What Are Honey Bun Cookies?
Think soft brown sugar cookie dough studded with chunks of real honey buns (yes, we chopped up the actual snack cakes), packed with cinnamon chips, stuffed with a generous spoonful of cream cheese frosting, and finished with a homemade honey glaze. The result? Chewy, gooey, cinnamon-swirled cookies that taste like you smushed a honey bun into the center of a cookie and made it 10x better.
Ingredients That Make This Cookie Pop
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Honey buns: Chopped and folded right into the dough for texture and nostalgic flavor.
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Cinnamon chips: For that warm, bakery-style spice.
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Cream cheese frosting: Stuffed inside because why not? We love a stuffed cookie.
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Honey glaze: Sweet and sticky, poured on top for that authentic iced finish.
Honey Bun Cookie Recipe
Ingredients (All in grams)
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56g Butter
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56g Shortening
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113g Sugar
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56g Brown Sugar
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250g Flour
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4g Baking Powder
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4g Cornstarch
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2g Salt
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54g Eggs
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4g Vanilla Extract
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4g Vegetable Oil
Mix-Ins
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2 Honey Buns (chopped)
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42g Cinnamon Chips
Core
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Cream Cheese Frosting (store-bought or homemade)
Glaze Frosting
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28g Honey
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56g Milk
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140g Powdered Sugar
Directions
1. Cream Butter & Sugars – Beat butter, shortening, granulated and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
2. Add Wet Ingredients – Mix in egg, vanilla, and vegetable oil until fully combined.
3. Dry Ingredients – Add cornstarch, baking powder, and salt. Mix well.
4. Add Flour – Gradually mix in flour until dough forms.
5. Mix-Ins – Fold in chopped honey buns and cinnamon chips.
6. Shape – Portion into 5 oz balls.
7. Optional Filling – For a stuffed center: form a cup with the dough, add a spoonful of cream cheese frosting, and seal.
8. Chill – Refrigerate or freeze for 1–2 hours.
9. Make Glaze – Mix milk, honey, and powdered sugar until smooth. Chill until ready to use.
10. Bake – Preheat oven to 400°F (204°C). Bake for 16–20 minutes, until golden.
11. Finish & Enjoy – Let cookies cool for 10 minutes, top with glaze, and dig in!
Baking Notes (a.k.a. When Things Got Weird)
These cookies took two days because, well, we needed them to freeze long enough to avoid total frosting leakage. Spoiler alert: most still leaked. That cream cheese frosting? It melts fast. But even our flattest cookies still tasted like sweet success.
We’ve learned that stuffing cookies with frosting is a gamble—sometimes you win big, sometimes your oven tray ends up looking like a cinnamon glaze crime scene. Either way, we’re okay with that. These honey bun cookies might be chaotic, but they do taste like a honey bun.
Taste Test: Does It Actually Taste Like a Honey Bun?
Honestly? It’s uncanny. The dough, the chunks of bun, the frosting center, the glaze—it’s giving over-the-top honey bun energy. Even Garrison (who recently gave up sugar but came back just in time for this) agreed: these cookies nail the flavor.
Would We Make Them Again?
Absolutely. We’d maybe tweak the frosting situation—maybe pipe it in post-bake for a cleaner center—but the flavor? Unmatched. These cookies are pure weird genius.
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