Old Fashioned Snickerdoodles

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

• Ready In: 19 mins
• 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.