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Cooking Class: Spiced Snickerdoodles

Recipe: Spiced Snickerdoodles

Summary: Familiar childhood favorite Snickerdoodle cookies get a few more warm spices to keep it interesting!

Ingredients

Cookie dough

Spiced Sugar for rolling

Instructions

  1. Heat oven to 400F degrees. Get out a baking sheet or cookie sheet, read through this recipe and get out all the ingredients you need. Kids, wash your hands with soap and water!
  2. Make the dough: Put the butter, ¾ cup sugar, egg, vanilla and salt in the bowl of an electric mixer. Beat on medium until the mixture is well blended, about a minute. Turn mixer to low speed and mix in flour, cream of tartar and baking soda until everything is well combined.
  3. Make the Spiced Sugar: In a separate wide, flat bowl using a little spoon, mix the cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and cloves until well combined. Set this bowl near your cookie sheet.
  4. Remove dough bowl from mixer and, using your hands, roll about 1 rounded teaspoon of the dough in the palms of your hands so it rolls into a ball. (Math lesson: You will be making 24 cookies, so to figure out how much dough to use for each cookie, you might want to divide the dough into half, then divide each of those into half again. That way you know that you will get 6 cookies out of each portion of dough. 4 portions of dough times 6 cookies for each portion will give you 24 cookies. See, math can be delicious!)Spiced Snickerdoodles / www.ShockinglyDelicious.com [8]
  5. Roll them: Roll each ball into the Spiced Sugar mixture to coat it. Place ball on an ungreased baking sheet (cookie sheet). Leave a bit of room between each cookie because they will spread while baking.Spiced Snickerdoodles / www.ShockinglyDelicious.com [9]
  6. Bake: Place baking sheet in hot oven and bake until the cookies are flat and light golden brown, about 8-10 minutes.Spiced Snickerdoodles / www.ShockinglyDelicious.com [10]
  7. Using oven mitts, remove the baking sheet from the oven and put it on another hot pad or surface that is OK for hot pans. Let the cookies cool for about 2 minutes, and then use a spatula to remove each cookie from the baking sheet onto a cooling rack. Let the cookies cool completely.
  8. Makes 24 cookies.Spiced Snickerdoodles / www.ShockinglyDelicious.com [11]

Recipe source

Inspired by and adapted from a recipe in “Kids Cookies: Scrumptious Recipes for Bakers Ages 9-13,” by Williams-Sonoma Kitchen Library.

Variations

If you don’t have the extra spices, you may simply use the 2 teaspoons cinnamon in the Spiced Sugar, but the additional spices really do make the difference in creating a more interesting cookie! We recommend them!

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Diet type: Vegetarian
Number of servings (yield): 12
Culinary tradition: USA (General)
My rating 5 stars:  ★★★★★ 

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Spiced Snickerdoodles / www.ShockinglyDelicious.com [14]Disclosure: McCormick compensated me for this post in partnership with Kitchen PLAY. All opinions, writing and photography are my own.