Caramel Snickerdoodles
Cuisine: Cookies
 
Ingredients
  • 2½ cups all purpose flour
  • 2 tsp cream of tatar
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp kosher salt
  • 2 sticks of butter
  • 1½ cup sugar + ¼ cup for the topping
  • ½ tsp vanilla
  • 2 eggs
  • 1½ Tbs ground cinnamon
  • about 40 pieces of caramel, unwrapped
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 400F
  2. Sift flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt together in a bowl.
  3. In an electric mixer cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  4. Add eggs and vanilla to butter and sugar, and continue mixing.
  5. Slowly add the flour, ⅓ at a time to the mixing bowl, and mix until just incorporated.
  6. Cover with plastic wrap and chill for 30 minutes.
  7. Mix ¼ cup of sugar and cinnamon in a dish.
  8. Form 1 Tbs of dough around a caramel piece and roll into a ball.
  9. Coat with sugar and cinnamon.
  10. Place on a cookie sheet, lined with parchment or a silpat, about 2 inches apart.
  11. Bake 8-10 minutes, until light golden and "set".
  12. Remove from the oven, let sit on the pan for a few minutes before lifting onto a wire cooling rack.
Recipe by The Patchy Lawn at http://thepatchylawn.com/recipes/sweets/caramel-snickerdoodles/