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Best Snickerdoodle recipe

5 from 2 votes
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Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 cup butter softened
  • 1/2 cup shortening butter-flavored works best
  • 1 1/2 cups white sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons white vinegar or lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 3 tablespoons white sugar
  • 1 tablespoon cinnamon

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
  • Cream butter, shortening, 1 1/2 cups sugar, eggs and vanilla together. Add in the flour, lemon juice/vinegar, soda and salt.
  • Let dough chill in the freezer for about 30 minutes.
  • Use a cookie scoop or rounded teaspoons and shape dough into balls.
  • Mix the 3 tablespoons sugar and the cinnamon. Roll balls of dough in the cinnamon-sugar. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.
  • Bake 8 minutes, or until cracks are formed but dough still looks a little bubbly. Remove immediately from oven and let cool on baking sheets for about a minute before transferring to a wire rack.