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    Home » baking with candy

    Dulce de leche cinnamon sugar cookies

    Published: Jan 20, 2023 by Hannah · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

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    These dulce de leche cookies use slow cooker dulce de leche and refrigerated sugar cookie dough. They are easy, impressive, and delicious. The sugar cookies are rolled in a cinnamon sugar mix, layered with a cinnamon white candy coating, and topped with irresistible dulce de leche.

    dulce de leche cinnamon cookies
    Dulce de leche cinnamon sugar cookies with a white cinnamon candy coating layer.

    Background content: is this popular at certain times of year? Special holidays?

    This was inspired by my can you make dulce de leche in the slower cooker post, a great resource for learning about dulce de leche and how different amounts of time in the slow cooker will change your finished product.

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    • Ingredients
    • Instructions
    • Variations
    • Equipment
    • Storage and shelf life
    • Top tip
    • Related
    • Pairing
    • Dulce de Leche cinnamon sugar cookies

    Ingredients

    I chose to use refrigerated sugar cookie dough because I didn't have time to make homemade sugar cookies, but you can certainly use your favorite homemade sugar cookie recipe! Please make sure to refrigerate the sugar cookie dough before baking. The cinnamon sugar blend is a 50/50 blend of cinnamon and white sugar.

    dulce de leche after different hours in slow cooker
    • refrigerated sugar cookie dough ( I used the Pillsbury brand)
    • white confectionery coating such as almond bark or Ghirardelli melting wafers
    • slow cooker dulce de leche, cooked for 10 hours
    • cinnamon sugar blend

    See recipe card for quantities.

    Instructions

    Before you can make these cookies, you need to make the dulce de leche. You should make this the day before you want to make the cookies. Do not open the can until it has 1) completely cooled down and 2) you are ready to use it after baking and cooling the cookies.

    slow cooker dulce de leche

    Slow cooker dulce de leche, cooked 10 hours.

    Sugar cookie dough, refrigerated and rolled.

    dulce de leche cinnamon cookies

    After cookies are baked and cooled, layer a thin coating of white confectionery coating on top and allow it to harden.

    Pipe dulce de leche on top of white confectionery coating, leaving a small border of the white confectionery coating.

    Hint: I use a 1M wilton piping tip to create the dulce de leche swirls on top of the cookies.

    Variations

    This recipe is so great to put your own spin on. Try doing these variations!

    • Spicy - add chili pepper flakes to the sugar cookie dough
    • Chocolate peanut butter - use peanut butter cookie dough and milk chocolate as the layer between the dulce de Chocolate
    • Chocolate caramel - use a chocolate cookie dough, dark chocolate layer, and dulce de leche

    Equipment

    This recipe uses equipment you probably already have around the house! You will need a slow cooker, oven, baking sheet, glass bowl, piping bag, and spatula.

    Storage and shelf life

    Store the finished cookies in an airtight container. Good for 2-3 days.

    Top tip

    Slow cooker dulce de leche can be made a few months in advance and stored in the unopened cans in your pantry. Once the cans are open, the dulce de leche should be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator. It will only last 2-3 days once opened.

    Related

    Looking for other recipes like this? Try these:

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    • Copycat Godiva ganache chocolate filled cookies
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    Pairing

    These are my favorite dishes to serve with [this recipe]:

    • Valentine's Day mocha latte pour-over
    • How to make chocolate box chocolates - strawberry nougat
    • Chocolate peanut butter hot fudge
    • Jumbo peanut butter cups
    dulce de leche cinnamon cookies

    Dulce de Leche cinnamon sugar cookies

    Cinnamon sugar cookies layered with white confectionery coating and homemade dulce de leche
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    Prep Time 1 d
    Cook Time 1 hr
    Course Dessert
    Servings 8 cookies

    Equipment

    • slow cooker
    • large glass bowl
    • baking sheet
    • spatula
    • small prep bowl for cinnamon sugar mix
    • piping bag
    • 1 M piping tip

    Ingredients
      

    Cookies

    • 1 package refrigerated sugar cookie dough
    • 1 tablespoon cinnamon
    • 1 tbsp white sugar

    White cinnamon coating

    • 6 ounces white confectionery coating
    • 0.5 teaspoon cinnamon

    Dulce de leche

    • 2 cans sweetened condensed milk, full fat 2, 12 ounce cans

    Instructions
     

    Dulce de Leche

    • Remove all labels from sweetened condensed milk.
    • Place cans of sweetened condensed milk in a slow cooker.
    • Fill slow cooker with hot water, fully submerging the sweetened condensed milk with around 1" of water over the top of the can.
    • Place lid on slow cooker. Cook for ten hours on high.
    • Turn off slow cooker. Remove cans from slow cooker using extreme caution as they will be very hot. Tongs are recommended. Do not open cans.
    • Place cans in a safe place where no one will touch or open them to cool. Cool overnight or until no heat remains in can.

    Cinnamon sugar cookies

    • Preheat oven according to sugar cookie dough instructions.
    • In a small bowl, combine 1 tablespoon cinnamon with 1 tablespoon of white sugar. Blend and set aside.
    • Roll sugar cookies into balls. Sugar cookie balls should be around the size of a golf ball.
    • Roll the sugar cookies in the cinnamon sugar blend.
    • Place sugar cookie dough on parchment lined baking sheet. Bake according to package instructions.
    • Cool cookies completely.

    White confectionery coating

    • In a glass bowl, microwave confectionery coating in 30 second increments stirring after each one ,until fluid.
    • Stir in ½ teaspoon of cinnamon into the white coating.
    • Using a spoon, layer around 1 tablespoon of white confectionery coating on top of cooled cookie, leaving an outer rim of sugar cookie visible.
    • Allow white coating to harden.

    Assembling cookies

    • Open the cooled dulce de leche.
    • Place 1M piping tip in piping bag.
    • Fill piping bag with dulce de leche.
    • Pipe dulce de leche in a circular motion on top of white confectionery coating, leaving some of the white confectionery coating exposed.

    Storage

    • Store in an airtight container for 2-3 days.
    Keyword caramel, cinnamon, cookies, dulce de leche, homemade caramel easy
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