This easy snickerdoodles recipe is a tasty treat that everyone loves! You’ll also find instructions to make a jar mix that’s perfect for gift giving!
Snickerdoodle cookies are a classic sugar cookie style cookie that everyone loves! They are not as sweet as sugar cookies but have a nice buttery cinnamon flavor. Snickerdoodle cookies can range from crispy to soft. Our easy snickerdoodles recipe is on the softer side, with just a slight delicate crunch to make them perfect!
I don’t know many people who don’t just love snickerdoodles! My kids can eat an entire batch in one sitting… If there are any left by the time they get home from school!
If you want, you can make several batches of snickerdoodle cookies and keep them in the cupboard in a cookie jar so you can have fresh snickerdoodles any time! This easy snickerdoodles recipe makes a snack that’s great for keeping on hand for after school snacks. Keep some on hand and you won’t always have to come up with something new for the kids before they go out to play.
Snickerdoodles as a Jar Mix Gift
This easy snickerdoodles recipe is designed as a jar mix perfect for gift giving. Our recipe below includes instructions for making the cookies right away and also instructions for making the jar mix to give as a gift.
If you are gift-giving, save pretty jars or mason jars to put the mix in. Put a pretty ribbon around the top and you have a quick and easy gift! These jar mixes are also perfect when included in homemade gift baskets!
Easy Homemade Snickerdoodles Recipe And Jar Mix
This easy snickerdoodles recipe makes delicious buttery snickerdoodle cookies! With the texture of sugar cookies and a slight cinnamon flavor, these cookies are a tasty treat that everyone loves! You’ll also find instructions to make a jar mix that’s perfect for gift giving!
- Yield: 5 dozen small cookies
Ingredients
Dry Mix
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. cream of tartar
1 1/2 cups sugar
Ingredients To Prepare The Mix
1 cup shortening or butter
2 eggs
1 jar Snickerdoodle Jar Mix
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine the snickerdoodle dry mix ingredients.
- Mix well.
- If you are making the recipe as a jar mix, store the mix in an airtight container and attach the preparation instructions below.
- If you want to make the cookies now, preheat the oven to 400°.
- In a large bowl, cream the butter with a mixer until light.
- Add the eggs and beat on low speed until the mixture is smooth.
- Add the Snickerdoodle Mix.
- Continue to beat on low speed until the dough begins to form.
- Combine the sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl.
- Shape the dough into quarter sized balls.
- Roll the dough balls in the cinnamon and sugar blend.
- Arrange on ungreased baking sheets 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes or until light brown.
- Cool on wire racks.
To Make The Snickerdoodle Cookies:
Notes
- When you make this easy snickerdoodle cookies recipe as a jar mix, you can decorate the jar with pretty ribbons, stickers or anything you like to make it a special gift for the recipient.
- This Snickerdoodles recipe jar mix is a wonderful addition to a homemade gift basket for any occasion, but especially for holidays and birthdays!
This easy snickerdoodles recipe is from Volume 1 of our cookbook:
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Where do I find a jar of Snickerdoodle?
I don’t know but this recipe is to make your own.
Snickerdoodle is just a type of cookie Mary. You can find bags of the for sale in with the cookies.
I think the recipe is referring to a jar of the homemade snickerdoodle cookie mix.
Mary: The recipe for the jar mix is the first thing, the dry ingredients
“Easy homemade Snikerdoodles recipe and jar mix”
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. cream of tartar
1 1/2 cups sugar
In a large bowl, combine the ingredients and mix well. Store the mix in an airtight container. Makes 1 batch.
Attach this note to the jar:
and then is the rest of the recipe…, that you also can put in the note on the jar. Just read with attention. I think Tawra and Ms. Jill didn’t understand your confusion.
Why buy one when it is so easy to make?
Oh, snickerdoodles are one of my favorite cookies! This is a great idea to give as gifts for Christmas. I love giving (and receiving) practical gifts as opposed to “dust collectors”. Thanks for sharing this!!
How much cinnamon am I supposed to add? It doesn’t give an exact amount. And I just love reading your blog and watching your Youtube videos. Please continue to do these because you help and inspire a lot of people. Thank you.
Thank you Nicole so much. For the cinnamon it says down below on “the label to attach” to mix 2 Tbsp of sugar and 2 tsp. cinnamon although you can adjust that to your own personal taste (more or less cinnamon).
Jill, which is your preference, using shortening or butter? We prefer a chewier cookie rather than a soft one. Thx!
Debi it really is your preference and how you like them but I find that for most of my cookies shortening or margarine works best especially because many the recipes are much older (1950 and earlier) and at the time most people used lard (like shortening) or margarine when these recipes first were “invented” of sorts. I find they turn out more like the recipe was intended to be when first written. But that is one thing about making your own you can do them how ever you like. Everyone’s tastes are different and nothing wrong with that.
These are AWESOME!
Note: at high altitude, reduce baking soda to 1/2 tsp.
Terrific idea! Thank you for sharing, realize your schedule is ever so bz. Enjoy your videos – time consuming yet your Mom & you are ever so caring – Blessings from the Father, Respectfully gloria
PS only change I’d make is I’ll use stevia, attempting to keep sugar out of my life, Keep Smilin 😉
Thank you Gloria so much – will pass you message on to Tawra. : )
Thank you so much for your recipes and your live YouTube shows! I really enjoy listening to both of you.
You are so welcome and thank you for letting us know. : )
You said your snickerdoodles recipe is on the softer side.
What adjustments to the recipe would you make to make them crispy?
You could flatten them a little and bake them just a little longer
This is the one recipe that got my husband to marry me. :) He kept telling me that, “Granny made the best snickerdoodles”. So then I found your channel and bought the cookbook. He was so happy when he first tasted them. “Just like Granny’s”, he said. Granny is gone and I can’t get her recipe. You ladies helped me! Thank you for all you do. Thanks for this recipe.
If I ever go into counseling I will be sure to tell the young ladies who are dying to get married to use this recipe LOL!!! This recipe was my grandma’s recipe too so it is really quite old since she was born in 1899. : ) So glad we could help. : )
Thanks for sharing the Snickerdoodle recipe. I have been wanting to make this for awhile and couldn’t find my recipe. I will be making these tomorrow😊I love the idea of giving it in a jar as a gift thanks for sharing all that info too. Last year for Christmas I gave some of my canned foods to my young adult grandkids they were so excited to get them and the fact that they got their favorite foods & I knew what they liked impressed them! Big hit! This recipe will be in a jar for all of them along with canned and dehydrated foods.yay!!!!❤️❤️❤️
Great gift idea Denise. I know the gifts I loved the most from our grandparents was my husband’s grandma’s wild plum jelly and things like crochet pillowcases she made when she first got married. I treasured those things so much. I think we live in a world where we believe our kids and grandkids want only things lots of money can buy and don’t realize what we are depriving them of so thanks for the reminder to everyone.