My great-grandma gave me the simple snickerdoodle recipe that everyone adores!
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Additional Time: | 5 mins |
| Total Time: | 35 mins |
| Servings: | 36 |
| Yield: | 36 cookies |
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups white sugar
- 1 cup softened butter
- 2 large eggs
- 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or lightly grease.
- Make cookies: Beat together white sugar, butter, and eggs in a large bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Combine flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt in a separate bowl; stir into creamed butter mixture until dough holds together.
- Mix together white sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl until well combined.
- Form dough into balls (about 2 teaspoons in each ball), then roll in cinnamon-sugar coating. Place dough balls about 2 inches apart onto the prepared baking sheet.
- Bake in the preheated oven on the center rack for 7 minutes. Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Cookies may look doughy when removed from the oven. Allowing them to continue to cook on the baking sheet out of the oven prevents them from turning hard. Store cooled cookies in a plastic container or plastic bag with 1 to 2 bread slices to keep cookies soft.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 120 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 17 g |
| Cholesterol | 24 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 1 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 92 mg |
| Sugars | 9 g |
| Fat | 6 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Made these for a party and everybody loved them! A guest who was allergic to gluten had to try one! Best cookies ever!
I think it’s an amazing recipe but I have tweeked it just a little and it came out even better in my opinion. Instead of adding salt and butter separately I used salted butter (which was a really good change but the recipe was still good without) and I added 3/4 cup of brown sugar (again really complimented it but not necessary to enjoy this amazing recipe). Deffinetly a crowd favorite. I also made a new recipe using this one. Snickerdoodle Reese Cookie Bars. Same temp as shown here along with for about 15 or so minutes. I may be mistaken but it’s around the same time as a lemon bar recipe. You crumble the Reces over the top and put it back in for a bit to melt a bit. Hope you guys have fun and enjoy.
Followed that recipe, and baking for 12min instead 7. And it didn’t look like video or picture showed like flat cookies at all.
Easy and really good. A hand blender will not work as it gets to thick but our Kitchen Aid with the hook did great. I cooked for 8 minutes plus, versus the 7 the recipe states.
Perfect. I made them a little smaller and got 48.
My wife and mother loved the cookies.
This recipe is great. I followed the directions without any changes and they came out perfect.
Fun to make, tasty and great to share cookies with family and friends this time of year.
A very tender cookie with a wonderful cinnamon flavour. I did cook for a few minutes longer to adjust for the altitude.
These are delicious! I added additional cinnamon for the coating and they were perfect!
these are delicious!!! my family absolutely love this recipe, they are really fluffy this may be random but i act added cardamom to it and it turned out really good
Great recipe. I added 1 tsp of vanilla to add some depth.
This is awesome and easy to make.
I completely understood directions and delicious. I am not an expert cook. Used store bought pie crust and still yummy
It’s a great recipe! The only things I changed was using baking powder for cream of tartar, and using half white sugar, and half brown sugar. Make sure to use lots of cinnamon!
I love a good snickerdoodle, but had never made my own before. This recipe was easy to make, and they were honestly the best snickerdoodles I’ve ever had. I shared them with family over Christmas, and more than one person, unsolicited, said the same thing.
very good cookie! the grand kids helped, we had fun!
I made these cookies more then 5 times. Each time they come out differently. Sometimes they are perfect, and other times they are completely flat and doughy. I am not changing anything. I make them the exact same way each time. How do I fix it so they turn out the same each way?
They came out a little under-cooked at the stated 7 minutes. It was hard to tell how done they were because of the cinnamon. I cooked the second batch for 9 minutes and those came out much better.
I made them as the recipe outlined. The recipe yield was about 4 dozen. They were gone by the next day! These cookies came out perfectly
After baking a few test cookies, I lightened up the cinnamon-sugar mixture with an extra third cup of sugar. Remaining ingredients, method and baking time were spot on for me. After mixing the dough, I got a phone call, so it rested on the counter for 25 minutes…no need for chilling, but the rest period made the dough much easier to work with. Using a standard cookie scoop, I got 47 cookies.