This week Spike, of Spike Bakes, chose Snickerdoodles for the SMS crew. I always love it when a cookie recipe is chosen for one of my baking groups. As much as I love cookies, aside from the month of December or personal requests, I very rarely bake cookies on a whim. They're much too tempting to me, and before I know it, I've eaten ten or more.I baked snickerdoodles one time before, when I was about 10 years old at a friend's house. It was her mother's birthday, and she and her sister were trying to make an angel food cake for her -- what a disaster! We weren't allowed to use an electric mixer, so her sister sat there beating the egg whites for what seemed like hours, while we measured out the dry ingredients. When we were combining the flour and sugar with the egg whites, it didn't look like any cake batter we'd ever seen, so we added a little bit of water and milk to thin it out! The cake came out of the oven looking nothing at all like an angel food cake should, so we made snickerdoodles from a recipe in a kid's cookbook, too. That's what happens when you leave two 10 year-olds and an 11 year-old in the kitchen for the afternoon. I wasn't there for the birthday celebration, but I remember asking my friend how the desserts turned out. I remember her giggling and telling me that the cookies were great, but that the cake was just awful!
If three silly girls can make snickerdoodles, it has to be a pretty easy recipe. Melissa's snickerdoodle recipe is no exception. I made the dough for the cookies in about 10 minutes before work, and I baked them the next day. The most labor intensive part of the cookie process is rolling the dough into balls. The cookies are buttery and cinnamon-sugary goodness! Thanks to Spike for choosing such a great recipe this week! You can visit her blog for the recipe.
14 comments:
your cookies look fantastic! they are picture perfect :)
That's a great memory! I make cookies all the time but somehow, I've never made snickerdoodles. They've always sounded so appealing, though...and it's great to know that they're so easy!
Your cookies look terrific Jess! Great story - I love that you guys added water and milk to thin out the angel food cake batter. I'm pretty sure when I was a kid the only baking I did was from a box :)
I love food related memories! Thanks for sharing that story! i agree with you on that these cookies are sooo tempting. I had a bad weekend of eating too many sweets. It's been really cool here so I have felt the urge to bake even more then usual! My kitchen was a full of cookies and bars, Im taking them all away to church this morning!
What a sweet story! When I was six, my friend and I tried to make a father's day cake for her dad. He didn't eat sugar, and we had no recipe, but we were determined. We mixed together flour, molasses and lemon juice, poured it in a pan and baked it. It was a gurgling gooey mess, but her dad was such a good sport and tasted it anyway, ugh. There is a photo of us in the kitchen that morning, all of our ingredients strewn everywhere, wearing nothing but aprons... So fun to experiment in the kitchen as a kid.
Your sniickerdoodles look delicious, and I'm glad you enjoyed them. We thought they were really yummy, too.
Glad you like the cookies. A great recipe to make as kids or adults!
I love snickerdoogles and never think to make them. But these look great.
Thanks for coming by.
Your cookies look awesome!
Cute story! Your snickerdoodles look great, definitely a tempting treat to have around.
Hi Jessica!
What an adorable story about the angel food cake! I'm glad you three decided on baking the snickerdoodles as a back-up- good plan! It's nice that this recipe brought back childhood memories for you, too.
Thanks so much for your interest in Operation Baking GALS. Here's the link to our site, so you can take a look around and see what you think: http://www.bakinggals.com/ If you scroll down a bit you'll see an article I wrote about my special team that bakes for the hospitalized soldiers, Team Oven Loving for the Recovery. We just finished up round 11, but round 12 baking is just around the corner (beginning of next month) and I'd love to have you bake with us. If you think you might be available, just send me an email (joy.d.saunders@gmail.com) and I'll walk you through the whole process! And if you can't do round 12 but might like to participate in the future, I can send you a list of upcoming dates when we'll be shipping so you can mark your calendar and plan ahead. Oh, and with my team, you don't have to worry about overseas shipping... our packages go to Bethesda, MD!
Hope to talk to you again soon!
-Joy
Your snickerdoodles look perfect! YUM.
Your cookies are perfect! I loved this recipe - it was so easy and quick! :)
What a lovely memory!! :) Your cookies look so great!!! I love that background you used too!!
How funny- I think I was about ten years old the last time I made them too! I can't imagine making an angel food cake without a mixer!!
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