Christmas eve is a strange day, and kids especially are over excited and bored. A bit of Christmas baking keeps them occupied. Even if you don’t have kids, it’s a nice way to get into the Christmas spirit, and your house will smell fabulous.
Many years ago I lived in Germany, where I was introduced to the crack cocaine of all Christmas baking, the snickerdoodle.
These are soft, chewy, buttery little cookies that are rolled in sugar and cinnamon before going to the oven. While in the oven the sugar and cinnamon melts and crisp up around the already delicious cookie.
I sincerely apologise in advance for any weight gained as a result of these cookies. I know there is a lot of butter and sugar, but it is Christmas after all ( these are delicious at any time of year though, and work really well as a base for a scoop of vanilla ice cream too)
Please do try them though, they smell absolutely heavenly, and you can always off load the extras (as if), on friends and family. These live very happily in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
Ingredients
For the cookies
370 Grams Plain flour
2 Tsp Baking powder
230 Grams Butter
1/2 Tsp Salt
300 Grams Caster Sugar
2 Eggs
For the coating
50 Grams Caster sugar
1 Tbsp Ground cinnamon
Method
- Add the flour, salt and baking powder to a bowl
- In a separate bowl beat the softened butter, and sugar for 2 minutes or until light and sluff
- Add the eggs one at a time, and the vanilla, then add the flour mix gradually.
- When all the ingredients have been thoroughly combined, chill in the fridge for an hour to allow the dough to firm up
- After an hour take mix out of the fridge, and mix the sugar and cinnamon for the coating together in a small bowl
- Make small balls of cookie dough about the size of a walnut. Roll in the sugar mix
- Place the balls if cookie dough on baking parchment on a cookie sheet for 8-10 minutes in an oven preheated to 200 degrees. Make sure to give them plenty of room to spread od else they stick together
- Remove from the oven and allow to sit on the baking sheet for another 10 minutes
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