Recipe #4: Snickerdoodles & Recipe #4.5: Lemon Snickerdoodles

The Snacks chapter in my mother’s cookbook contains MANY baked goods.  Cookies, bars, cakes, scones...lots and lots of baked goods.  The basic cookies seemed best to start with - so after the delicious Chocolate Chip cookies, I decided on a batch of Snickerdoodles.

Ingredients!

My mom had two options for this cookie, regular and lemon.  I split the batch in half and made some of each.  One of the things I discovered with this recipe (along with reading other recipes in the book), is there are a few kitchen utensils my mother uses that I do not have access to.  This recipe called for a lemon zester; and while I have copious amounts of kitchen items, a lemon zester is not among them.

Alas, I improvised with a vegetable peeler and a knife.  Seemed to work just fine.

The first pan of cookies was on a rack too close to the bottom heating element in the oven and got a little burnt on the bottom.  But the rest of the batch worked out just fine.  Even though I discovered I’m not a huge snickerdoodle fan, my roommate made sure to tell me that the cookies were “really good, even frozen.”

Finished Product: Lemon on the Left and Regular on the Right.