There’s something about Snickerdoodles that I just don’t like, but I can’t put my finger on it. The lack of chocolate maybe? Too much cinnamon? In any event, they are my brother’s favourite cookie, so I made a half batch to bring over last month for his birthday. Why half batch, you ask? Joel’s request – something to do with wanting his waist size to be less than or equal to his age by this summer (I won’t disclose either! haha).
Snickerdoodles involve a plain sugar cookie dough that is shaped into balls and rolled in a mixture of cinnamon sugar. When they bake, they flatten and crack, which looks pretty cute as seen above. I had one little issue though which involved not listening to my baker’s intuition. The recipe I followed said to bake the cookies at 400°, which I though might be too hot, but cranked the oven anyway, and turned out to be a disaster. I adjusted the oven temperature to 350°, and you can see difference the adjustment made below.
Bottoms of cookies, on the left baked at 350, on the right baked at 400.
Side view:
Snickerdoodles
Source: Smitten Kitchen
Ingredients:
2 3/4 cups flour
2 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 cups (2 sticks) butter, room temperature
1 1/2 + 1/4 cups sugar
2 tbsp cinnamon
2 eggs
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Sift together flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream together butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat to combine. Stir in dry ingredients and mix until combined.
- On a plate, mix together 1/4 cup sugar and cinnamon. Roll dough into balls (about 1 or 1 1/2 tbsp of dough) and roll around in the cinnamon sugar to coat.
- Place dough balls about two inches apart on baking sheets lined with parchment paper.
- Bake cookies about 10 minutes until they set in centre and start to crack, rotating the sheets halfway through baking time. Cookies will not brown (unless you burn them like I did on the first try – heyyyy ohhhhh!).
- Cool cookies on a wire rack.
Danielle
April 19, 2010 9:17 pmI also don’t like Snickerdoodles, they feel like a waste of a cookie, I think it’s the lack of chocolate. I made them last year at the request of a co-worker and was less than impressed with them. The sacrifices we make for other people’s baking requests!!