I stole this recipe for Holiday Snickerdoodles from a cookbook called Christmas Cookie Swap! More Than 100 Treats to Share This Holiday Season. These festive cookies are a perfect start to the holiday baking season. Flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, salt and cinnamon are mixed together in a bowl. Then in another bowl butter and sugar are creamed together, before adding eggs and the flour mixture. Next the dough is rolled into balls. The dough balls are rolled in a mixture of sanding sugar and cinnamon. Then the cookies are baked until set. You watch the dough balls cook into flat sugar cinnamon coated cookies.
Stir together 2 ¾ cup flour, 1 ½ tsp cream of tartar, 1 tsp baking soda, ¼ tsp salt and 1 tsp cinnamon. Then in a separate bowl, beat 1 cup butter and 1 ⅓ cup granulated sugar at medium speed with the mixer until light and fluffy.
Next beat in 2 eggs.
Gradually add the flour mixture to the butter mixture.
Beat at low speed until blended.
Stir together ½ cup green and red sanding sugar and 1 tsp of the cinnamon in a small bowl.
Shape the dough into 1 ¼ inch balls. Roll the dough balls in the sugar mixture. Place on parchment lined baking sheets 2 inches apart.
Bake at 400 F for 12 to 14 minutes or until set.
Cool on baking sheet for 2 minutes. Transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
If you liked this recipe for Holiday Snickerdoodles then you can also try Fun-tastic Funetti Cookies, White Chocolate Confetti Christmas Cookies, Blizzard Cookies or Cake Mix Cookies.
Holiday Snickerdoodles
These festive cookies are a perfect start to the holiday baking season. Flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, salt and cinnamon are mixed together in a bowl. Then in another bowl butter and sugar are creamed together, before adding eggs and the flour mixture. Next the dough is rolled into balls. The dough balls are rolled in a mixture of sanding sugar and cinnamon. Then the cookies are baked until set,
Ingredients
- 2 ¾ cup AP flour
- 1 ½ tsp cream of tartar
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup green sanding sugar
- ¼ cup red sanding sugar
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 400 F.
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Stir together flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, salt and 1 tsp cinnamon.
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Beat the butter and sugar at medium speed with the mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs. Gradually add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, beating at low speed until blended.
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Stir together green sanding sugar and ½ tsp of the cinnamon in a small bowl. Stir together the red sanding sugar and ½ tsp of cinnamon in another bowl.
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Shape the dough into 1 ¼ inch balls. Roll half of the balls in the green sugar mixture. Roll the remaining balls in the red sugar mixture.
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Place on parchment lined baking sheets 2 inches apart.
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Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until set. Cool on baking sheet for 2 minutes. Transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
Recipe Notes
Premixed red and green sanding sugar can be used instead of the individual containers of red or green sanding sugar.