Snickerdoodles

One of my favorite cookies is snickerdoodles. I just wish you didn't need to use shortening.

This recipe is from the Food Network:

2 ¾ cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
½ cup shortening
1 stick unsalted butter, softened
1 ½ cups sugar
2 large eggs

3 Tbs sugar
1 Tbs ground cinnamon

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Sift the flour, baking soda and salt.  Beat together the shortening and butter.  Add 1 ½ cups sugar and continue beating until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.  Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.  Add the flour mixture and blend until smooth.

Mix the 3 Tbs sugar with the cinnamon in a small bowl.  Roll the dough, by hand, into balls.  Roll the balls in the cinnamon sugar.  Flatten the balls into ½-inch thick disks, spacing them evenly on unlined cookie sheets.  Bake until light brown, but still moist in the center, about 12 minutes.  Cool on a rack.

Makes 36 large or 55 small cookies.

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