Brown Butter Snickerdoodles
- FOR THE COOKIES:
- 1/2 cups Cold Butter
- 3/4 cups Granulated Sugar
- 3/4 cups Brown Sugar
- 1/2 cups Shortening
- 2 whole Eggs
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoons Cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/2 teaspoons Sea Salt
- 2 teaspoons Cream Of Tartar
- 2-3/4 cups All-purpose Flour
- FOR THE CINNAMON SUGAR COATING:
- 3 Tablespoons Granulated Sugar
- 1 Tablespoon Cinnamon
- Melt 6 tablespoons of butter in a small saucepan over medium heat, swirling or stirring pan as needed until butter becomes brown and nutty smelling. Remove pan from heat and allow to cool for 5 minutes.
- Place browned butter into a mixing bowl and add remaining 2 tablespoons cold butter. Mix on low until butter is melted or becomes creamy.
- Add both sugars, mix to combine and then mix in the shortening. Beat on medium speed until light and fluffy. Scrape sides of bowl as needed.
- Add eggs one at a time, beating until fully combined and scraping bowl as needed.
- Add vanilla, cinnamon, baking soda, sea salt and cream of tartar. Beat on medium until combined.
- Add all of the flour and mix on low until combined. Scrape bowl as needed.
- Place dough into the refrigerator for at least 10 minutes while preheating oven.
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Combine granulated sugar and cinnamon in a shallow bowl, for the coating.
- Scoop cookie dough using a cookie scoop or a generous 1 tablespoon. Roll cookies in cinnamon sugar coating and place them 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet. Use a flat bottom glass to gently push on cookies to make them flat and round. If cookies stick to the bottom of the glass dip glass into cinnamon sugar mixture.
- Bake cookies for 12 minutes. Remove from oven and cool 2 minutes before removing cookies from the pan to a cooling rack.
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Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/desserts/brown-butter-snickerdoodles/ (may not work)