Snickerdoodles

This cookie will surely satisfy your sweet tooth. It is a crisp, crackly cookie that is rolled in a mixture of cinnamon and sugar, baked to a light golden brown and bursting with flavor. Give me a glass of milk with these cookies and they’ll be gone in no time at all.

Snickerdoodles

Recipe by Diane BeckerCourse: Cookies and Bars, Desserts
Servings

36

servings

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ cups sugar

  • ½ cup butter or margarine, softened

  • ½ cup shortening

  • 2 eggs

  • 2 ¾ cups flour

  • 2 teaspoons cream of tartar

  • 1 teaspoon baking soda

  • ¼ teaspoon salt

  • 3 Tablespoons sugar

  • 3 teaspoons cinnamon

Directions

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
  • Mix 1 ½ cups sugar with the margarine, shortening and eggs in a large bowl.
  • Stir in the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt.
  • Shape dough by rounded teaspoonfuls into balls.
  • In a separate bowl, mix the 3 Tablespoons sugar with the cinnamon.
  • Roll each ball into the cinnamon sugar mixture and place on ungreased cookie sheet, about 2 inches apart.
  • Bake until set, 8 to 10 minutes. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to cool.
  • Makes about 6 dozen cookies.

Notes

  • I line my cookie sheets with parchment paper.

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