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World's Best Snickerdoodles
 
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Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Cook Time: 8 Minutes
Ready In: 18 Minutes
Servings: 6
Title says it all. DO NOT OVERBAKE THEM, or you will be sorry. Best to pull them out when they look a little raw and let them harden a bit on the cookie sheet. I have given these as gifts, sold them, and made them for guests, but I never have any left over by the end of the day. They are also very pretty, with the nice broken top characteristic of Snicks.
Ingredients:
1 cup unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla (this is an occasion worthy of good vanilla!)
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Cream together butter and sugar.
3. Add in eggs, one at a time, along with vanilla, until well-combined.
4. Mix dry ingredients (flour, salt, soda, cream of tartar) in a separate bowl. Add dry ingredient mix into the wet mix in 2-3 stages.
5. Mix the 2 tablespoons sugar and the cinnamon together in a small bowl.
6. Use your hands to roll dough into little (ping-pong ball-sized) balls.
7. Roll dough-balls in the cinnamon/sugar mixture so they're covered all the way around. Place them on an ungreased cookie sheet, 2 or 3 inches apart.
8. Bake 7 or 8 minutes, until they have spread out and have JUST started to turn brown. Remove from cookie sheets and place cookies on cooling rack to cool and set a little. If they're not completely cooked when they come out of the oven, let them cook a bit more on the cookie sheets, out of the oven. 7-8 minutes will make a nice, chewy cookie with a little crispness on the bottom.
By RecipeOfHealth.com