How To Make The Best Snickerdoodle Cinnamon Recipes

Tired of the ordinary cookies? Worry no more! This article will give you a full blast of surprise on how to turn your regular cookie into a superb one. You are in for a treat of a sumptuous pastry dessert, THE Best Snickerdoodle! Snickerdoodles are sometimes heard as an expression of endearment by some foreign people, and it’s because this is a cookie or a sweet pastry. 

There’s nothing wrong with exploring the new ventures of the food you eat. You don’t settle with the normal and the ordinary ones. You upgrade, evolve, and improve, not only personally but also also your tastebuds. There’s nothing wrong with trying new things. The dish that you’re going to learn today can be made out of scratch, just with all of the ingredients that you have at your homes. So, if you’re bored and on the verge of trying something new, this one’s for you! 

Snickerdoodles can be made in different ways. As you go on with this page, you will learn about the different ways of cooking it, troubleshooting, tips, facts and trivias, and recipes. Everything you need to know is here. The long wait is over, let’s start!

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What Is a Snickerdoodle Cookie?

It is a type of cookie made with butter or oil, sugar, and flour and then rolled in cinnamon sugar. Snickerdoodles are also called sugar cookies. They have a cracked surface and can be crispy or soft, depending on the variations. Moreover, the recipes have evolved into different varieties that will surely suit your taste buds. If you are looking for a perfect gift for your loved ones, this is the way to go!

Snickerdoodles are very common in the United States. However, this pastry is like a hidden gem that still remains to be unknown to some other countries. It has a distinct characteristic that created its trademark in the food industry. Some of the companies developed snickerdoodles into non-edible commercial products like perfume, shampoo, and the like.

The dough may seem a little crumbly once you add the dry ingredients, but this is normal! Keep mixing the dry ingredients and the mixture will come together just fine. Make sure to chill the dough for at least 1 hour so the butter is chilled when they go into the oven. What does this mystery food taste like? A classic one should taste like a sugar pastry, but a little bit tangier from the cream of tartar. It should be flavored with lots of cinnamon and sugar from the topping, too.

The above mentioned proves how versatile of a dish it is. You can serve anything with this food be it side dessert, hot chocolates, coffee, literally anything. Surely, it will satisfy your sweet cravings!

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Ways to Enjoy the Snickerdoodle Recipes

As mentioned in the introduction, you can turn your snickerdoodles into different kinds of desserts. Snickerdoodles are more than just a cookie, you can make it the way you like it!

Here are some suggestions that can help you identify the kind of snickerdoodle you want to achieve. Happy baking!

Cinnamon Cheesecake

Looking for an upgrade on baking your snickerdoodle? This variant might be the one you are looking for. If you love both Snickerdoodles and cheesecakes, then this is the best way to enjoy both on one recipe. The base of the cake will be the snickerdoodles with cinnamon sugar, topped with layers of beaten cream cheese. You can enjoy different layers of perfection in one bite. 

Furthermore, you can also make snickerdoodle cheesecake bars and cheesecake stuffed snickerdoodle cookies. You don’t have to add ingredients on top of it. Just a different style of cooking will do. These variations are perfect for dessert menus and even for business ideas.

Bread

If you are fond of extraordinary breakfast, you can try making Snickerdoodle bread. Don’t be afraid to try this because you can prepare this in less than an hour, just in time for a not so heavy breakfast to start your day! NOTE: you can eat this anytime of the day.

For those who love cinnamon, this is the perfect bread for you. A bread that is topped with cinnamon sugar, and when you bite into it, you taste cinnamon chips in the middle for those crunchy bits. It is best served with butter or strawberry jam.

Perfect Cinnamon Rolls

Don’t know what to do with your extra snickerdoodle dough? Snickerdoodle Cinnamon roll is here to save you! It is a combination of snickerdoodle dough that is soft and chewy inside but crispy on the outside. Usually, just like the ordinary cinnamon rolls, they are topped with vanilla icing twirl.

