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.
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.
So just to get it out of my system, please click here: Go Hoyas!!
Meanwhile back at the cookies, 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.
Cookie memories and college memories. They’re the best.
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Snickerdoodles
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Pin RecipeIngredients
- 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
- Preheat oven to 400.
- Cream together butter, shortening, 1 1/2 cups sugar, the eggs and the vanilla. Blend in the flour, cream of tartar, soda and salt. Shape dough by rounded spoonfuls into balls.
- Mix the 2 tablespoons sugar and the cinnamon. Roll balls of dough in mixture. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake 8 to 10 minutes and cool on racks.
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!
never had a snickerdoodle. not one. never made them either. hmm….
My first time making snickerdoodles…this will be the only recipe I use, they turned out delicious!!
I'm so glad! Snickerdoodles are my sentimental favorite. 🙂
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!
We all need a good comfort cookie here and there, right? 🙂
Snickerdoodles are my absolute favorite! You just can’t go wrong with a classic cookie like this. Sounds delicious, Kate!
Yes! Plus they smell like Christmas while they are baking. Win-win!
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!
Me too! Eating them and saying their name!
Hands down, my favorite cookie ever.
Aren’t they the best??
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!!
I love the red and green variety on this – thanks for the merry idea! 🙂