Snickerdoodles

A simple cookie.  Simple ingredients.  Simple procedure.  So why are they so ridiculously addicting?  Is it the cinnamon sugar coating?  Or the fact that as soon as your teeth break through the crisp exterior, you get to enjoy an incredibly light, soft, and airy cookie on the inside. 

Let's not waste our time and get to the good part.  :)

Ingredients: (2 dozen cookies)
-1 stick butter
-3/4 cup sugar
-1/2 tsp vanilla
-1 egg
-1 1/2 cup flour
-1/2 tsp baking soda
-1 tsp cream of tartar
-1/4 tsp salt

Coating
-2 tbsp sugar
-2 tsp cinnamon

1.  Cream the butter and sugar. 

Add vanilla and egg.

2.  Sift together flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt, then add to the mix we made above.  Oh and cream of tartar is NOT the same thing is tartar sauce. 

That's embarrassing...you get to see my messy handwritten recipe. 

3.  Preheat oven to 400F.  Mix sugar and cinnamon for coating. 

Roll a 1" ball of dough, then coat the ball in the cinnamon sugar mix.  To make the dough a little easier to handle, you might refrigerate it for an hour.  I didn't, and they were fine, but it depends on your comfort with buttery dough.

Place on greased cookie sheet.

This is something that you could do with your kids to get them in the kitchen :) 

4.  Bake at 400F for 8 minutes.  You'll notice that in the oven, they go from the ball shape to a flatter cookie shape by itself.  And here they are!

Mmm they are amazing.

Make sure you cool these before eating...most cookies taste fabulous straight out of the oven, but these need to sit a little before you can actually even pick it up.  Let them sit and become the cookie you know they can be.  Trust.

Make these with your kids, lover, friend, or frenemy today!

For a printable version of this recipe, please click here.