As you can see, it is different in terms of physical appearance, but they sure go in the same category. It may not be like the cinnamon rolls you always encounter, but once you make your own and taste it, you won’t go anywhere.

Healthy keto

On a diet, but can’t get enough of these sugar cookies? Well, worry no more and enjoy a low-carb and gluten-free version of these snickerdoodles at home. Instead of using regular flour, you can replace them with almond flour, which is recommended for those who are watching their carb intakes.

The procedure of making this is just the same as the regular snickerdoodles. However, you will have to substitute the other ingredients to healthier ones. 

 Snickerdoodle Hot Chocolate

Want something unique for your drinks? Snickerdoodle Hot Chocolate is the best one for you. You can make almost everything out of snickerdoodles. 

This is a drink that originated from Starbucks. Then it became so popular that a lot have copied the recipes or made their version of it. It’s a beverage made with steamed milk, white chocolate, and cinnamon syrup topped with whipped cream and cinnamon sugar. It is best served during cold weather.

Cookie

Snickerdoodle cookies are flat cookies that are soft and chewy and have puffed edges. It has the same shape as the regular ones. The dough should first be rolled in the cinnamon sugar before baking it. 

A classic snickerdoodle recipe should taste like a sugar cookie, but a little bit tangier from the cream of tartar. It should be flavored with lots of cinnamon and sugar from the snickerdoodle topping, too. 

Muffins

For those who love the bread version, here comes a muffin one. If you don’t like biting into hard cookies, then the snickerdoodle muffins’ recipes are for you. It is soft and tender with a cinnamon topping that will keep you wanting for more. Best served during a family picnic and you can enjoy it with a cup of coffee or tea.

Applebread

Do you want to achieve a recipe out of something that will leave a trademark to you? Then the apple bread version is the right one for you. It does not only taste like heaven but also smells like one. Beware because the process of cooking this recipe is very addictive!! 

It is basically a bread with a touch of cinnamon which makes it our recipe for today. The flavor will give you a crackly, cinnamony, chunky feeling inside your mouth. This mouthwatering version is surely one for the books.

Cobbler

Among the kinds of snickerdoodles mentioned, this one is the easiest and the most convenient to make. You will not spend even a minute mixing all of the ingredients, hence, it will eat only 4 seconds at most of your life and tadaaaaa, a snickerdoodle cobbler!

What do you think makes this recipe special?

It’s because cobblers create their own caramel while they are inside the oven. The ingredients are very easy to find- light brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt. This recipe  is amazingly delicious when paired with vanilla ice cream.

Krispie Treats

The game of these recipes is unique. To make this one, you will be needing browned butter, extra marshmallows, and cinnamon sugar.This type of snickerdoodle is also easy to make, they almost have the same procedure with the ordinary krispies. The only difference is the inclusion of the special ingredient which is the cinnamon in this pastry. 

You must achieve a little crunchy texture. The extra marshmallows add more gooey and the browned butter and cinnamon makes the whole situation and the result of the recipe cozy and delicious.

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Troubleshooting 

Mistakes are common especially for the first timers. A lot of problems may arise as you go on with the cooking process. Snickerdoodles’ recipes are very delicate to make. It requires a massive patience and understanding to be able to get good results. 

This article is here to help you fix your snickerdoodle recipe problems. 

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Way to Fix Your Snickerdoodles When Cooking it Wrong

Baking is a whole lot different when it comes to cooking, so if anything goes wrong with the texture, shape and flavor, there is nothing we can do about it anymore, so we just recycle the recipe rather than throw them out. 

Too Soft

If you happened to come across this situation, the best thing for you to do is to add more flour to the mix. This means the ratio of some of the ingredients were not measured well enough that it came out flat. You may have added more than the required amount of liquid in the mixture stated in the recipe. The water should be dropped gradually in the mixture while kneading it. When you achieved the right consistency of the dough, that is the time to stop with the water.

I suggest that you enjoy the cookie recipe as long as it doesn’t taste bad or fold them to make a more fluffy look.

