Snickerdoodles

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Preparation info
  • Makes:

    2 Dozen

    Cookies
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Cookiepedia: Mixing Baking, and Reinventing the Classics

By Stacey Adimando

Published 2011

  • About

They’re a little sweet, a little spicy, and so easy to make. (The dough is similar to sugar cookie dough, but rolled in cinnamon-sugar before baking.) Plus, aren’t they fun to pronounce?

Ingredients

  • 1⅓ cups all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
  • ½ teaspoon

Method

  1. Grease several cookie sheets or line them with parchment paper. Set aside. Next sift the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt into a bowl and set it aside as well.
  2. Cream the butter and both sugars on medium speed for several minutes until they’re light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla and mix to combine.
  3. Add the flour mixture in two batche