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Snickerdoodles II

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Servings: 36 Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Baked

Tags: dessert, easy, recipes for cookies, recipes using all-purpose flour, recipes using baking soda, recipes using butter, recipes using cream of tartar, recipes using egg, recipes using ground cinnamon, recipes using white sugar

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ASnickerdoodles_II)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ASnickerdoodles%20II&oldid=4515332

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 344 g (2 ¾ cups or 24 oz) all-purpose flour
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 2 tsp cream of tartar
  • 200 g (1 cups or 6 oz) white sugar
  • 100 g (½ cup or 4 oz) soft shortening
  • 110 g (½ cup or 4 oz) butter
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tsp cinnamon

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 205°C (400°F or Gas Mark 6).
  2. Mix flour, salt, baking soda, cream of tartar, sugar, shortening, and butter.
  3. Roll into 1 tbsp balls.
  4. Mix sugar and cinnamon.
  5. Roll balls in sugar-cinnamon mixture.
  6. Bake for 10 minutes or until crisp and light brown.
  7. Sprinkle generously with cinnamon while hot.

Notes

Other recipes add honey to the dough, which helps to keep the cookies from becoming too crisp.