounds of dough out. Repeat process with the remaining dough. (Do not re-roll scraps more than twice--the pastry will become tough.) Allow cookies to cool completely on a wire rack.
  • Make frosting by mixing butter, cream cheese, caramel, vanilla, and powdered sugar. Place a small dollop of frosting on the underside of a cookie and sandwich together with another cookie. Store cookies in an airtight container in the refrigerator and allow to come to room temperature before serving.

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