Too Flat

Usually, snickerdoodles come out of the oven flat because of the inconsistency in the dough and the recipe. Sometimes, the dough melts even before it reaches the baking pan. To avoid such, you have to chill the dough after mixing it. It is so because chilling it will thicken the dough and it will help the mixture go well together. Aside from that, you can add more brown sugar in the mixture to make it stiffer. 

1. Refrigerate the dough. ...
2. Butter vs.
3. Don't use margarine. 
4. Don't overbeat the dough.
5. If you're rolling the dough, form the dough balls tall instead of perfectly round.
6. Use parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. 
7. Room temperature pans.

Mistake: When they turn out flat, the bad guy is often butter that is too soft or even melted. This makes the pastry spread. The other culprit is too little flour—don't hold back and make sure you master measuring. Finally, they will also flatten if placed and baked on hot cookie sheets

Too Hard

Hard snickerdoodles are not that appetizing to eat. You can easily determine if your snickerdoodles will be hard once you bake it based on your mixture. Hard snickerdoodles are very easy to treat so you don’t have to worry much about it. Firstly, make sure that your ingredients are under room temperature. It is so to easily incorporate more air into the dough recipe thus will make your dough rise. 

The following might be the reason why they got so hard: 

1. Cooking baked too long
2. Using too much flour
3. Not enough fat in the dough
4. Overmixing your dough

Remember that you have to chill your dough first before baking it for a positive snickerdoodle result. Brown glucose—particularly dark brown ones—makes your pastry chewy; the white ones makes it crispy. If your recipe calls for all white and you want a fudgier result, try swapping out some of the white for brown (go for half and half and adjust from there). You can also use honey or molasses for a chewier result.

Too much sugar

Among all of the recipes and the problems suggested, this problem is the hardest one to fix. If you accidentally poured a lot of sugar in your dough, the secret ingredient to make it better is cayenne. Add lemon and lemon zest in the mixture and balance it with salt. 

While a snickerdoodle may be a pastry recipe, it doesn’t mean that it has to be too sweet. The perfect taste of a snickerdoodle should be a combination of all the ingredients. The sugar should not dominate it.

The flavor did not come out well

Again, we could no longer add any more ingredients to the recipe if the flavor did not turn out great after cooking. Remaking it into other versions of snickerdoodles like snickerdoodle balls or pies will do the trick. It will still be your snickerdoodles even though it’s not a circle-shaped form anymore.

What highlights that kind of pastry recipe is the way it tastes like and its special ingredient which is the cinnamon, you can’t call it one if you don’t have this!

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Facts and Trivia About the Snickerdoodle

Snickerdoodles are said to have originated from Dutch or Germany. It is said to be known as “snail cookies” – which I think are hard to believe since they don’t look like snails.  It came from the word Schneckennudeln, which means ‘snail dumpling’ and then just evolved into Snickerdoodles due to the word being hard to pronounce. 

“While snickerdoodles and sugar cookies share a lot of basic ingredients (flour, sugar, butter), there is one key ingredient that’s critical to the signature snickerdoodle taste: cream of tartar. You might think this sounds like an odd thing to put in your dessert, but it’s the age-old secret to those snickerdoodle pastries you love so much. “There are two things that can be attributed to the cream of tartar in snickerdoodles: the signature “tang,” and the perfect chewiness. These characteristics are due specifically to the chemical makeup of the cream of tartar, which prevents the cookie from developing a sugar-crystal-induced crunch that sugar desserts have, instead giving it a soft and pillowy texture.” - The Huffington Post

One more trivia about it is that since the late 1800s, snickerdoodles are called snip doodles or cinnamon sugar cookies. The scent of this food is one of its prominent assets. When you smelled of that food, this is the one and only thing that will come to your mind-- Snickerdoodle time!

Nutrition Facts

If you are afraid that eating delicious sweet treats made out of sweet recipe like this has a lot of health concerns, well, worry no more! Below are the levels of vitamins and minerals that snickerdoodles contain. 

