Green Holiday Guide: Snickerdoodles
| December 8, 2010 | Posted by Lisa Sharp under Green Holidays, Recipe |
Tomorrow I’m taking some snickerdoodles to the local recycling coalition meeting. I believe doing little things like baking cookies for others is a great way to make the holidays more meaningful and bring joy to others. You will likely get some joy out of it as well. You will also have to try the cookies, so you get two things out of it.
Well on to the cookies, these snickerdoodles are super easy and yummy. My husband who isn’t a big snickerdoodle fan will eat these and says “these are really good for snickerdoodles.” Which pretty much means they are good but he wishes they were chocolate chip.
You can make the snickerdoodles a bit more festive with colored sugar in place of the plain sugar used for rolling. I didn’t plan ahead so couldn’t make any so I just added some sprinkles to the sugar. Colored sugar would have been cuter.
Snickerdoodles
Ingredients:
- 3/4 cup butter
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- Extra sugar for rolling
- Preheat oven to 400′
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Add egg and vanilla, mix well.
- Add dry ingredients, mix until blended.
- Roll into balls and roll in sugar.
- Place on cookie sheet and bake for about 10 minutes (or until browned).
It's so funny to read about these today–in our neck of the woods they are summer cookies!
Once our Chai-spiced cookies are gone I'm whipping up a batch of these.
A girl can only handle so much chocolate chip.
? Rebecca Jean
Midnight Maniac