July 10, 2019

Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies Old-Fashioned Goes Gourmet

Name: Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies Old-Fashioned Goes Gourmet
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 5 dozen 2" cookies
Ingredients: 1 cup butter; 1 cup white sugar; 1/2 cup brown sugar; 2 eggs; 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour; 2 teaspoon cream of tartar; 1 teaspoon soda; 1/4 teaspoon salt; For the topping mix 1/2 cup white sugar with 2 teaspoon cinnamon in a shallow bowl

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We couldn’t wait to share our Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies recipe with you! They’re crispy, nutty, sugary with a touch of cinnamon. Throughout the years, I’ve made the cookies countless times. This occasion I decided to change just one little thing in the recipe. The old-fashioned cinnamon cookies went from delicious to AH-MAAH-ZING! See if these cookies don’t have you jumping for joy.

Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies on a white plate with a burnt orange napkin on the side.

First Published: November 08,2016… Last Updated: July 10, 2019

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Cinnamon sugar rolled Snickerdoodle cookies are classics
Snickerdoodle Cookies are easy and delicious
Snickerdoodle Cookies became a staple in our house
Snickerdoodles go gourmet
Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe

Cinnamon sugar rolled Snickerdoodle cookies are classics

I remember the first time I saw the Snickerdoodle Cookie recipe in my Betty Crocker Cookbook. For a novice cookie baker, the recipe was easy enough. I couldn’t wait to make them. And once I did, I couldn’t believe how delicious they were.

Our Italian kitchen didn’t have a lot of fancy baking ingredients, but it did have flour, butter, sugar, and cinnamon. I was nervous. I could make bread; this was entirely new. Betty Crocker knew that there were lots of newcomers to cooking and baking, so she made her directions easy enough for a child to follow.

In those days I followed a recipe to the letter and never dreamed of making a Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies recipe.

Betty Crocker Cookbook with the snickerdoodle recipe on the page.

Snickerdoodle Cookies are easy and delicious

When mamma and papà arrived home from work, the aroma of sweet, spicy cinnamon sugar greeted them. They couldn’t believe I made the Snickerdoodle Cookie recipe all by myself. Well, that fluffed my feathers, and that was just the beginning of my culinary journey.

I pored over magazines like Good Housekeeping, McCalls, Lady’s Home Journal searching for recipes, planning on what to cook next.

I simply loved being in the kitchen. Cookbooks were like novels to me. I read them from cover to cover. They took me on cooking adventures.

Snickerdoodle Cookies became a staple in our house

When we were first married, Honey worked while going to school. He took his lunch and each week I made a batch of snickerdoodle cookies. There was never a crumb left in the baggie. It made me happy knowing how much he liked them.

What I didn’t know was, that as much as Honey loved the Snickerdoodle cookies, it was his foreman, Red, that gobbled them up before nine in the morning.

The foreman, who was toothless so I couldn’t say he had a sweet tooth, loved sweets so much that Honey didn’t mind sacrificing the cookies. It didn’t hurt being nice to the boss either.

What would the foreman have done with Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies? :-)Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies ordinary turns extraordinary

Snickerdoodles go gourmet

Today, Honey and I like to play what if. . . Several months ago I made a Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe with brown butter. They tasted heavenly. So I thought, what if I take an ordinary Snickerdoodle recipe and brown the butter in the recipe instead of just creaming it with the sugar?

Let me put it this way; I’ll never go back to merely creaming the butter. Browning the butter is a step that adds a remarkable depth to the cookies. You get a nutty flavor that you wouldn’t get without the brown butter.

If you’re hesitant about the procedure, here is a great site that shows the process with lots of pictures.

Don’t be afraid to experiment; that’s part of the fun.

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Baking without parchment paper in convenient sheets, just like these, would be quite a hassle for us. We buy them by the boxful and they are such a time saver. All you have to do is grab one, put it on a baking tray and then slide the tray into the oven. It makes for easy cleanup.

Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies stacked on a white plate on a wood cutting board and a russet napkin below the plate.

If you love a rich cinnamon cookie with a nutty flavor these cookies will soon be your favorite. The classic sugary cookie is even better when you brown the butter first. Leave in all of the brown bits that form in the pan because that’s what gives these cookies that out-of-this-world flavor.

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