Snickerdoodles

Name: Snickerdoodles
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 1 h 2 min
Yield: Makes about 4 dozen
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 eggs; 275 g (9 oz) caster sugar (½ vanilla sugar if possible); 5 tablespoons caster sugar; 50 g (2 oz) walnuts, chopped very finely; 1 tablespoon cinnamon; 250 g (8 oz) butter, softened, plus extra for greasing; 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda; 350 g (12 oz) plain flour

Preparation info

Makes about
4 dozen

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 5

Appears in

American Baking

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1986

About

Snickerdoodles, snipdoodles or Schneckenoodles are some of the names that this cookie was listed under in regional cookbooks of the mid-nineteenth century. The cookie has a light texture and a lovely cinnamon-sugar crust. See for a note on vanilla sugar.

Ingredients

350 g (12 oz) plain flour
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Americas
United States
Baking
Cookies
Vegetarian

Method

Sift the flour and bicarbonate of soda together. Cream the butter with the sugar and then gradually add the eggs. Stir in the flour and the nuts. Form the dough into four rolls about 2.5 cm (1-inch) in diameter, wrap them in cling film and refrigerate until firm (about 30 minutes). Preheat the oven.

Mix the sugar with the cinnamon and put it on a plate. Cut off 2.5 cm (1-inch) lengths o