recipe: snickerdoodles

i love little snickerdoodle cookies. classier than a sugar cookie, but too silly to be fancy. and usually they can be made without having to run to the store for any ingredients, so they're a good lil go-to. i also made these last weekend, and they were delish as per usual. if you follow the recipe to a T, taken from Mrs Sigg's Snickerdoodles recipe on allrecipes.com, you can't go wrong.  

ingredients list: 

• - 1/2 cup butter, softened
• - 1/2 cup shortening
• - 1 & 1/2 cups white sugar
• - 2 eggs
• - 2 tsp vanilla 
• - 2 & 3/4 cups  flour
• - 2 tsp cream of tartar
• - 1 tsp baking soda
• - 1/4 tspn salt
• - 2 tbsp white sugar
• - 2 tsp cinnamon

to make: preheat oven to 400 degrees. cream together butter, shortening, 1 & 1/2 cups sugar, the eggs and vanilla. blend in the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt. shape dough by rounded spoonfuls into balls, about 1 inch big.

mix the 2 tbsp sugar and the cinnamon, then roll balls of dough into the cinna-sugar mixture. place 2 inches apart on parchment-lined baking sheets. bake 8-10 minutes until set but not too hard. remove to wire racks to cool.