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Snickerdoodles

By Kate Morgan Jackson

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This recipe for snickerdoodles cookies will fill your house with cinnamon sugar deliciousness! You might want to make a double batch of this classic treat.

Snickerdoodles

I have a warm and fuzzy place in my heart for snickerdoodles, because aside from the fact that they have the best cookie name ever, they also remind me of my free-wheeling college days.  I know, you usually see Clemson all over this blog, and since my baby girl and a few of my other favorite people in the world went to Clemson, I am definitely an honorary Tiger.

But when you get down to it, my blood runs Georgetown blue and gray.   And my favorite cookie in all its cinnamon sugar goodness will be forever wrapped up in those crazy college memories.

About one million years ago when I was a sophomore I got an on-campus apartment with three of my good friends, and with that apartment came the very first stove any of us had ever had. We cooked up some alarming meals on that stove. Fun, but alarming.

Anyway, there was one of us (you know who you are!) who periodically would have the overwhelming need to bake cookies. Not to eat them, just to bake them, sometimes at interesting hours of the day and night, and she always made the same kind: Snickerdoodles. Not sure why, but we weren’t arguing. The apartment was always full of us girls and whomever our boyfriends of the moment were, and the cookies never lasted long.

So every once in a while, lo these many years later, I get the overwhelming desire to make snickerdoodles, and it always zaps me right back to those days of fun and friends and having to wait on line for hours for a clothes dryer.

Snickerdoodles

Cookie memories and college memories.  They’re the best.

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Snickerdoodles


  • Prep Time: 20 minutes
  • Cook Time: 24 minutes
  • Total Time: 44 minutes
  • Yield: 36 servings 1x
  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: Oven
  • Cuisine: American
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Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup shortening
  • 1 1/2 cups white sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons white sugar
  • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 and line cookie sheets with parchment paper or a Silpat.
  2. Cream together butter, shortening, 1 1/2 cups sugar, the eggs and the vanilla.
  3. Mix the the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt together and mix into the butter mixture.
  4. Scoop the dough out by tablespoons, rolling each into a ball.
  5. Mix the 2 tablespoons sugar and the cinnamon and roll the dough balls in the cinnamon mixture. Place 2 inches apart on the cookie sheets.
  6. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes and cool on racks.
1239.1 g55.9 mg5.8 g2.4 g0.4 g16.6 g0.3 g1.4 g17.1 mg

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Kate Morgan Jackson

Hi there!  I’m Kate, and I’m a recipe writer, food photographer and devoted bacon lover.  I started Framed Cooks in 2009, and my mission is to create and share family-friendly recipes that make cooking both easy and fun…yes, I said FUN!  My kitchen is my happy place, and I want yours to be that place too.  And if you make this recipe, I would love you to tag @FramedCooks on Instagram so I can see the deliciousness!as seen in logos

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Published on November 10, 2015

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  1. grace says

    March 25, 2010 at 12:03 pm

    fun name? yes. but the draw for me is clearly the fact that cinnamon is the first and primary flavor to hit your tongue. your cookies look awesome, kate!

    Reply
  2. Andrea says

    March 26, 2010 at 3:12 am

    never had a snickerdoodle. not one. never made them either. hmm….

    Reply
  3. Anonymous says

    September 30, 2011 at 8:52 pm

    My first time making snickerdoodles…this will be the only recipe I use, they turned out delicious!!

    Reply
  4. FramedCooks says

    October 2, 2011 at 2:11 am

    I'm so glad! Snickerdoodles are my sentimental favorite. :)

    Reply
  5. Mir says

    November 11, 2015 at 6:46 am

    I needed a roommate like that in my college life. I was the cook/baker (shock, I know) so everyone just ate my stuff. I wanted someone to make cookies for me!
    These look so delicious, Kate!

    Reply
    • Kate says

      November 12, 2015 at 7:57 am

      We all need a good comfort cookie here and there, right? :)

      Reply
  6. Gayle @ Pumpkin 'N Spice says

    November 11, 2015 at 7:27 am

    Snickerdoodles are my absolute favorite! You just can’t go wrong with a classic cookie like this. Sounds delicious, Kate!

    Reply
    • Kate says

      November 12, 2015 at 7:57 am

      Yes! Plus they smell like Christmas while they are baking. Win-win!

      Reply
  7. grace says

    November 11, 2015 at 9:46 am

    when i think of what has consistently been at the top of my list of favorite cookies, chocolate chip cookies do not come to mind. nope, it’s snickerdoodles. i LOVE those things!

    Reply
    • Kate says

      November 12, 2015 at 7:56 am

      Me too! Eating them and saying their name!

      Reply
  8. Mindy says

    November 12, 2015 at 11:44 pm

    Hands down, my favorite cookie ever.

    Reply
    • Kate says

      November 17, 2015 at 9:21 pm

      Aren’t they the best??

      Reply
  9. KarenT. says

    December 24, 2015 at 2:31 pm

    Just made them to add to my cookie platters (rolled them in red and green sanding sugar after the cinnamon/sugar mixture) and they are to die for. This is now my go to recipe for snickerdoodles. Thanks! And Merry Christmas!!

    Reply
    • Kate says

      December 27, 2015 at 8:53 am

      I love the red and green variety on this – thanks for the merry idea! :)

      Reply

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