Cinnamon Crisp Cookies from: Cozy Mystery Novel with Recipes
Hannah's note: Lisa loves these cookies-it's the only time I've seen her eat a half-dozen of anything at one sitting.
Ingredients
- 2 cups melted butter (4 sticks)
- 2 cups brown sugar (loosely packed)
- 1 cup white sugar (granulated)
- 2 beaten eggs (just whip them up with a fork)
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cream of tartar (critical!)
- 1 tsp salt
- 4½ cups white flour (not sifted)
Dough-ball rolling mixture
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Melt the butter.
- Add the sugars and mix.
- Let the mixture cool to room temperature while you beat the eggs, and then stir them in.
- Add the vanilla, cinnamon, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt. Mix well.
- Add flour in increments, mixing after each addition.
- [chill dough in refrigerator for up to1 hour]
- Combine the sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl to make the dough-ball rolling mixture. (Mixing it with a fork works nicely.)
- Roll the dough balls in the mixture, then place them on a greased cookie sheet, 12 to a standard sheet.
- Flatten the dough balls with a greased or floured spatula.
- Bake at 325 degrees F. for 10-15 minutes. (They should have a touch of gold around the edges.)
- Cool on the cookie sheet for 2 minutes, then remove the cookies to a rack to finish cooling.
- Yield: Approximately 8 dozen, depending on cookie size.