Snicker Doodles and Helpful Tips

One of my all time favorite types of cookies are Snickerdoodles, these divide, sugary cookies are perfect for anytime of day or event. Butter is a main ingredient in all cookies and cakes is butter. Butter can be a pain, it tends to have specific instrucitons for how it is to be added to the batter. In this case you were supposed to add the softened butter as the first ingredient. Of course I had forgotten to remove the butter from the fridge before I started baking. You can't use un-softened butter in this case because it needs to whipped. To slove this issue I use a trick that I discovered.

Rather than trying to get the butter perfectly softened all the way through in the microwave, I put the butter on top of the toaster oven and turn it on for about 5 minutes. Then I rotate it every few minutes to make sure it doesn't melt.

You could also do this with a regular toaster by setting it across the top of the toaster with a shorter amount of time.

After I made the dough and allowed it to chill for just over an hour, I rolled it into perfect balls then dipped them in the sugar mixture. To make the balls perfectly round I take an 1" by 1" chunk of dough and roll it between my hands life playdough. This makes the end result of perfectly round cookies.













The cook book says to "[Bake] for 10-11 minutes or till edges are golden. Cool cookies on wire rack"(119). While I was making them the edges became golden brown but the middle didn't really seem done, so I kept baking them. Bad idea. What I should have done is bake them for about 10 minutes and then allow them to cool first on the baking sheet and then the wire rack. If I had done this it would have made the snickerdoodles light and fluffy rather than light and hard.

Recipie:
1/2 cup margine or butter
1 1/2 cups all- purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Better Homes and Gardens: New Cook Book. Des Moines: Merdith, 1989. Print.