It's a super soft, cinnamon-based churro cookie rolled in cinnamon sugar and topped with a delicious cinnamon buttercream frosting and sprinkled with more cinnamon sugar.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use parchment paper or a silpat mat to line a baking sheet. Cream the butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar in a stand mixer (or by hand) until light and fluffy.
Mix in egg, egg yolk, lemon juice and vanilla.
Mix in flour, corn starch, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.
Scoop out about 2-3 tablespoons and roll into a dough ball. Repeat with the rest of the dough to make about 18 dough balls.
Mix the 1/4 cup granulated sugar and 1/2 tsp cinnamon (Cinnamon Sugar Coating) in a bowl. Roll each cookie dough in the cinnamon sugar mixture and place on the prepared baking sheet. (Save leftover cinnamon sugar for topping at the end) You should have only 6 cookies per cookie sheet and leave about 2 inches in between each cookie. Slightly flatten each cookie dough ball.
Bake at 350 degrees for 9-10 minutes.
Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes and then transfer to cooling rack.
How to Make Cinnamon Frosting
Cream butter, powdered sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, vanilla and 1 tbsp heavy cream until light and fluffy. If frosting is too thick, add a little heavy cream and mix until desired consistency is achieved. If the frosting is too thin, add more powdered sugar.
Put the frosting in a gallon size Ziploc bag and cut off one corner of the bag. Use the frosting bag to pipe frosting in a spiral on top of the cooled cookies.
Take the leftover cinnamon sugar mixture that was remained after you rolled the cookie dough balls and add 1 TBSP brown sugar to it and mix. Sprinkle on top of each frosted cookie.
Notes
Store these cookies in an air-tight container in the refrigerator to keep them fresh for 5+ days. Enjoy either cold out of the fridge or let them come to room temperature. Both are amazingly delicious!