Andy's Snickerdoodles (Sugar Cookie Base)

Andy’s Snickerdoodles

Ingredients:

2 sticks of butter (just add a little extra salt later if it's unsalted butter)

1.5 c sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

a little less than 2.5 cups of flour

1 tsp. baking soda

¼ tsp. salt

1. Preheat the oven to 330 degrees

1. Cream the butter and sugar until fluffy

2. Mix in the eggs and vanilla

3. Then add in the flour, baking soda and salt

4. Make 3/4 inch balls out of the dough and roll those balls in cinnamon sugar (2 parts sugar 1 part cinnamon) and put them on the cookie sheet just slightly flattened, spaced out .5-1” between each cookie.

5. Chilling the dough will make forming the balls and rolling them in cinnamon sugar is made a lot easier

6. Cook for 7-9 minutes, but basically just watch until the dough spreads out and starts rising. As soon as the dough has hit the peak of rising and starts to fall back down is when I pull them out.

Variations: Lemonade sugar cookies (Karen Barker), Plain sugar cookies