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Valentine's Snickerdoodle Cookies

Classic snickerdoodle cookies with a Valentine's Day spin!

These cookies are rolled in a cinnamon-sugar mixture and red sanding sugar.

Classic Snickerdoodle Flavor

Snickerdoodles have the warm and comforting flavors of cinnamon. Making snickerdoodles is popular during the winter months and adding red, white, and pink sprinkles and red sanding sugar makes them festive enough for a Valentine's Day gift.

Classic snickerdoodles stacked with red sanding sugar.

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Valentine's Snickerdoodle Cookies

These cookies are made just like the traditional snickerdoodle cookie. With the subtle cinnamon flavor throughout the cookies and the soft and chewy texture, these cookies say, "I Love You" and says, "I'm baked with love." They're also incredibly easy to and makes about 3 dozen cookies! It's a great cookie to make a lot of and share with loved ones and friends!

Valentine's Snickerdoodle Cookies in a gift box and spread across the table.

Great Cookie Gifts

These Valentine's Snickerdoodle Cookies are so easy to make and they're easy to get the cookies in a uniform shape and look. It's as simple as pinching off a 1-inch piece of cookie dough, rolling it into a ball and then rolling it into the sugar mixture.

Snickerdoodle cookies with red sprinkles on black cooling rack.

For easy cleanup, I use silicone baking mats. It makes it a breeze to clean up the loose sugar and sprinkle granules.

To spruce the cookies up furthermore, sprinkle additional sanding sugar on top of them.

📖 Recipe

Yield: 38 cookies

Valentine's Snickerdoodle Cookies

Valentine's Snickerdoodle Cookies

Classic snickerdoodle cookies with a Valentine's Day spin! These cookies are rolled in a cinnamon-sugar mixture and red sanding sugar.

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 9 minutes
Total Time 19 minutes

Ingredients

  • ½ cup unsalted butter, softened
  • ½ cup shortening
  • 1 ½ cup granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 teaspoon cream of tartar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 2 ¾ cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ cup red, white, pink sprinkles

Cinnamon Sugar Mixture

  • 3 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 4 tablespoon granulated sugar
  • 3 tablespoon red sanding sugar
  • ½ cup unsalted butter, softened

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°
  2. Combine the softened butter and the shortening. Beat together well.
  3. Beat in the granulated sugar and eggs.
  4. Sift together flour, cinnamon, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt.
  5. Beat the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.
  6. In a separate bowl, mix together the granulated sugar, cinnamon, and red sanding sugar.
  7. Pinch and roll the dough into 1-inch pieces and roll into the cinnamon mixture.
  8. Place the rolled cookies onto an ungreased cookie sheet and bake for about 9 minutes.
  9. The edges should be brown and the center should be soft.
  10. Sprinkle with additional cinnamon-sugar mixture if desired.

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Nutrition Information:

Yield:

38

Serving Size:

1 cookie

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 83Total Fat: 5.2gSaturated Fat: 2.5gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 6mgSodium: 48mgCarbohydrates: 9.9gFiber: 0.1gSugar: 9.6g

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Rebecca Van Houten

Wednesday 14th of February 2024

I was curious about the butter in the sugar mixture that you roll the dough balls in. Is this right or a miss print.

Araceli

Monday 7th of February 2022

How many cups of flour?

Dana

Wednesday 9th of February 2022

Oh no! I'm not sure where the flour disappeared to. I have updated the recipe to share the flour amounts. :)

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