Pin Wheels

[Howie Hart]

My Mom used to make these. After making a pie, she would roll out any leftover pie crust, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon, roll it up, cut into 1/2 inch thick pin wheels, lay them on their side on a cookie sheet and bake them. I've been doing it the past few times I've made pies. Tasty treat. Anyone else do anything similar?

[Redwinger]

Yup, NJ does that all the time.

[Lou Kessler]

Thanks Howie, I had forgot that my mother did the same thing after baking a pie or pies. Remember now , what a treat!

[Karen/NoCA]

Mom did that all the time....I was not fond of pies but I readily ate the cinnamon sugar treats!

[JuliaB]

Haven't thought of that in years, Howie. My Mom did exactly the same thing. I don't think she basted them with butter, so they always looked and smelled better than they actually tasted..a tad on the dry side, but I never refused them!

JB

[Christina Georgina]

Tootsie Rolls!!!! That's what my mother called them and I do as well. My son always asks for them when I make pie. We spread the rolled dough with butter, sugar and cinnamon then roll it into a a log, make 1/2 " thick slices and bake. Nothing better if the crust is short and rich!

[Matilda L]

My mother made these too.
Is that what a tootsie roll is?

[Christina Georgina]

No Matilda. Just what my family calls those delectable things made from left over pie crust. They bear absolutely NO resemblance to the candy, Tootsie Roll.

[Mike Filigenzi]

My mom used to just roll out the dough in strips and add sugar and cinnamon. They were a real treat.

[Rahsaan]

My mother did the same thing, although not in shapes, just a cinammon sugar treat from leftover pie dough. When I got older I asked why she had stopped doing it at a certain point and she said that she mastered her recipes and no longer had extra dough!

[Mike Filigenzi]

My mother did the same thing, although not in shapes, just a cinammon sugar treat from leftover pie dough. When I got older I asked why she had stopped doing it at a certain point and she said that she mastered her recipes and no longer had extra dough!

Sometimes, efficiency is a bad thing!

[Jenise]

Tootsie Rolls!!!! That's what my mother called them and I do as well. My son always asks for them when I make pie. We spread the rolled dough with butter, sugar and cinnamon then roll it into a a log, make 1/2 " thick slices and bake. Nothing better if the crust is short and rich!

I do the same!

I received some free apple pie spice in one of my Penzey's shipments and have used that in place of cinnamon the last few times--it's mostly cinnamon anyway. I've also been known to put some finely chopped pecans in there--baby pecan wheels!