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At the request of my art school classmates, I’m posting my recipe for Snickerdoodles! Okay, some people look at me funny when I say this, but this is actually what these cookies are called….Snickerdoodles (aka cinnamon sugar cookies). Either way, they’re delicious, and remind me of  childhood recess snacks.

Snickerdoodles

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg (or in my case, 1 egg replacer)
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/4 tsp cream of tartar
• 1/4 tsp baking soda

For rolling…

• 2 Tbsp sugar
• 2 tsp cinnamon

1. In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat butter to soften, add sugar and beat until soft. Add egg/egg replacer and vanilla and whip well, until soft and fluffy.

2. In another bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients. Add 2/3 of the dry ingredients to the whipped butter mixture and whip until combined. Add in the remaining flour and mix by hand. 

3. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and chill 1 hour.

4. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F and line a baking sheet with parchment.

5. Roll dough into one inch balls, then roll them in cinnamon sugar mixture before placing them on the prepared sheet.  Once you have placed the cookies on the sheet, flatten them a bit with a fork.

6. Bake for 10 minutes for a nice soft chewy cookie. Transfer to a cooling rack. Makes about 18 cookies.

Sorry no pic These disappeared too fast!