Yeah…imma eat that.

Welcome to another i’m-cinnamon-roll-obsessed post!!!!!!

They’re just a fun food.  Sometimes I go through these phases where I feel so bored with every ingredient in my kitchen.  Every SINGLE ingredient just seems so used and old.  And for dinner I can’t even think of making anything other than an omelet topped with ketchup because there are no other ingredients. 

I’m just feel so over everything.  In the most dramatic way possible.  And I have this desire to do a massive kitchen purge and then a massive grocery store spending splurge.  Just to find anything new.  

I don’t think I’ve been a dramatic enough bride.  I’m emotional like all the time, but dramatic? Not so much.  I should work on that.  Throw a few more tantrums.  Or at the very least start to constantly obsess over how this is the last time I’ll do {blank} as an unmarried women.  Oh wait, I already do that.  Everything I do now feels like my last time.  Like I’ll be all, “this is the last time before I’m married that I’ll go to Panera with my parents on a Monday night and order 1/2 tomato soup + 1/2 turkey bravo sandwich.”  Specificity is key.

This is one of those recipes where I couldn’t edit the pictures without eating a couple cookies.  And drinking some hot chocolate.  Lately I’ve been making my hot chocolate out of Sugar Cookie Tea.  You must try.  I still need to make some oatmeal using that tea…put it on the list of highly necessary things for the Christmas season.  Like building gingerbread houses and sitting around thinking abut how fun it’d be if I lived somewhere that it snowed.

So have you used Monk Fruit in the Raw before?  Before this recipe, I had not.  And I loved these cookies, so I guess that means I love Monk Fruit.  Oh the things you learn about yourself.  By replacing half of the sugar in your recipes with Monk Fruit, you can cut down on the sugar in your holiday treats, which is a great thing if you’re watching calories or glycemic load.

So these little cookies, you can just bite into them.  Or you can unwind them like you would a cinnamon roll.  You should do the latter.  Definitely do the latter.

The mashed banana added to the filling made these cookies like banana bread.  A cookie that tastes like a slice of banana bread smooshed together with a cinnamon roll.  That is what I want.  I love the word “smooshed” like five hundred times more now because of that Pier 1 commercial where the little penguins foot is smooshed in the cupcake.  Oh I can’t stand it, it’s so cute. 

Okay, so add these cookies to your Christmas cookie list.  Or to your brunch menu, if you’re one of those fancy people who brunches.  I don’t really understand brunch, it means you only get to eat one meal in the place of two meals.  Why would I want to do that? 

Brunch or Christmas cookie list…either way your eating a cinnamon roll cookie.  And that is something to be happy about.

{Disclaimer: I received free samples from Cumberland Packing Corp., maker of Monk Fruit In The Raw. By posting this recipe I am entering a recipe contest sponsored
by Cumberland Packing Corp. and am eligible to win prizes associated with the contest. I was not compensated for my time.}