Instructions

Make the cookie dough:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.
3. In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg and vanilla.
4. Gradually blend in dry ingredients.
5. Add just enough of the buttermilk to moisten the dough and make it soft, not wet. We used about 1 tablespoon. Beat until dough comes together.

Make the streusel:

1. Whisk together the brown sugar, granulated sugar, cinnamon, and salt in a bowl.
2. Add the melted butter and whisk in until well-incorporated.
3. Fold in the flour until it is completely incorporated into the mixture and the dough comes together in a ball; you may need to use your hands to finish clumping all the dough together.
4. Set aside while preparing the remaining recipe components.

Make the icing:

1. Either in the bowl of an electric stand mixer, or a mixing bowl, whisk softened butter and cream cheese together until combined.
2. Then whisk in powdered sugar until combined.
3. If the icing is too thick, add a tablespoon or two of milk to thin.

Bring it all together:

1. Prepare all of the parts of the recipe.
2. Roll the dough into strands (or in Kindergarten, they call them worms) and lightly spread with butter. Put the filling onto the butter so it sticks and roll up the cookie like a cinnamon roll.
3. Sprinkle with streusel.
4. Bake for 8 minutes. Let stand for 2 minutes on the baking sheets before removing to cool on a rack.
5. Once completely cool, pipe the icing onto the cookies in a swirl. Let harden, and then eat.