Anyone have a snickerdoodle recipe made WITHOUT cream of tartar??

[LindsayDunn228]

I had a snickerdoodle this weekend and was reminded how much I love them. I have Googled a ton of recipes and have found none that don't have cream of tartar in the recipe. I don't have any and don't want to buy some JUST for this recipe.

Any thoughts or ideas?

 

[Disney_1derland]

Hey Lindsay, Here you go:


Easy Snickerdoodles:
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup or 2 tablespoons sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup or 4 tablespoons flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking power
4 tablespoons of cinnamon
4 tablespoons of sugar

1. Cream the shortening, sugar and egg with electric mixer until smooth.

2. Sift flour, onto a wax paper, about 1 1/2 cup.

3. Measure flour, salt, and baking powder into sifter and sift over a small bowl.

4. Add the sifted ingrediennts into the sugar and shortening and egg mixture and mix well with a wooden spoon.

5. Add vanilla and stir again.

6. Dough should be soft and easy to handle. Add a little more flour (about a tabelspoon or so) if dough sticks to your hands.

7. Preheat oven to 400F. Set out cookies sheets lined with foil 8 combine suger and cinnamon into a small bowl and set out side

9. Roll pieces of dough into the size of a small jawbreaker. Roll the bal inot the sugar cinnamon mixture. Place on a foil line cookie sheet, three across and five down. Place the rack in the middle of the oven.

10. Bake for 8-10 minutes until lightly brown. Cookies will puff up and then will flatten down and have a crispy top.

11. Let the cookies cool on the rack.

 

[Disney_1derland]

And, I forgot to add that I'm just down the road (more than a bit ) and now I'm craving snickerdoodles. Hint. Hint.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Thanks a bunch and would you like coffee, tea, or milk with your cookies?

 

[Disney_1derland]

Thanks a bunch and would you like coffee, tea, or milk with your cookies?

Tea would be lovely I hope they turn out well, I've only used it once but they were good!

 

[Grumpy's Gal]

I had a snickerdoodle this weekend and was reminded how much I love them. I have Googled a ton of recipes and have found none that don't have cream of tartar in the recipe. I don't have any and don't want to buy some JUST for this recipe.

Any thoughts or ideas?

read this - all about substitutions for Cream of Tartar.
http://whatscookingamerica.net/Q-A/CreamTartar.htm

 

[pearlieq]

My understanding was that you could use any sugar cookie dough for snickerdoodles--just add a little cinnamon and roll them in cinnamon sugar as usual.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

My understanding was that you could use any sugar cookie dough for snickerdoodles--just add a little cinnamon and roll them in cinnamon sugar as usual.

Really? The cook in me was wondering this as I was eating the cookie, trying to figure out what was in it. But it just seemed to taste more buttery than a sugar cookie to me. Know what I mean?

 

[Sylvester McBean]

a snickerdoodle without cream of tartar is morally wrong. but I still don't understand what it does for the taste.

 

[disneyfan551]

A little OT here, but... You need some cream of tartar! It isn't just for baking! Trust me, I've grown up knowing that CoT was a MUST in our home! We even take it on trips with us, JIC. Maybe you haven't heard the old wives tale about using a 1/4 t. of CoT for a bladder infection? I can safely say that it works, and QUICKLY! Bladder infections are no fun and I will not be without my Cream of Tartar! I have even turned my dh, and my friend (who had an infection-& taking the dr's meds... and was in severe pain on our arrival day at WDW a few years ago...) into believers!

 

[tkyes]

It won't have that same snickerdoodle taste without the cream of tarter. That's what makes the raw dough taste so bad and the baked cookie taste so good!