Snickerdoodles

• Ingredients:
• 1 cup unsalted butter
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla (this is an occasion worthy of GOOD vanilla!)
• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon

Directions:

1. 1
   Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. 2
   Cream together butter and sugar.
3. 3
   Add in eggs, one at a time, along with vanilla, until well-combined.
4. 4
   Mix dry ingredients (flour, salt, soda, cream of tartar) in a separate bowl. Add dry ingredient mix into the wet mix in 2-3 stages.
5. 5
   Mix the 2 tablespoons sugar and the cinnamon together in a small bowl.
6. 6
   Use your hands to roll dough into little (ping-pong ball-sized) balls.
7. 7
   Roll dough-balls in the cinnamon/sugar mixture so they're covered all the way around. Place them on an ungreased cookie sheet, 2 or 3 inches apart.
8. 8
   Bake 7 or 8 minutes, until they have spread out and have JUST started to turn brown. Remove from cookie sheets and place cookies on cooling rack to cool and set a little. If they're not completely cooked when they come out of the oven, let them cook a bit more on the cookie sheets, out of the oven. 7-8 minutes will make a nice, chewy cookie with a little crispness on the bottom.