What do you do with extra pie crust? My grandma taught me to make pie crust pinwheels! These homemade pie crust, butter, cinnamon, and sugar treats are so yummy I’ve been known to whip up a batch of our best pie crust just to eat these pinwheel cookies! You’ve got to try this leftover pie crust recipes!

What do you do with extra pie crust? My grandma taught me to make pie crust pinwheels! These homemade pie crust, butter, cinnamon, and sugar treats are so yummy I've been known to whip up a batch of our best pie crust just to eat these pinwheel cookies! You've got to try this leftover 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 couple pie crust pinwheels. Unless you make a whole easy 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 cookies at the kitchen table and chat.

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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 our leftover 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

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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.

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Pie crust cookies

Roll the pie crust tightly along the more narrow side.

Leftover pie crust cookies

Carefully slice with rolled up dough with a bread knife to make a cinnamon roll looking cookie.

Cinnamon roll cookies

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.

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Remove from oven and cool just until you can handle them, just 3 -5 minutes.

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Enjoy eating these cinnamon roll cookies while you wait for your pie to cook or as a delicious cookie recipe anyday!

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Cinnamon swirl cookies

These are so yummy my kids beg me to make these even if there is no pie baking!

What do you do with extra pie crust? My grandma taught me to make pie crust pinwheels! These homemade pie crust, butter, cinnamon, and sugar treats are so yummy I've been known to whip up a batch of our best pie crust just to eat these pinwheel cookies! You've got to try this leftover pie crust recipes!

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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Leftover pie crust? GREAT! Use it to whip up some of these pie crust cookies. These cinnamon pinwheel cookies are easy-to-make and so yummy!

Leftover Pie Crust Pinwheel Cookies

Beth Gorden
What do you do with extra pie crust? My grandma taught me to make pie crust pinwheels! These homemade pie crust, butter, cinnamon, and sugar treats are so yummy I've been known to whip up a batch of our best pie crust just to eat these pinwheel cookies! You've got to try this leftover pie crust recipes!
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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.

Leftover pie crust? GREAT! Use it to whip up some of these pie crust cookies. These cinnamon pinwheel cookies are easy-to-make and so yummy!

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

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  1. 5 stars
    THese are genius, thanks!

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  2. 5 stars
    Wow, those are good. So simple, but so tasty! =)

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  3. 5 stars
    WHy have I never thought of that. I see more pies in our future!

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  4. 5 stars
    These were insanely yummy. Thanks!

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  5. 5 stars
    My new favorite cookie

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  7. 5 stars
    Wow, I love this idea

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