Someone's in the kitchen with Dinaaaaaaahhhhhhhh...

Since the last recipe I posted was so popular (I assume you all tried it and nobody got food poisoning or died so you all must have loved it. Don’t destroy my fantasy - thank you.), I thought I’d go ahead and share another. Trust me, these are good. Don’t worry about ‘trick’ recipes until we get to the “Mean Peanut Brittle” made with nuts and bolts and sold by young blind children to help pay for a seeing-eye dog.

Snickerdoodles

½ cup butter, softened
½ cup shortening
1½ cups white sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
2¾ cups all purpose flour
2 tsp cream of tarter
1 tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt

2 Tbsp white sugar
2 Tbsp ground cinnamon

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. In large bowl, cream together the butter, shortening, 1½ cups sugar, eggs and vanilla. Blend in the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt.
3. Mix the 2 Tbsp white sugar and ground cinnamon together in a small dish.
4. Shape the dough by rounded spoonfuls into balls. Roll balls of dough in the cinnamon/sugar mixture. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
5. Bake for 8-10 minutes until set but not too hard. Remove immediately from baking sheets to cool completely.

Makes 4 dozen.