2 & 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup shortening**
8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter or margarine, softened
1 & 1/2 cups sugar, plus 3 Tablespoons
2 large eggs
1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Sift the flour, baking soda, and salt into a bowl.
With a hand-held or standing mixer, beat together the shortening and butter. Add the 1 & 1/2 cups sugar and continue beating until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the flour mixture and blend until smooth.
Mix the 3 Tablespoons sugar with the cinnamon in a small bowl. Roll the dough, by hand, into 1 1/2-inch balls. Roll the balls in the cinnamon sugar. Flatten the balls into 1/2-inch thick disks, spacing them evenly on unlined cookie sheets. Bake until light brown, but still moist in the center, about 12 minutes. Cool on a rack.
**I did not have shortening, so I just used 1 cup (2 sticks) of margarine total and it turned out great.
3 comments:
These were really good. Very soft and chewy. I loved them and my husband decided these may be his favorite cookies now.
I made these last night they were very yummy. This is one I will make often everyone loved them!
Thanks for posting these Heidi! They are so good!! putting two sticks of butter into them makes me a little nervous, but after tasting them, I decided it was ok. :)
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