Snickerdoodles

Day 3 over at Holidailies is: Share your favorite holiday recipe. Where/when did you first try it.

The snickerdoodle was my grandma's favorite cookie.  I always got to help her make these cookies.  To this day, the smell takes me back to my grandma's kitchen.  Both of us are in our aprons and I am on a stool.  I really miss my grandma.  I don't have her recipe, but here is a good one.  My daughter love snickerdoodles too.  It is her favorite cookie...a wonderful connection to a great grandma she never got to meet.

Snickerdoodles

1/2 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup shortening

1 1/2 cups white sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp vanilla extact

2 3/4 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp cream of tarter

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

2 tbsp white sugar

2 tsp ground cinnamon

Directions:

1.  Preheat oven to 400*

2.  Cream together butter, shortening, 1 1/2 cups of white sugar, the eggs, and vanilla.  Blend in the flour, cream of tarter,  baking soda and salt.  Shape dough by rounded spoonfuls into balls.

3.  Mix the remaining sugar and cinnamon.  Rolls balls in mixture and place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.

4.  Bake 8 to 10 minutes until set, but not too hard.  Remove immediately from sheets.  

Yields approximately 4 dozen.  

Elexis and I will be making these very soon.  I can't wait to make more memories with her.

Recipe and picture came from here.