These soft snickerdoodles will literally melt in your mouth. The addition of brown sugar to the cinnamon-sugar mixture in which the cookie dough is rolled adds a wonderful complexity to the flavor.
Ingredients
1 cup plus 2 Tbsp butter, softened
1½ cups sugar
2 eggs
3 cups flour
2 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp baking soda
tsp salt
3 Tbsp brown sugar
1½ tsp cinnamon
1½ tsp sugar
Instructions
Cream the butter and the sugar.
Beat in the eggs.
In a separate bowl, combine the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt.
Stir the dry ingredients into the butter mixture and mix them until a smooth dough forms.
In a small bowl, mix the brown sugar, sugar and cinnamon.
Roll the cookie dough into balls a little bit smaller than golf balls.
Roll each ball in the brown sugar-cinnamon mixture until they are completely covered.
Place them on a greased cookie sheet.
Bake the cookies at 350 degrees for 8 minutes and 30 seconds until the bottoms are just turning golden.
For soft cookies, be careful not to over-bake them. They will continue to set up as they cool.
Recipe by Itsy Bitsy Foodies at http://itsybitsyfoodies.com/snickerdoodles-2/