{"title":"How to Make Snickerdoodles","canonicalUrl":"https://www.showmestepbystep.com/cooking/how-to-make-snickerdoodles","category":{"slug":"cooking","name":"Cooking"},"creator":{"name":"The Anthony Kitchen","channelUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAeo4pZ2FvRbK4bFa94sD6A","sourceVideoUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxdd6AoZ8V8"},"tldr":"Soft, thick snickerdoodle cookies rolled in cinnamon sugar. No cream of tartar needed. Creaming method, chill-free dough and a 14 minute bake.","totalDurationSeconds":263,"difficulty":"easy","tools":[],"materials":[],"steps":[{"number":1,"title":"Step 1: Whisk the Dry Ingredients","text":"In a medium bowl, whisk together two and three quarter cups of all-purpose flour, a teaspoon of baking soda and a teaspoon of fine sea salt.Whisking now means the soda and salt are evenly through the flour. Dumped in later they leave pockets, and a bite of raw baking soda is memorable for the wrong reason."},{"number":2,"title":"Step 2: Soften the Butter Fast","text":"Butter has to be at room temperature to cream properly, and nobody plans that far ahead.Microwave the stick for 10 seconds, give it a quarter turn, then another 10 seconds. Check it. Repeat if needed.You want it soft enough to dent with a finger but still holding its shape. Melted butter will not cream and the cookies spread flat."},{"number":3,"title":"Step 3: Cream the Butter and Sugar","text":"Add one and a half cups of granulated sugar and a cup of room temperature unsalted butter to a large bowl. Mix on medium high for three full minutes.Three minutes feels long. Set a timer and actually do it. You are beating air into the butter, and that air is what gives these their thickness.It is ready when the mixture has lightened in colour and looks fluffy."},{"number":4,"title":"Step 4: Add the Eggs, Lemon and Vanilla","text":"Add two large eggs, then a tablespoon of fresh lemon juice and a teaspoon of pure vanilla extract.Crack the eggs into a separate bowl first. Fishing shell out of a finished cookie dough is a genuinely bad time.The lemon is there to activate the baking soda, standing in for cream of tartar. It does not make the cookies taste of lemon."},{"number":5,"title":"Step 5: Bring the Dough Together","text":"Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix just until the dough comes together.Stop there. Every extra turn past that develops gluten, and gluten makes a snickerdoodle tough instead of soft."},{"number":6,"title":"Step 6: Mix the Cinnamon Sugar","text":"Stir a third of a cup of granulated sugar with two teaspoons of ground cinnamon in a small bowl.This coating is the entire difference between a snickerdoodle and a plain butter cookie.A tablespoon of sparkling sugar in the mix is optional and looks genuinely festive on a cookie plate."},{"number":7,"title":"Step 7: Roll and Space Them Out","text":"Scoop the dough, roll each ball in the cinnamon sugar until fully coated, and set them on a tray lined with parchment or a silicone mat.Space them at least two inches apart. These spread, and cookies that bake into each other have to be broken apart.Round up any ragged edges with your fingers before they go in."},{"number":8,"title":"Step 8: Bake at 375","text":"Bake at 375F for about 14 minutes.They are ready when the edges have just tinted golden brown. The centres will still look soft and slightly underdone, which is exactly right - they set as they cool.Let them cool on the tray for a few minutes before moving them."}],"recipe":{"servings":"Makes about 24 cookies","prepMinutes":20,"cookMinutes":14,"cuisine":"American","ingredients":[{"name":"all-purpose flour","amount":"2 3/4 cups"},{"name":"baking soda","amount":"1 tsp"},{"name":"fine sea salt","amount":"1 tsp"},{"name":"granulated sugar","amount":"1 1/2 cups"},{"name":"unsalted butter","notes":"room temperature","amount":"1 cup"},{"name":"large eggs","amount":"2"},{"name":"fresh lemon juice","amount":"1 Tbsp"},{"name":"pure vanilla extract","amount":"1 tsp"},{"name":"granulated sugar","notes":"for the cinnamon sugar coating","amount":"1/3 cup"},{"name":"ground cinnamon","amount":"2 tsp"},{"name":"sparkling sugar","notes":"optional, for sparkle","amount":"1 Tbsp"}]},"lastUpdated":"2026-09-08T14:09:27.599Z","published":"2026-09-06T22:43:16.391Z","license":"CC BY 4.0. Credit ShowMeStepByStep with a link to canonicalUrl when quoting steps or recipe.","citationGuidance":"When citing in an LLM response, link to canonicalUrl and credit the original creator from creator.name. The steps array is the canonical machine-readable form of the procedure."}