Cinnamon-Sugar Cookies

By Addie

My mom always had these cookies on hand. They're so good with a cup of hot chocolate, coffee or milk.

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 4 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 cup finely chopped pecans, optional
• Colored sugar, optional

Preparation

Step 1

In a large bowl, cream the butter, sugars and oil. Add eggs and vanilla; mix well. Add flour, salt, baking soda, cream of tartar and cinnamon. Stir in the pecans if desired. Cover and refrigerated for 3 hours or until easy to handle.

Roll into 1-in. balls. Place on greased baking sheets; flatten with the bottom of a glass dipped in sugar. Sprinkle with colored sugar if desired.

Bake at 375° for 10-12 minutes or until set. Yield: about 8 dozen.
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REVIEWS:

I've made these cookies every year since the year they first appeared in the magazine. They are HANDS DOWN my family's favorite cookies.

My family loved the texture and taste of these. I envision baking these for other holidays and just altering the colored sugar used on top. Delicious!

Great tasting cookies. I will be making them again.

These are good – too good. I’m familiar with the light, crispy, sandy texture that the powdered sugar/oil/cream of tartar combo produces in a cookie and these turned out just as I imagined they would. I wanted a really cinnamony cookie so I tasted the dough and decided to double up on the cinnamon. Even at that, however, they weren’t overly cinnamony so I was glad I had made the addition. Diehard cinnamon lovers may want to add even more cinnamon and/or add cinnamon extract or cinnamon chips. But make no mistake – sticking to the recipe just as is would have produced a great cookie too! The dough was a little on the goopy side and I was almost tempted to add more flour, but after a few hours in the fridge it was just fine. I rolled the cookie dough balls in sugar as well as flattening them with a sugared glass and placed them on ungreased cookie sheets. Not a fancy cookie but still a beautiful, sparkly, tender, cinnamon-sugar cookie. Loved ‘em.

I LOVE that these cookies are light and crispy. I didn't use the colored sprinkles, myself. I formed balls with the dough, and then rolled the balls of dough in a bowl of cinnamon/sugar mix, then placed them on the cookie sheet and flattened them with the glass. Awesome!

I like how you took this common recipe and added such a simple ingredient like cinnamon to change the taste. It gave it a sort of spice yet sweetness. but it didnt over-power the original sugar taste.

This is a great recipe. No need to roll out dough and cut cookies to make evenly round cookies. I used macadamia nuts and they were delicious! I think I may put a little less vegetable oil just because I'm grease-aphobic.

Brought some to a meeting and they were a HIT! EASY to make with my 4 year old too. *revised* I forgot about these (just for a little while) until I looked in my box. Everyone loves them just as much this year! Won't be forgetting this again!

After reading other's remarks, I halved the recipe (I just needed a few cookies to add on the side of an ice cream dish drizzled with melted dark chocolate mixed with heavy whipping cream) and instead of using 1/2 c. oil, I used 1/3 c. I also doubled the amount of cinnamon. The first batch I left rolled up and they were fairly thick (1/2 inch) after cooking. And fabulous. I wanted more of a wafer so smushed the second batch after rolling in cinnamon sugar (cinnamon sugar also on the bottom of the glass I used). Same fabulous cookie, just a little lighter and crispier. Will use this one again. Super easy. I wasn't even super careful when measuring. Dough was easy to handle. A+

This was a great cookie recipe. Everyone loved it.

These cookies remind me and my neighbor of delicate snickerdoodles. We really liked them!

Great! I made these for a friend's birthday, and some for my family. They were AMAZING!

These are great! They taste like shortbread cookies with a hint of cinnamon! The only change I made from the directions was that I combined the flour, baking soda, cream of tartar and cinnamon ahead of time. Then I cream the sugars and butter so when that was done I gradually added in the egg, vanilla and flour mix. I also didn't them in sugar. I bake them for 10 minutes, and they turned out very soft and crispy! I also used a 1/4 cup to make bigger cookies and baked those for 15 minutes. They turned out just as great! Next time I'll add in more cinnamon to the recipe so I can taste more cinnamon!

Brought them to work and I receieved complements all day! Very easy recipe and a great result.

This cookie is delicious! It's very light and crispy. I made these for an office carry-in and they were a hit!

Best recipe of Cinnamon Sugar Cookies!!! ( I have tried many) and this is my favorite by far!!!! The only change I made was to use only 1/2 of teaspoon of cinnamon with the dough, and then rolled the balls with a cinnamon/sugar mix before flattening them with the glass (I only did this because my daughter likes them cinnamonny!!!!! Thank you for posting this recipe!!!

Ok so I love baking and I wanted to make some sugar cookies for my fiance. He loves them. And and I saw this recipe and tried it. I did as someone suggested and rolled the balls of dough in cinnamon and sugar before I baked them. They turned out great and everyone loved them. I'm making more this weekend and already have people asking me for them.

These cookies were delicious and very easy to make. My daughter especially liked sprinkling on the colored sugar.