Cinnamon Roll Bites With Cream Cheese Frosting

Dough
2 cup all-purpose flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter (cold)
3/4 cup milk (cold)
Cinnamon Coating
1 tbsp cinnamon (or more if you’d like)
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
Frosting
3 tbsp cream cheese (room temperature)
3 tbsp granulated sugar
3 tbsp milk
1 1/2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp maple syrup (optional)

Directions45 minutes

1Preheat oven to 350°F.
2Sift and add all-purpose flour, baking powder, salt into a bowl.
3Cut cold butter into small cubes and add to the dry ingredients.
4With a spatula or dough cutter (or even with a fork) cut butter into small pieces until pea size.
5When butter is cut and mixed with flour, add cold milk. You’re going to roll the dough into small balls, so add more milk or flour if you’d like.
6Mix well until all ingredients for the dough are combined.
7Set the dough to a side, combine cinnamon, granulated sugar, brown sugar in another bowl.
8Stir it well so cinnamon is evenly distributed.
9Roll the dough into small balls using your hands, coat the balls with cinnamon-sugar mixture.
10Place the coated balls in a buttered pie pan (or really, any flat pan).
11Bake for 25 minutes.
12Your cinnamon balls should be golden brown and crispy. If not, bake for couple minutes more.
13Take them out of oven and set aside to let them cool. While they are cooling, we’ll make the frosting. (But if you prefer to drizzle when the cinnamon balls are hot, make the frosting while baking). Cooling makes the balls to keep crispness even after frosting.
14Combine softened cream cheese, lemon juice, sugar, milk, and maple syrup(optional) in a bowl.
15Mix well and check the consistency. You can use an electric hand mixer. But I just used a spatula. You can add more milk or cream cheese for your preferred consistency
16Drizzle it over the cinnamon balls.
17(Secret) you can roll the balls and coat them with remained cinnamon coating mixture before frosting is dried! Extra sugary and yummy!

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