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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I loved these! They were so buttery and delicious! The only thing that i’ll say is that I was a little confused about the size of the recipe. You said it made 20-26 cookies, and I got like 15 ones the size of quarters. I have no issue with his since my roomie and I arent huge sweets eaters, so it actually worked well, but for someone who is thinking that they’ll get 26 to bring to a bake sale or something, I would double the recipe.
Hmmm… so weird! I got 26 and they were bigger than quarters! I’m not sure what could’ve happened… I guess I’ll have to make another batch to see! Maybe I accidentally doubled the recipe or got confused with another recipe? I make so many recipes at once lol. In the meantime, I took off the serving size.
I definitely think you doubled the recipe. I just made this recipe now and doubled it, and I came out with exactly 26 cookies (slightly larger than quarter-sized).
Hi Katie!
I made these snickerdoodle cookies last night for a party, and they were a HUGE hit! No one could believe they were vegan and healthy! They are my new FAVORITE cookie recipe, and I can see myself making them every day for years and years. Is that bad? 😉
Also, I was wondering something completely unrelated. Have you heard of the forum out there that is writing horrible things about all the big bloggers? It’s obvious that they’re doing it out of jealousy, because the big bloggers are the only ones they’re talking about. I found it when they mentioned my blog once, but luckily my blog was so small that they quickly forgot it! Anyway, I was wondering your thoughts because if you did see it, I wanted to let you know that they’re just a bunch of sad, pathetic losers who spend all day online and you shouldn’t bother to listen to what they’re saying. I also wanted to let you know they’re taking pictures off your facebook page, so you might want to unfriend a few people.
To prove how pathetic they are, they’re now saying they don’t think you’re a real person!
I guess they think you are too good to be true ;).
Yeah, I think I know the site you are talking about. I clicked on it the first time it showed up in my stats page, but it was just a bunch of girls talking about how skinny I was. Nothing I haven’t heard before, so I got bored and left. I did go back once again, out of curiosity one day when I was getting a lot of visitors from the site. But once again, it was the same old stuff anonymous commenters usually say about me. So now when their link pops up in my stats page, I don’t even bother to go look at it anymore.
It’s freedom of speech, and they can say what they want. I don’t really care because I don’t read the site. But thanks for letting me know that someone’s been posting my facebook pictures. I just unfriended the only person I think it could be… I was pretty sad about that; I had thought she was a sweet person. I guess she didn’t think the same about me :(. What confuses me is why these people HATE me. I mean, I don’t hate any of them, and I don’t think I’ve ever done anything to them… I certainly never intentionally hurt another blogger or reader. But it’s their right to hate whomever they want.
I haven’t had a pillow fight in AGES! I’m totally down with having a snickerdoodle, sugar laden pillow extravaganza!!
Thank you so much Katie! My little one will enjoy these during our travels this weekend (to Kentucky!) while the big-kids get to eat the kind she can’t have….food allergies stink but we look for compromises and this is certainly a good compromise!
My daughter is going to be thrilled that you posted this. I’m going to make them and pack them with her lunch. She loves snickerdoodles.
This morning I was checking facebook and one of my friends had posted that she discovered your blog through Pineterest (I’ve never checked it out), she also posted a link. I had to tell her I have been reading you forever and we love every recipe we have ever made. I didn’t know where to tell her to begin though! I think she should start with the Ultimate Chocolate Fudge Pie…
Ooh yes, definitely! That’s one of my favorite recipes… maybe because it has chocolate? ;).
Katie- Our 4 year old little girl is allergic to eggs and wheat. I’m always worried about her sugar intake b/c I tend to let her enjoy some things more than most kids do (like chocolate..whenever possible!:)) because I always feel bad that there are so many things she has to live without. I’m so grateful for your blogs/recipes/beautiful photos so I can get back in the kitchen with her and create things! Cooking is my love language so I’ve been very sad over the past few years (esp around holidays) when I couldn’t get in the kitchen with my girl! Blogs like yours are making life much simpler and sweeter for so many people out there!:) Keep it up!!!
Also—read the comments and so glad to hear this works with rice flour! Will be giving it a try asap.
Aww Emily, that makes me SO happy. My little cousin is allergic to milk, and I know he sometimes felt left out at parties until his mom started bringing food for everyone, so he could feel normal. No kid wants to feel different!
I hope the cookies work well for you with the rice flour!
My favorite thing about snickerdoodles is how soft they are. And these look like they fit that criteria!
Thanks so much for this recipe! I made this today, and I absolutely love it 🙂
I’m staying up past my bedtime tonight to bake these. They look and sound awesome!!
What’s the ww in ww pastry flour?? Feeling uneducated!
Hey Emily!
Sorry, it was my lazy way of writing whole-wheat pastry flour. (Whole wheat pastry flour is better for baking than regular whole wheat flour, which can be really dense.)
Ahhh….thanks! A trip to the grocery store to find ww pastry flour is on my to-do list for tomorrow. LOVE snickerdoodles! Your blog is GREAT! So glad I found you. Keep up the awesome job 🙂