Why I Love Snickerdoodle Cookies

        Snickerdoodle cookies are amazing and they are my favorite type of cookie. Why you may ask? Continue reading to find out my reasons!


1. You only need a few simple ingredients, all of which you likely have in your home kitchen.

Here is the recipe below and you can see that their are not many ingredients and the only one that you may not have at home would be the cream of tartar. (You actually do not need this ingredient, unless you want the cookies to be soft.)

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Serves: 24
 
Ingredients
  • 3 cups flour
  • ½ tsp cream of tartar
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 cup butter, at room temperature
  • 2 cups sugar, plus more if needed
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon, plus more if needed
  • ½ cup additional sugar
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 400.
  2. Sift together flour, cream of tartar, baking soda; set aside.
  3. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, combine softened butter and 2 cups sugar. Beat on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. (If your mixer is 35 years old like mine is, and you're afraid at any minute that it will croak, you don't have to beat it this long.)
  4. Scrape down sides of bowl. Add eggs, and beat to combine.
  5. Add dry ingredients, and beat to combine.
  6. At this point, if you have time, chill the dough for an hour (or you can overnight) before scooping it. If you're in a hurry for Snickerdoodles (and who isn't?) you can skip this step. Trust me.
  7. In a small bowl, combine ¼ cup sugar and the ground cinnamon. Use a small ice-cream scoop or a teaspoon to scoop balls of dough, and roll in cinnamon sugar.
  8. Place about two inches apart on the prepared baking sheets.
  9. Bake until the cookies are set in center and begin to crack (they will not brown), about 10-14 minutes.
  10. Transfer sheets to a wire rack to cool.
2. You get to make little balls out of the dough, and then roll them in sugar-cinnamon. This is basically playing with your food. Plus, you can eat a little sugary ball from time to time. Icing. On the cake. As it were. :)

3. Snickerdoodle are wonderful hot out of the oven. They are equally captivating in their cooled state. They are good with coffee. They are great with milk. They are even better with hot chocolate.

4. The name: “Snickerdoodle.” It’s fun to bandy around. It’s super-fun to say when one is on the phone, as in “Yes, hi there, I’m just making Snickerdoodles. . . “ Try it.Say it aloud. See? Wasn’t that fun? Don’t you want to say that to somebody?

5. They do not take long at all too make. In 12 minutes of baking them they are all done. If I add up all the time it takes to prepare, cook, and cook it's about 40 minutes or less depending at how fast you are at mixing the ingredients and if you want to eat a cookie straight out of the oven. (Personally, I wait a few minutes for my snickerdoodle cookies to cool down but to each their own.)






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