Cinnamon Sugar Palmiers

I made these the other day for our Medicine Ball pregame.  I usually just make banana bread when we all get together, but for medicine ball I wanted to fancy it up.  These palmiers are sooooo easy to make.  Honestly, the hardest part is finding the puff pastry dough.  I was in a rush and could not find the pastry dough (sad, but true ha) and just bought a Pillsbury pie crust instead.  It still turned out delicious.  The palmiers were a little less airy or butter, but more dense and flaky, which is good too.  But, I still think most people would like the pastry dough more, which for some reason is in the freezer section!?!?  Yay, I don't know why, but when I went back to the store to look that is where it was.

So, two take home points from this:

1. Experiment with recipes.  Swap items for ones you like more or just because you can't find them ;)
2. Pastry dough is often in the freezer section.

Cinnamon Sugar Palmiers

Ingredients

* 2 pie crusts make about 20

• Pastry dough or pillsbury pie crust :) ha
• 1/3 cup or 1/3 block of cream cheese (optional... we had some left over so I thought what the heck let's add some delicious cream cheese)
• 1 and 1/2 cup of sugar
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon

Directions

1. If you are using frozen pastry dough, take it out and elt it defrost or put it in refrigerator the night before so that it is at refrigerator temperature.
2. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
3. Mix sugar and cinnamon in a bowl.
4. Microwave cream cheese for about 20 seconds so that it is easy to spread.
5. Roll out dough.
6. Spread cream cheese to the edges of the dough.  Depending which dough you used you made need more.  Try to keep the cream cheese to a thin layer so that you can roll it easily.
7. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar to coat entire dough as well.
8. Then roll dough from both sides until the rolls meet in the middle.
9. Then slice into palmiers, about 1/2 an inch thick.  If dough is too soft, you can refrigerate dough rolls for about 15 minutes. 
10. Bake for 12 minutes on one side, then flip for 4-5 minutes on other side.  The goal is for both sides to be golden brown. 
11. Let cool. 
12. You can top with more cinnamon sugar mixture, powdered sugar (this one I decided not to do since we were all in fancy attire and having powdered sugar all over our dresses and suites wasn't a good idea haha), or even icing could work.
13. Enjoy!
14. Store in air tight container for about 1 week.