Snickerdoodles are one of my favorite cookies. Sitting here at the lake yesterday afternoon and I thought . . I wish I had bought cookies! I wasn’t about to drive to the store. There’s nothing close. Then I wondered if I couldn’t dig up the ingredients to make snickerdoodles.
I had brought vanilla and cream of tartar with me for the pie/meringue. There’s salt here. I brought butter, sugar and flour. Eggs . . I always bring plenty from home. In fact, I had two extra dozen so I gave those to a neighbor and was thinking I might have to go borrow one or two of them back but I remembered I had a partial carton still in the fridge.
Baking soda . . I didn’t bring baking soda but I remembered seeing a box in the fridge. I’m sure it’s there to control odor but I smelled it and it didn’t smell bad so . . what could 1 tsp. baking soda from the fridge deodorant hurt? I used it. I also did not have cinnamon but there were a couple of spice bottles in the fridge and lucky for me . . one was cinnamon!
Snickerdoodles
Half the recipe actually made a few more than 2 dozen. The perfect amount for a few days worth and leaving some for my uncle.
Linda in NE says
Snickerdoodles are one of my favorites too. I made some with my 4 yr. old grandchildren the last time they stayed for a couple days. I must say, you travel well prepared!
Swooze says
I love snickerdoodles too. I use so much cinnamon they are brown…lol
Terri Schanz says
Snickerdoodles are one of our favorite cookies too. My grandmother used to make them, and in her later years, when birthday gifts were hard for her to afford, she would give us a box of snickernoodles for our birthday for our “very own.” We shared them, of course, but always made a show of the fact that “they’re all mine” before we did that. They’re also one of the few cookies you can make with stuff you usually have in the house all the time. That was a godsend after I was married and had kids when our budget was stretched to the limit and we wanted a treat or something sweet. When my husband was unemployed for a while, we ate bean soup and snickerdoodles a LOT!!
Nelle Coursey says
YUM!! He is one lucky guy!
Annie O says
They are good cookies! My sister wrote out a recipe for these when she was about 12–she left out the “c” in Snickerdoodles, and our family has called them Sn?kerdoodles ever since. ?
AnnieO says
Well that didn’t show up right! We say it with a long i.
Ruth says
I love Snickerdoodles!! Because I always have the ingredients already in the cupboard and fridge. I, too, use the baking soda from the fridge all the time. Gelatin and baking soda are two ingredients that don’t lose their cooking qualities over time (unless they get wet.)