Snickerdoodles

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 3 teaspoons cinnamon

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 cream together butter, sugar, vanilla and eggs.
• 3 in a separate bowl, sift together all dry ingredients except *cinnamon-sugar mixture.
• 4 a little at a time, add the sifted ingredients to the creamed butter/sugar/eggs, mixing gently to fully incorporate each addition before adding more.
• 5 chill dough in refrigerator until firm enough to roll into balls (check after about 15 minutes).
• 6 form about a tablespoon of dough into a round ball for each cookie.
• 7 roll each ball in the *cinnamon-sugar mixture, ensuring that entire surface is coated.
• 8 place on an ungreased cookie sheet, spacing about 2 inches apart to allow for spreading.
• 9 note: after filling each cookie sheet, put the unused dough back into the refrigerator so that it stays chilled enough to handle easily for the next batch.
• 10 bake cookies for 8-10 minutes.
• 11 let cookies cool a few minutes on the baking pan, and then transfer to wire racks to cool completely before packing into cookie tins.