Desserts · Cookies

Snickerdoodles

Name: Snickerdoodles
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 11 min
Total time: 31 min
Yield: 24 servings
Ingredients: 3/4 cup butter, softened; 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar; 2 egg; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour; 3/4 tsp baking soda; 1/2 tsp salt; 4 tsp ground cinnamon, for rolling; 1/4 cup granulated sugar, for rolling

The cinnamon-sugar cookie with the tangy chew: cream of tartar is what makes a snickerdoodle instead of a sugar cookie. Soft middles, crackled tops.

Time: 31 min (20 prep + 11 cook)
Servings: 24
Per serving: 154 kcal
Protein: 2 g

Ingredients

3/4 cup butter, softened170 g
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar250 g
2 egg100 g
1 tsp vanilla extract5 g
2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour320 g
3/4 tsp baking soda3 g
1/2 tsp salt3 g

Coating

4 tsp ground cinnamon, for rolling8 g
1/4 cup granulated sugar, for rolling50 g

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Steps

Cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, then beat in the eggs and vanilla.
Fold in the flour, baking soda and salt — plus 1 1/2 tsp cream of tartar if you have it; that acid is the classic snickerdoodle tang.
Roll 24 balls, roll each in the cinnamon sugar, and space them well on trays.
Bake at 175°C for 9–11 minutes until the edges are set and the middles still look underdone. They finish on the tray — that's the soft centre.

Why this score

engineered against fullness

Concentrated sugar, with little protein or fiber to slow it down; dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

6% of kcal

0% water

3 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

47%

43%

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 3702 kcal goes into the pot, 909 g of ingredients comes out as ~720 g of food → 514 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 514
Protein: (6%); 8 g
Fat: (37%); 21 g
Carbohydrates: (57%); 75 g
of which sugar: 42 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sodium: 448 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.