Snickerdoodles!
I don't tend to discriminate when it comes to cookies. I'm an equal opportunity muncher. Oatmeal raisin, peanut butter, oreos, sugar, and of course chocolate chip are all pretty equal in my mind...or in my belly. I'd like to think that I make all these cookies with equal deliciousness but there's ONE cookie that drives people smack into their happy place: the snickerdoodle.'What is it, Laura, about this particular cookie that makes folks so happy?' you ask.
well maybe...
Cinnamon makes people stupidly happy.
The slightly crispy outside and the buttery inside makes people stupidly happy.
Donut glaze makes people stupidly happy.
Free cookies make people stupidly happy.
The first time I made these was while performing in Hilton Head, SC around Christmas of '08. There was this local holiday cookie competition and I entered thinkin' 'ooo fun' and frickin won. So...yeah...these things are tasty.
I also baked these for Madison Square Eats and they sold out in a day-and for the next week of the festival everyday someone would come by saying 'Hey, do you have any snickerdoodles?' It makes a girl monstrously proud.
And also kinda giggly...I mean what's funnier than a grown man saying 'snickerdoodle'?
So here's my recipe and here's hopin' you like 'em!
Snickerdoodles w/ Donut Glaze
Stuff you'll need
set oven to 375/ use ungreased cookie sheets
2 1/4 cups flour
1 t baking powder
1 t salt 1
1 1/2 T cinnamon
2 sticks room temperature butter
1/2 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 t vanilla
2 room temperature eggs
3 T plus 1 T cinnamon for rolling
Combine first 4 ingredients in small bowl
Cream butter and sugars
Add vanilla
Add eggs one at a time
Beat in flour in 3 incorporations
About to add eggs and vanilla to creamed butter/sugars
(*optional-let dough rest for half hour in fridge*)
Roll balls of dough in cinnamon/sugar mixture
Bake for 8-10 mins
Fancy cookie scoop
balls...
All rolled in cinnamon sugar 'bout to go in the oven
DONUT GLAZE
Stuff you'll need
2 t hot milk
1/2 t vanilla
1/2 cup powdered sugar (10x sugar)
whisk together and let set for a sec til it's kinda room temp. (how frickin' easy was THAT?)
pour over cookies or dip cookies into the glaze.
nom
You're welcome.
Don't forget to lick the beater!
