How to Cook Delicious Snickerdoodles

Snickerdoodles.

You can cook Snickerdoodles using 12 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Snickerdoodles

1. You need 1 cup of softened butter.
2. You need 1 cup of sugar.
3. Prepare 1 tsp of nutmeg.
4. Prepare 2 tsp of pure vanilla.
5. You need 2 of eggs, beaten.
6. It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
7. It's 1 Tbs of baking powder.
8. It's 3 cups of AP flour.
9. It's of For coating:.
10. You need 1/3 cup of sugar.
11. It's 1 Tbs of cinnamon.
12. It's Pinch of nutmeg.

Snickerdoodles instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. With electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until fluffy.
3. Add nutmeg, vanilla and egg. Mix thoroughly.
4. Add powder and mix.
5. Add flour slowly, and scrape down mixer as needed.
6. Scoop cookies, rolling each cookie into a ball with your hands.
7. In separate bowl, mix sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg for topping.
8. Roll each cookie in topping a d place on cookie sheet.
9. They will not spread but will need to be flattened with a spatula before baking.
10. Bake about 12 minutes, centers should be soft but not doughy..
11. For traditional sugar cookies, just roll out and cut the dough into shapes. It won't need to be refrigerated. Frost or decorate as you like.
12. For peppermint "kringles", omit nutmeg and use only 1 tsp of vanilla. Add 2-3 tsp peppermint extract and 1 tsp of red food coloring..
13. Roll each kringle in red and green nonpareils or regular sugar instead of the cinnamon sugar.