Buttery Snickerdoodles
October 9, 2017 | By Jeremy Scheck | 2 Comments
Bake up these cinnamon–flecked butter cookies, and your whole house will smell like love. This recipe comes from Bon Appétit, but I simplified the method slightly, and I added the gram measurements (which I use).
Buttery Snickerdoodles
Ingredients
- 2-1/2 cups (325g) all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 sticks (226g) unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled
- 1/2 cup (100g) brown sugar
- 1 cup (200g) granulated sugar (or vanilla sugar)
- 2 eggs, at room temperature (to bring refrigerated eggs to room temperature, submerge them in warm water before use)
- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar + 1-1/2 tablespoon ground cinnamon + more cinnamon for sprinkling
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400° F. Line two cookie sheets with baking parchement or silicone mats.
- In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt to combine and aerate.
- Place the brown sugar and 1 cup of granulated sugar in a large mixing bowl or bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Pour the melted butter over the sugars and beat on medium speed with electric beaters to combine.
- Crack in both eggs, and beat on high speed (medium-high speed if using stand mixer) for 3 minutes. Actually time the 3 minutes.
- Gradually beat in the dry ingredients on low. The dough will be very loose.
- Let the dough stand at room temperature for at least a half hour. During this time the flour will hydrate and the dough will thicken. It's basically magic. Mix together the remaining granulated sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl.
- Use a 1.5 tablespoon cookie scoop to make a dozen balls of dough for the first batch (if you're not using a standard half-sheet pan you may need to make smaller batches). Toss the dough balls in the cinnamon sugar and arrange on the prepared cookie sheet with at least 2 inches between each cookie. They spread a lot.
- Sprinkle extra cinnamon on top of each dough ball and bake for 8-10 minutes until puffed and lightly golden brown. They should not be cooked all the way through. Let the cookies cool on the sheet for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. As the second batch bakes, you can reuse the first cookie sheet for the third batch (and so on as necessary).
Jeremy Scheck spent high school perfecting his signature cupcakes, making quiches and coffee cake by the dozen at a local bakery, and teaching cooking demonstrations at Williams-Sonoma. As a 10th grader in 2016, he began documenting his favorite recipes on a blog called The After School Bakery. In college, Jeremy learned to make 50 gallons of ice cream in the food science lab, how to prune grape vines in the teaching vineyard, the best way to milk a cow in Northern Italy, and why film photography is an art worth saving. As a sophomore in 2020, he traded blog photos for video and became a TikTok culinary sensation. Jeremy has been featured on the Today show, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, BBC Radio, People, and Access Hollywood, among others. Jeremy is a graduate of Cornell University with a double major in Spanish and Italian, and significant coursework in food science. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. Learn more about Jeremy.
Dough was a little different than any other cookie I’ve made, but came together just like recipe said. Cookies were awesome!
Is there no vanilla in this?