Description
Festive christmas snickerdoodles bring warmth and cheer to holiday gatherings. Cinnamon-sugar coated cookies offer sweet comfort that draws people closer together.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup (227 grams) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 ½ cups (300 grams) granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 ¾ cups (344 grams) all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ tsps cream of tartar
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- 2 tbsps granulated sugar
- 2 tsps ground cinnamon
- 2 tbsps red sanding sugar
- 2 tbsps green sanding sugar
Instructions
- Preparation: Organize all baking equipment and ingredients for seamless Christmas snickerdoodle preparation.
- Thermal Calibration: Preheat oven to 400F (200C) and line baking sheets with parchment paper for pristine cookie development.
- Dry Ingredient Harmony: Whisk flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt in a mixing bowl to create a uniform dry foundation.
- Butter Transformation: Cream butter and sugar using an electric mixer until light and fluffy, developing a silky base for the cookies.
- Wet Ingredient Integration: Add eggs one at a time, blending thoroughly, then incorporate vanilla extract to elevate aromatic complexity.
- Dough Composition: Gently fold dry ingredients into wet mixture, maintaining a tender cookie texture through minimal mixing.
- Festive Coating Creation: Combine granulated sugar and cinnamon, then divide into two separate bowls, embellishing each with red and green sanding sugars.
- Cookie Shaping: Form dough into uniform tablespoon-sized spheres, meticulously coating half in red-tinted and half in green-tinted cinnamon sugar.
- Baking Precision: Arrange sugar-coated dough balls on prepared sheets, ensuring strategic spacing, and bake for 8-10 minutes until edges firm and centers remain tender.
- Cooling Finale: Remove from oven, rest briefly on baking sheets, then transfer snickerdoodles to wire racks, completing the festive culinary experience.
Notes
- Prevent Tough Cookies: Avoid overmixing the dough to keep snickerdoodles soft and tender, as excessive mixing develops gluten that makes cookies dense.
- Butter Temperature Matters: Use room temperature butter for smooth, even mixing and better cookie texture, ensuring it’s soft but not melted.
- Sugar Coating Technique: Roll dough balls completely in cinnamon-sugar mixture, gently pressing to help coating adhere and create a crisp, sparkly exterior.
- Precise Baking Time: Watch cookies closely during last 2 minutes of baking; they should look slightly underbaked in center, as they’ll continue cooking on hot baking sheet and set while cooling.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 23
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 10 g
- Sodium: 80 mg
- Fat: 7 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 20 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 30 mg