Snickerdoodle Cupcakes & Cookies

I am not sure what all of your new years resolutions are, but I hope they don’t involve cutting out sweets because I have so many delicious sweet recipes to post in the next couple of weeks! If you are taking the bold step and trying to cut out sweets, I will have plenty of healthier recipes coming up too, so you are safe but I would still encourage you to try to the sweets!

This semester I promised my photography professor that I would bake him something and I was told by his roommate that he loved snickerdoodles. So, natually, I wanted to make him something a little bit more unique than just your average cookie; I decided to go with a snickerdoodle cupcake instead! The little cookies were great when dipped through the frosting and the cupcakes were so addicting! I wish I could have posted this recipe before Christmas, but there is still time to make these for New Years! Click on this Stuffed Cookie Dough Cupcake post for the frosting recipe.

If you need a snickerdoodle recipe as well here is one that makes deliciously soft snickerdoodles from Food.com:

Snickerdoodle Cookies
Yields 12 regular or 24 mini cookies

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 tsp cream of tartar
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/8 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 tbsp sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350F.
2. Mix butter, 3/4 cup sugar and eggs in a large bowl until well combined.
3. Combine the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt in anther bowl.
4. Blend the dry ingredients into the butter mixture until dough forms.
5. Chill the dough in a refrigerator (about 15 minutes).
6. In another small bowl, combine the remaining sugar and cinnamon.
7. Roll the dough into desired size and roll in the cinnamon sugar until covered (remember to make miniature cookies, about 1/2″ dough balls if you are using them for the cupcakes).
8. Place on a cookie sheet and bake 10 minutes (no more or you will have rocks for cookies!)
9. Remove from the tray and let cool on counter.

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