These healthy snickerdoodle cookies are so soft they could be pillows.
Snickerdoodle cookie pillows.
And then we could have a snickerdoodle pillow fight, with sugary cookie dough flying in every direction. Mmm yes, a snickerdoodle pillow fight. How yummy would that be?!
Sweet and buttery pillow cookies…
I promise the snickerdoodles do not taste healthy. But don’t take my word for it; try them for yourself. My friends couldn’t get enough of these!
Skinny Snickerdoodles
- 3/4 cup ww pastry flour or white flour (See below for notes on a gluten-free option)
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt (just under level)
- 1/4 tsp cream of tarter (optional)
- 1/4 tsp plus 1/8 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 cup sugar or sucanat or evaporated cane juice (xylitol might work, but I haven’t tried)
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 and 1/2 tablespoons milk of choice
- 1/4 cup “butter” of choice, such as Earth Balance (I haven’t tried a lower-fat butter sub in this recipe, so I don’t know if that would work.)
Preheat oven to 330 F. Combine dry ingredients and mix very, very well. In a separate bowl, melt the butter of choice, then stir in vanilla and milk. Pour dry into wet and mix again. Form balls. For true snickerdoodles, roll each ball in a mix of cinnamon and sugar (either equal parts OR two parts sugar to one part cinnamon, depending on how cinnamon-y you want your cookies). If you want soft cookies, you’ll need to get the balls very cold. (So roll the balls, cover in the cinnamon-sugar, then fridge until cold.) Cook for 9-10 minutes. They’ll look way underdone when you take them out, but that’s ok.
I haven’t tried these with a gf mix, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. (Edit: if you read the comments, many commenters have successfully tried different gf versions.) In the meantime…
These are gluten-free: Snickerdoodle Blondies.
As for the vegan snickerdoodles: they will keep at least four days, in a lidded plastic container. (As a general rule, you should store soft cookies in plastic containers and crispy cookies in glass ones.)
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Yummmm! Yummmm! …Soft and buttery is going to sell a lot of these at the church bake sale tonight! 🙂
I wonder if these taste like the Snickerdoodle cookies from Enjoy Life! Those are the only snickerdoodle anythings I’ve ever tasted and they were soooo yummy 😀
Katie! I just recently found your site and I LOVE it! I have been making yummy chocolate goodies. I was going to make your deep dish cookie pie today and saw these instead and decided to go for it!
I made both gluten free and gluten versions. Both are so good! I used 1/4 C almond meal, 1/2 C tapioca flour, and 1 tsp Xantham gum for my gluten free ones. I think the gluten free are slightly sweeter but only slightly. They taste pretty similar! Can’t tell they are gluten free. Oh and I also used palm sugar instead of regular sugar in both recipes.
Also, I have been in a food fight before! I think there was chocolate pudding involved…! It was at girls camp and I think we were doing some kind of eating contest out in the field and it just turned into a food fight. It was super fun! And we were outside so not too much to clean up. Can’t say the counselors were too happy with us though. Haha.
Thanks again for your wonderful and AMAZING website!
Oh wow, Amanda, I am so excited you tried a gf version! People so often ask me for gf versions of my recipes, but I’m still learning how to bake gluten-free. I will definitely be pointing people to your comment. Thanks a bunch (of bananas hehe) :).
I made this gluten-free version, and they were pretty gummy. It was my first time baking something gluten-free though. Maybe too much xanthan gum? Or should they have baked longer than 10 minutes?
how many cookies does this recipe make? this would be very helpful
Yummy! I could definitely use a diet cookie. I count calories, and because I’m quite the beer drinker, I go over almost every day. I need diet cookies so I can drink more beer. 🙂
The pictures look absolutely gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And so do your cookies!
Hey Katie! I was wondering about the rule about plastic/glass containers for cookies. Why is that?
LOL I really don’t know! But from my experience, it seems to work.
Snickerdoodles are my second favorite cookie…nothing can beat a cookie with chocolate in it! 😉
i may just be tired or something but not sure I get why you called them skinny if they are not diet cookies? they seem pretty ordinary ingredients to me. tasty looking of course!
For the amount of flour, they have much less sugar and less added fat than traditional snickerdoodles.
Did you adapt these from a higher-fat, higher-sugar recipe? I would love to see the original and how you did it!
Yum! I already made these and was too impatient to wait for the balls to completely chill before cooking so they got a little crispy. Still delicious and so easy to make! I will definitely try again and next time follow the instructions. 🙂 Thanks for sharing this recipe!
Haha I was impatient too… so I put mine in the freezer. (But not before taking off a chunk of the raw dough to eat while I waited!)
These look so soft and fluffy! Can’t wait to try them.