Old Fashioned Snickerdoodles

Submitted by Chef #1052851

"This recipe came from my great grandmother & was passed down to me as a child."

 

• Ready In: 19mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 3 Dozen

ingredients

• 1 cup softened oleo
• 2 eggs
• 1 egg white
• 1 cup sugar
• 1⁄4 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Cream together oleo, sugar (setting aside 1/4 cup of sugar), and eggs until smooth. In seperate bowl sift together all dry ingredients.
3. Combine wet & dry ingredients.
4. In seperate bowl combine cinnamon & sugar.
5. Drop dough by spoonful ( 1 inch balls) into cinn. & sugar mixture, and roll making sure coat doughball evenly with sugar. Place on ungreased cookie sheet 1 1/2 to 2 inches apart. After filling one cookie sheet, then by using your thumb and 2 first fingers pressed together to make like a triangle, make a slight indentation into cookies. Then fill the 3 indentations with cinn. & sugar.
6. Bake at 350 for 9 min or until golden.
7. Cool on cookie rack and store.
8. These cookies should turn out very soft and cakelike. If the 1st batch turns out a little flat then add about 3-4 TBSP of flour.