Posted in Kubes Kitchen Recipe Box

 

Yesterafternoon, MamaKeeper sugessted I bake some 'Cakies',

but I was sad to discover we had no cocoa powder .

So I grabbed the cookbooks and tried to find some other cookies to bake.

Snickerdoodles sounded good, (to all of us!) and so Snickerdoodles it was.

Between my two favorite cookbooks, I found 2 different recipes.

One with shortening, and one without. We hardly ever have shortening in the house,

but due to a donation from a friend, we did have it!

So I decided to share the recipe with shortening ...

 

Snickerdoodles

(from Betty Crocker 40th Anniversary Edition Cookbook)

altered a tad...

 

1 1/2 cups        Sugar

1/2 cup            Margarine / butter, softened

1/2 cup            Shortening

2                      Eggs

2 3/4 cups        Flour

2 teaspoons     Cream of tartar

1 teaspoon       Baking soda

1/4 teaspoon    Salt

1/4 cup            Suagr

2 teaspoons     Ground cinnamon

 

Heat oven to 400 degrees. Mix 1 1/2 cups sugar, margarine, shortening and eggs.

Stir in flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt...

 

 

(This, I thought, was quite difficult and seemed like you'd never get all the flour stirred in,

but keep folding it into the dough and it will happen!)

 

Mix 1/4 cup of sugar and cinnamon.

Then shape dought into balls and roll them in the mixture...

 

 

 

Place 2 inches (get out the ruler  ... ha ha...) apart on a cookie sheet.

We like to use our baking stone! Mmmm...

 

 

I flattened them a little with a fork, like with peanut butter cookies.

Bake 8 to 10 minuets or until set; cool.

Yeah, cool! These cookies are so good!

 

 

Makes about 4 dozen.

I did make a double batch, and silly me ate too much batter and got a bad tummy ache .

But I did enjoy listening in on MamaKeeper reading a book to my brother

while waiting for the cookies to come out to reuse the stone...

 

 

Finally, they were all done...

 

 

There were more cookies, but due to them all not fitting on the stone

and to hungry tummies , these are the only models. YUM!

 

 

 

 

... I would also like to note the other recipe,

in case, like us, you don't normally keep shortening in the cabinet.

 

Snickerdoodles

(from Better Homes & Gardens' New Cookbook)

 

1/2 cup                  Margarine 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

 

Oven 375 degrees. Beat butter with electric mixer. Add about half of flour, 1 cup sugar,

egg, vanilla, baking soda, & cream of tartar. Beat till thoroughly combined.

Beat in remaining flour. Cover and chill 1 hour.

Shape dough into balls and roll them in 2 TBS sugar & 1 tsp cinnamon mixture.

Place on cookie sheet and bake 10 to 11 minuets. Cool on wire rack. Makes 3 dozen.

 

 

Enjoy!

 

 

~ Keeper2Be