Buttery Cinnamon Squares Recipes

CINNAMON SQUARES

Steps:

• Prepare base: heat oven to 325 degrees. In a food processor, combine confectioners' sugar, flour, baking powder and cinnamon. Pulse until free of lumps. Scatter butter cubes across top and pulse again until mixture is crumbly and beginning to come together.
• Press mixture evenly into a shallow 9- to 9 1/2-inch square baking pan. Bake until shortbread is firm, barely colored and no longer has a sheen on its surface, about 30 minutes. Remove from oven and cool on a rack until warm.
• While shortbread cools, prepare icing: In a small saucepan over low heat, melt butter and syrup together. Whisk in the confectioners' sugar and cinnamon until free of lumps. Remove from heat and allow to cool just until slightly thickened. Whisk again and pour over warm shortbread, using a spatula to reach edges. Allow to cool completely, then cut into 16 squares.

CINNAMON CREAM CHEESE SQUARES

Steps:

• Unroll one tube of dough and place in a lightly greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan. Seal seams and perforations; set aside. In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, 1 cup of sugar and vanilla until smooth. Spread over dough. , Unroll remaining tube of dough and place over cream cheese mixture, stretching to fit. Brush butter evenly over top; sprinkle with cinnamon and remaining sugar. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until golden brown. Cool; cut into squares.

CINNAMON TOAST CRUNCH® CEREAL ALMOND SQUARES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Line 8-inch square pan with heavy-duty foil. Spray foil with cooking spray.
• In food processor or blender, place cereal. Cover; process until cereal is finely crushed. In medium bowl, mix crushed cereal and melted butter. Press in bottom of pan.
• Pour condensed milk over crumb mixture. Top evenly with almonds.
• Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until top is light golden brown. Cool completely, about 1 1/2 hours. For squares, cut into 4 rows by 4 rows.

BUTTER TART SQUARES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• To Make Base: In a small mixer bowl, cream together 1/2 cup butter or margarine and confectioners' sugar. Blend in flour. Pat into 9X9 inch square pan. Bake in preheated oven for 5 minutes.
• To Make Filling: In a large bowl combine brown sugar, melted butter or margarine, beaten eggs, vinegar, vanilla, and raisins. Pour over base and bake in preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes, until set.

CINNAMON SQUARES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Grease and flour a 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1-inch pan.
• Cream the butter, margarine, and sugar.
• Add the egg yolk and dry ingredients.
• Press the batter into prepared pan.
• Beat the egg white until foamy and spread sparingly over batter.
• Press on the nuts.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 30 minutes.
• Cut into squares.

CHOCOLATE CINNAMON SQUARES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream the butter, shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and yolk. Combine flour, cinnamon, baking powder and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. , Spread into a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Beat egg white until foamy; brush over dough. Combine the chocolate chips, nuts, sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over dough. , Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack. Cut into squares.

CARDAMOM BUTTER SQUARES

Steps:

• Make cookies:
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, cardamom, cinnamon, and allspice in a bowl.
• Beat together butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes in a stand mixer (preferably fitted with paddle attachment) or 4 minutes with a handheld. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Reduce speed to low, then mix in flour mixture until just combined.
• Form dough into 2 (12-inch) logs (1 1/2 inches in diameter), each on its own sheet of plastic wrap. Use plastic wrap and your hands to roll, press, and square off sides of logs. Chill logs on a baking sheet until slightly firm, about 1 hour, then smooth logs with plastic wrap and flat side of a ruler to achieve straight sides. Chill logs on baking sheet until firm, about 1 hour.
• Put oven racks in upper and lower thirds of oven and preheat oven to 350°F.
• Cut enough scant 1/4-inch-thick slices from a log with a knife to fill 2 large ungreased baking sheets, arranging slices about 1 inch apart (chill remaining dough, wrapped in plastic wrap).
• Bake cookies, switching position of sheets halfway through baking, until edges are golden, 10 to 12 minutes total. Cool on sheets 3 minutes, then transfer to racks to cool completely. Make more cookies with remaining dough on cooled baking sheets.
• Ice cookies:
• Whisk together espresso powder, vanilla, and 1 1/2 tablespoons milk until espresso powder is dissolved, then add confectioners sugar and enough additional milk to make a thick but pourable icing. Spoon into a sealable bag and snip 1/8 inch off a bottom corner.
• Spoon melted chocolate into another sealable bag and snip 1/8 inch off a bottom corner.
• Pipe some espresso icing and chocolate over each cookie and let cookies stand on racks until icing sets, about 2 hours.

APPLE-CINNAMON SQUARES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees, Grease and flour 8"x8" baking dish.
• Melt 1/2 cup butter in a 2 1/2 quart saucepan.
• Remove from heat and stir in the brown sugar.
• Beat in the eggs, one at a time Add the vanilla extract.
• Stir in the whole wheat flour.
• Sift in the all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, and 1 1/2 Tsps.
• cinnamon.
• Stir together.
• Peel, core, and dice the apple.
• Add to the batter with the raisins and stir to combine.
• Pour into the baking dish.
• Mix together the remaining 2 Tbls.
• cinnamon and the 1/2 cup sugar.
• Sprinkle over the top of the batter.
• Melt the remaining 2 Tbls.
• butter and drizzle over sugar and cinnamon.
• Bake in the oven for 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Remove and cool in the pan on a wire rack.
• When cool, slice into squares.