Ingredients
- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cups sugar, plus 3 tablespoons
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Sift the flour, baking soda, and salt into a bowl.
With a handheld or standing mixer, beat together the shortening and butter. Add the 1 1/2 cups sugar and continue beating until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the flour mixture and blend until smooth.
Mix the 3 tablespoons sugar with the cinnamon in a small bowl. Roll the dough, by hand, into 1 1/2-inch balls. Roll the balls in the cinnamon sugar. Flatten the balls into 1/2-inch thick disks, spacing them evenly on unlined cookie sheets. Bake until light brown, but still moist in the center, about 12 minutes. Cool on a rack.
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By elder1632
Roseville,CA
on January 23, 2012
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When the neighbor hood kids beg me to make "those" cookies again you know they absolutely ROCKED Good!
By terzim
San Diego, CA
on December 18, 2011
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The flavor of these cookies is very good, but I gave them 4 stars because of some problems with the directions. First, the recipe says it makes only 20 cookies, so I made a double batch, but in truth, one batch will make at least 4 dozen, so I wound up with over a hundred of these! Also, these cookies spread quite a bit when they bake, so if you make the balls 1-1/2 inches, the cookies will be huge. Finally, I could not get them to be soft in the middle, even when I reduced both the heat and the cooking time. All that said, this is a very tasty, albeit crunchy cookie.
By nursedunlap
on December 18, 2011
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I want to start off by saying, before trying this recipe, I'd never even tasted a Snickerdoodle. I am not a fan of sweets, but will occassionally nibble on a cookie or other sweet. Hearing the name Snickerdoodles, I always thought of overly sweet chewy cookies. When I tried this recipe I added 1 teaspoon of vanilla flavoring. These cookies were so DELICIOUS! I ate 5 back to back! I ended up having to make 4 more batches after allowing friends and family to taste, they were all hooked. My husband usually likes my cookies, but never comments, when he tasted these his eyes lit up and he said they were good and tasted better than any he'd had. Also my batch made almost 60 cookies, Emeril must have had gigantic cookies.
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