Snickerdoodles
Tue, Mar 29, 2011
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Snickerdoodles are one of my favorite cookies. This rendition comes from my brother-in-law and is very similar to my mom’s recipe. In this recipe, though, the addition of brown sugar to the cinnamon-sugar mixture in which the cookie dough is rolled adds a wonderful complexity to the flavor. These soft cookies will literally melt in your mouth.
Snickerdoodles
Author: Itsy Bitsy Foodies
Recipe type: Dessert
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Serves: 24-30
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.
TIP: For a great resource regarding how to bake with butter, check out this New York Times article.
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Tags: brown sugar, butter, cinnamon, cookie, snickerdoodles
There is something about a soft snickerdoodle that is so good!
Hmm. I noticed that you have two different recipes for snickerdoodles. I wonder which one you prefer? For me, I love the classic recipe – it always gives me perfect, soft, chewy, buttery cookies. 😀
http://thekitchenkook.blogspot.com/2013/01/classic-snickerdoodle-cookies.html
Though they look different, both of these are the soft and chewy kind (which I prefer). And I honestly couldn’t decide which was my favorite because I like them both! Mmmm…now you have me craving snickerdoodles 🙂