Snickerdoodles!

Despite all good intentions to cook something delicious and post about it during the last two days, for one reason or another (namely a lack of groceries for a few days and then one really crazy, long, and stressful night where we grabbed food while out because we were starving) my kitchen has encountered a shocking lack of cooking.  While I'll be cooking veggie sloppy joes tonight, I can't very well have sloppy joes as my first food post.  (No matter how many veggies I throw in, it's still sloppy joes).

So, while I haven't baked snickerdoodles today, I need to post something so that sloppy joes can be number two, rather than number one.

Snickerdoodles:

1/2 C margarine or butter

1/2 C sugar

1/3 C brown sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

1 1/2 C flour

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp cream of tartar

Cream butter and sugars well.  Add egg and vanilla and beat until smooth.  Add dry ingredients (as with all cookie recipes, do not over-beat once you've added the dry ingredients.  Beat the butter/sugar and the eggs all you want, but be careful once the dry ingredients are in - lessons learned while working at a bakery during college)

Dough will be sticky.  Let it sit in the refrigerator for 30-60 min and it will get less sticky.  Roll in cinnamon sugar mixture (there's no real science to cinnamon sugar, just whatever your preference is), slightly flatten on to ungreased cookie sheet, and bake at 300 for 12-14 min.  Cookies should be soft.  They will continue to cook after you remove them from the oven.  Soft and Delicious!

Original recipe from Mom.  Thanks!