Snickerdoodle Deliciousness

Nom Nom Nom Nom! 

When I decided that I wanted to bring the crew a special treat for the holidays, my mind immediately jumped to Snickerdoodles. They are easily one of my favorite cookies and the cinnamon-sugar combination always reminds me of the Holiday season. 

I have a recipe that I normally use for these, but since I'm trying to eat and live healthier I tweaked it a bit and the results were, in my opinion, better than the originals. So, without further ado, here's my recipe for Snickerdoodles.

Here's What You'll Need:

1/4 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup applesauce (Cinnamon, it was on hand)
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups Splenda
2 Eggs
2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
2 3/4 cups all purpose flour
2 Teaspoons Cream of Tartar
1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1/4 Teaspoon Salt
2 Tablespoons White Sugar
2 Teaspoons Ground Cinnamon
Parchment Paper (optional)

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F

In a large mixing bowl, add together your butter, applesauce, shortening, splenda, eggs, and vanilla.

After that's well mixed, go ahead and begin to blend in your flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt. 
My dough was a little too doughy so I stuck it in the fridge for about half an hour. 

While I was waiting for my dough to solidify I mixed together the 2 teaspoons of cinnamon and 2 tablespoons of sugar in a small bowl and got my cookie sheet ready with parchment paper. If you don't have parchment paper, spray your cookie sheet with nonstick spray.

I also took a break to lick the beaters . Yum!

Once the dough is a good consistency, use a spoon to scoop out balls of dough.

Roll the dough in the cinnamon sugar mixture until your ball is completely covered and then place on the parchment paper. Continue to do this until your cookie sheet is full.

         

Bake for 8 to 10 minutes at 400 degrees F.

Mine were ready at 8 minutes so keep an eye on them.

Let your cookies cool and then put them away. I used this festive Whitmans Tin! 

It Makes Me Smile.

Random Aside: Another reason that I wanted to make cookies to bring to work is because where I work we serve a Chocolate Chunk Cookie that is to die for. The problem is I recently found out that just one cookie has 568 calories and is worth 15 freaking Weight Watchers points, FOR ONE DAMNED COOKIE!! And I am addicted to these things and have been eating at least one or two a day almost everyday. No wonder I'm getting fat! 4 Weight Watchers points sounds much much better.

Nutritional Information: 1 cookie per serving. Values are Per Serving: 138 calories, 7 g Fat, 15 g Carbs, 2 g Protein, .1 g Fiber. 

4 Weight Watchers points.