Best Snickerdoodle Recipe Ever
If you love a Snickerdoodle and you are a chocoholic you’re going to go bonkers over this recipe! Intensely chocolate and packed with a flavor punch of cinnamon, they are the best Snickerdoodle EVER! I have to give credit to “Miss T” for sharing this recipe with me. I will also take this opportunity to say how proud I am that she has turned into a proficient cook. There were years where I doubted that she’d ever eat anything besides french fries and ramen noodles. I am thrilled to say she’s come a long way, I mean the girl even loves asparagus and arugula!
Already in my pj’s, I hung around the kitchen waiting for a snickerdoodle, warm from the oven with a glass of cold milk, as a midnight snack. You see, she decided to bake these around 11:00p.m. during my recent visit. She gets full credit for the recipe, I will however, take credit for the idea to roll these decadent cookies in a mixture of Black Onyx Chocolate Sugar and cinnamon, instead of the usual white sugar. If you aren’t familiar with Black Onyx Chocolate Sugar it can be found at Savory Spice Shop.
Whether you make them the traditional way with white sugar and cinnamon or with the Black Onyx sugar they are the best cookies, ever. She whipped out a couple dozen cookies and we quickly devoured more than I care to divulge. I recently baked a batch to serve our weekend dinner guests and once again they disappeared lickety-split! These delicious chocolatey, cinnamon scented, tender cookies will produce the ultimate cookie exchange cookie recipe or homemade gift for the holidays.
In case you’re already feeling guilty about noshing on these yummy cookies did you know just a 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon has some amazing healthy benefits? Chock full of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory it also offers positive effects on blood sugar levels, digestion, immunity. Yes, I know we’d need to eat most of the cookies to ingest that much cinnamon, but hey now you know the benefits of cinnamon, in case you didn’t already. I want you to bake these because they are ahhh-mazing and I just don’t want you to feel guilty! You can thank me later…
The Best Snickerdoodle Recipe Ever
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp. cream of tartar
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 tbsp. pure Mexican vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- Cinnamon-Sugar Coating
- 1/4 cup Black Onyx Chocolate Sugar
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350*F
- Lightly grease cookie sheets
- In a stand mixer beat butter and both sugars until light and fluffy
- Beat in cream of tartar, soda and salt
- Beat in eggs, one at a time
- Add vanilla extract and blend well
- Stir in cocoa and flour just until blended
- Mix Black Onyx sugar and cinnamon in a small, shallow bowl
- Scoop out a generous tablespoon of cookie dough and form into a ball
- Roll ball of dough in cinnamon sugar mixture, coating all sides
- Place on prepared cookie sheet and flatten gently with heel of your hand
- Bake for 10-12 minutes
- Allow cookies to cool for a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack for cooling
- Store in an airtight container