• Calories: 746kcal Potassium: 194mg
• Carbohydrates: 75g Fiber: 12g
• Protein: 7g Sugar: 26g
• Fat: 50g  Vitamin A: 767IU
• Saturated Fat: 21g  Vitamin C: 1mg
• Cholesterol: 63mg  Calcium: 211mg
• Sodium: 490mg Iron: 2mg

Tips In Making the Best Snickerdoodles

Here are some tips and tricks to make the best snickerdoodle and avoid baking bad ones since we cannot make an entire remedy into it once you make mistakes in cooking it. Mistakes are essential especially in cooking because once you commit it, surely, you won’t forget about it and you will learn from it. 

1. If you want to make your snickerdoodles puffy and soft, make sure that the ratio of butter to leavener to flour and egg are all correct and followed. Don’t use shortening so that the buttery flavor will not disappear. Also, under-baking the sweets will make it softer.
2. Do not over crowd your pan when baking your snickerdoodles. They tend to expand so if you don’t want a flat snickerdoodle, make sure to have enough spaces in between them in the pan before putting them into the oven.
3. If you want to make them without cream of tartar, you can substitute the cream of tartar AND the baking soda with 2 teaspoons of baking powder. BUT, if you're looking for a classic and original recipe, use cream of tartar.

It is so, because: More importantly, cream of tartar is often used to stabilize egg whites or cream while whipping them. It is also often added to baked goods to help activate baking soda. The cream of tartar adds tanginess and chew to the pastry — transforming these from butter-sugar sweets to your favorite dessert.

Perfect baking of the Best Snickerdoodle

The perfect way to bake snickerdoodles is by entrusting them with the oven at the right amount of temperature. They should only be there at a specified period of time to achieve the texture that you want. Usually, the best time allotted for the pastry to bake in the oven is for 11 mins at a medium heat. You don’t want your food to be too soft, too hard, or too flat. 

How to make them soft and chewy

The following are the simple tips on how to make your snickerdoodle soft and at the same time chewy. 

1. Lower bake temperature
2. Extra cinnamon (purists hate this)
3. No chill time (hallelujah!)
4. Brown Sugar
5. An extra egg yolk

We have different preferences when it comes to the style of the food we eat. Some want it to be super solid to the point that it is hard to bite, some want it chewy, some want it soft. We can go on and on about this, but what can we do? The best thing is to cook on our version and follow the steps provided.

Furthermore, the 5 tips mentioned above are the ways to make your pastry, soft and chewy. Take note: Be mindful of the restrictions!

Snickerdoodle is Best Served With

Cookies are often served as desserts or snacks and there are plenty of ways to enjoy Snickerdoodles with some of these foods that can be best paired with them. You can eat this in your breakfast with your favorite hot drink. It is not necessarily made for dessert, it’s always on your call! The flavor just comes good with anything.

1. Hot Chocolate or Coffee – who wouldn’t love enjoying a sugary pastry with a hot cup of cocoa or coffee. It is best to enjoy this pairing as snacks or for breakfast. It does not cost too much to have the right breakfast you deserve.

1. Butter or Cream Cheese – if you love some twist to your sweet pastry you can top it with some butter or cream cheese. The salty taste of butter or cream cheese compliments that sweet taste of the cinnamon sugar together with that soft and crunchy texture.

Conclusion

While the recipe of the snickerdoodle may not be the usual cookie we see at home, in restaurants, at gatherings, and the like, it is the hidden gem that we all should know and make known of. This article is very hopeful to be part of your snickerdoodle journey. Moreover, this page does not only contain the recipes but also the suggestions needed to further improve the pastry dish.

Once you do your own version or create your own recipe, we are sure that you will never look at your baking equipment the way you did before. Furthermore, this delightful dish could be your stepping stone towards your bigger goals in life such as serving this in your business and so on. This page has given you almost everything that you needed to know about this dish. 

Bake for 10 to 11 minutes or until you see little air bubbles form in the middle, rotating once or twice during cooking. They will look underdone, but they are in fact done. They will puff up at first, then flatten out and harden after cooling.

Now that you have cooked the best snickerdoodle successfully with the help of this page, you may serve it with your family and friends. Happy eating! 

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