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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Love the pics! These sound amazing!
snickerdoodles are my FAVORITE 🙂
Thanks, Katie! I’m so glad you posted this! I’ve been craving soft, cinnamony snickerdoodles. You’ve made all my dreams come true! I’m thinking this may even be a nice recipe for a fruit pizza cookie crust if I omit the cinnamon. But wait…omit cinnamon? Who am I kidding? Blasphemy!
I loved the cookies, I’ll definitely be cooking them sometime soon 🙂 By the way, don’t you get bored of having to justify yourself? I mean, you are very free to cook whatever you want!
Yes. Oh my word, yes. I reaally didn’t even want to write that into my post, and I debated it over and over. But I finally left it in because I also didn’t want to have to answer any more of the questions left every single day :(.
Those look great! I’ve never actually had a snickerdoodle
I’m very torn…if you’re going to bother with a food fight there should definitely be chocolate involved…however, I couldn’t bear wasting chocolate…so I probably won’t be having a food fight any time soon.
Why do you have to call these “skinny snickerdoodles”? Don’t you think that is a little insensitive considering a lot of your readers have had struggles with disordered eating?
Hi Hannah,
I really don’t think it’s insensitive. There is absolutely no way I can know what will upset each individual person who reads my blog. It’s up to each person to be responsible for herself. Also, there are skinny names EVERYwhere– and fat names too! Near my parents’ house, there’s a restaurant called “Fat Daddys!” And there are skinnygirl margaritas, etc. It’s just a name, and no one is going to develop an eating disorder because of my snickerdoodles. But as I said, there’s no way I can know what might trigger a person–because everyone is different. So it is up to each person to take responsibility for his/herself and stay away from things that might be triggering to that individual.
Thank you for responding, Katie. I never said that your snickerdoodles could cause eating disorders (I kind of laugh thinking about the absurd idea), but just because “skinny” and “fat” are used in restaurant names and brand names, that doesn’t make it okay. We need to remember how these words came up into our culture in the first place. Bethanny Frankel has made millions off of her “Naturally Thin” and “Skinnygirl Margaritas”, but in my opinion at least, that is a reflection of our collective disordered relationship with food. You are right, though, you can’t know what will trigger people and what won’t. We all do need to take personal responsibility, but for some that is extremely difficult when reading, obsessing, and thinking about food is an addiction. So, rather, perhaps it is a mix of personal responsibility/effort and awareness but also responsibility of the media, which you are a part of, having a public blog with thousands of young and impressionable readers. To me, it is not a “one or the other” type of issue.
Oh I definitely agree that the media has a responsibility. Sorry if I made it seem like I didn’t. I try very hard to send a good message to my readers, and people actually often write to me and say that thanks to my blog they’ve been able to get over a fear of fat or the idea that they don’t deserve to eat desserts or enjoy food. You’ll always find me touting the benefits of including healthy fats and carbs and REAL ingredients over low-cal ones. A large portion of my readers are trying to lose weight (to be healthy, not as part of an eating disorder), and so I try to keep them in mind when I write my recipes and give variations. But perhaps I have been focusing TOO MUCH on this one group and not enough on the other portion of my audience who wants to eat healthily but NOT lose weight? Thanks for pointing this out to me; I think I need to write a post about ways to maintain or even gain weight on a healthy diet. And also, I don’t actually believe it’s healthy to eat healthy all the time (if that makes sense). So I’ll also work on a post about my own personal diet and how I do sometimes eat things like white flour, sugar, etc. I don’t want to mislead anyone.
Why is everyone so sensitive these days?? I get a headache reading all these ‘politically correct’ comments on this otherwise FANTASTIC blog. I should probably just start ignoring them…but it’s getting out of hand. Katie isn’t the ‘anorexia police’, nor is she responsible for a fat person who cannot control their own eating habits and decisions. She’s a blogger, a recipe developer, NOT a therapist. Jeezus tap-dancing Christ…
Where is the “like” button for comments?? Well said Trish!! Katie is far from the first person to use the adjective “skinny” to describe a recipe that is lower in calorie content than the regular version.
Katie, I LOVE your blog, not only for the great recipes, but also because your wit and bubbly personality show through in your writing. Please do not think that you have to conform to some politically correct standards so as not to offend anyone, or you will completely stifle your innate “Katieness”.
Aw thanks, Dottie 🙂
You got me Katie, I am never really a Snickerdoodle type, (need chocolate always in my cookies!) but I would and WILL try these the second I can.
THANK YOU LADY!
Great pisc too 😉
You should make chocolate date pudding in your vitamix (I just broke both blender blades in my lame bella cucina trying to do this–argh–now I know the true value of saving money for buying REAL kitchen equipment)…All you do is take a bunch of deglet noor dates, fill up your blender with them (make sure there’s no pits), fill it up with water to an inch under the top of the dates, add some tablespoons of cocoa powder, cinnamon, vanilla and blend…it’s amazing and it’s healthy yet tastes better than jello brand.
I am SO aggravated with my blender right now…or…lack of one thereof…
I love cinnamon baked goods…but surprisingly I have never had a snickerdoodle!!!! I guess I don’t have an excuse to try them now LOL!