Mrs. Fields Cinnamon Sugar Cookies

Submitted by senseicheryl

"I received an email this morning with a few copycat recipes in it and this was one of them."

 

• Ready In: 28mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 3 dozen cookies
• Serves: 36

ingredients

• FOR THE TOPPING

• 44.37 ml white sugar
• 14.79 ml ground cinnamon

• FOR THE COOKIES

• 591.47 ml all-purpose flour
• 2.46 ml baking soda
• 1.23 ml salt
• 236.59 ml dark brown sugar, packed
• 118.29 ml white sugar
• 236.59 ml salted butter, softened
• 2 large eggs
• 9.85 ml pure vanilla extract

directions

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
2. In a small bowl, combine sugar and cinnamon for topping. Set aside.
3. In a medium bowl combine flour, soda and salt. Mix well with a whire whisk and set aside.
4. In a large bowl, blend sugars with an electric mixer set at medium speed. Add the butter and mix to form a grainy paste. Scrape sides of bowl, then add the eggs and vanilla extract. Mix at medium speed until light and fluffy.
5. Add the flour mixture and blend at low speed just until combined. Do not overmix.
6. Shape dough into 1-inch balls and roll each ball in cinnamon-sugar topping.
7. Place onto ungreased cookie sheets, 2 inches apart. Bake for 18-20 minutes. Immediately transfer cookies with a spatula to a cool, flat surface.

Reviews

[avahria]

This was excellent! Like another commenter stated, adding in cream of tartar really made these stand out. The tricky part was shaping the cookies because of the consistency of the dough. For ease I used two tablespoons of the cookie dough, and rolled them that way to get larger uniform cookies which yielded to about 21 in total. Thanks again for the recipe!

 

[ks74.mail]

I've been making this cookie for over 20 years. My daughter's favorite and now my husband's. I have done a couple different tweaks that are also tasty. I have added bananas to the dough; and sometimes for a lighter cookie, I've topped with honey instead of coating with the cinnamon/sugar.

 

[sunalicia8]

I just made the cookies. The only thing I did different was add 1/2 tsp of Cream of Tartar to the recipe. They turned out delicious. I will definitely use this recipe for Snickerdoodles in the future.

 

[internetnut]

I gave this recipe 3 stars. My family liked these cookies especially my newphes 5 & 7 yrs old. They goobled these right down. I wasn't crazy over the butter taste these cookies had. I was hoping these were more like a snickerdoodle without the cream of tartar, but the butter just over powered the cinnamon/sugar taste. When I made these cookies I made a few minor changes to the recipe. I used Splenda for the sugar/cinnamon as I find they go together really nicely. I used Splenda brown sugar and Splenda sugar blend (for the white sugar). I did also add 1 scoop of plain protein powder. The first day I made these cookies they turned out very soft and chewy. I refrigerated the dough for a couple of days and the cookies rolled pretty good but they seemed to get really hard when baked. Overall these were good flavored cookies that I'll make again. Thanks for posting a good recipe. Christine (internetnut)

 

[ConnieBella76]

These are so delicious....chewy and buttery and just yummy. I made them for my husband's lunch, and wound up eating most of the batch of cookies before I put any in his lunch! You just can't stop eating them once you start. SOOOOO GOOOOOOD!