Snickerdoodles

Submitted by Reddyrat

"This recipe is a variation on the Simple Sugar Cookies recipe from the King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion. It makes a great cookie. I used dry buttermilk powder - 1T and 1/4 cup water. I added the dry powder to the shortening/sugar mixture and then added 1/4 cup water. I added the sugar and flour by weight rather than by cup measurement."

 

• Ready In: 12mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Yields: 20 cookies

ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup vegetable shortening
• 2⁄3 cup sugar
• 1⁄4 cup buttermilk or 1/4 cup sour milk
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1⁄8 - 1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg or 1/8-1/4 teaspoon cinnamon, to taste
• 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt

directions

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
2. In a large mixing bowl, beat together the shortening and sugar until smooth. Add the buttermilk and vanilla, again beating until well combined.
3. Add the nutmeg/cinnamon, flour, baking soda, and salt to the wet ingredients and beat until the mixture forms a cohesive dough.
4. Place about 1/2 cup cinnamon-sugar (1 teaspoon cinnamon mixed with 1/2 cup sugar) in a shallow bowl.
5. Gather 1 tablespoon of dough and roll it into a ball. Place the ball in the bowl or bag of cinnamon sugar. When you've got five or six dough balls in the sugar, gently shake them until they're completely coated. Place them on a lightly greased or parchment-lined cookie sheet, leaving about 1.5 inches between them. Using the bottom of a glass, flatten each cookie until it's about 1/2-inch thick.
6. Bake the snickerdoodles for 12 minutes. Remove the cookies from the oven and cool them on a wire rack.

Reviews

[Chef Tweaker]

I followed this almost to the T. I substitued 1/3 cup of homemade plain yogurt for the buttermilk and the flavor came through in a good way. I would probably be able to give this 5 stars except that the cook time was too long. I was a little leery but also was waiting for them to "crackle" on top since most snickerdoodles do... but these didn't and I let them brown too much. I think I pulled them at 10 minutes and they were too brown so in the future I will start checking at 8 minutes. They still tasted good.