Cookies

Emma and Lucy were here a weekend ago and wanted to make cookies. We decided on snickerdoodles. I have made many recipes for this and I always come back to the one I found in a children's cookbook. I haven't found one nearly as good anywhere else.

We even made our own colored sugar to roll them in instead of the usual cinnamon and sugar. Here they are smiling with their cookies.

Oh and of course what would a photo shoot be without the goofy face picture?

Snickerdoodles
¾ cup sugar
½ cup butter
1 egg
½ teaspoon vanilla
1 ½ cups flour
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cinnamon

In large mixing bowl cream the ¾ cup sugar and the butter with a wooden spoon. Beat in the egg and vanilla.
In small bowl stir together flour, salt, baking soda, and cream of tartar. Stir into butter mixture with wooden spoon till well mixed.

In a small bowl, combine the 2 tablespoons sugar and the cinnamon. Shape dough into one-inch balls; roll each in the sugar-cinnamon mixture. Put balls two inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350º for 10 to 12 minutes.

Stay tuned for baking bread with Byron.