Snickers and doodles

I have a friend who moved to Fresno a few years back who absolutely adores snickerdoodles. Aptly so as she had a coworker who used to mispronounce her name as cinnamon... or perhaps that's what the coworker thought her name was? Anyhow this friend would make daily trips to Starbucks to satiate her snickerdoodle cravings, and thus this blog post is for her.

Snickerdoodles aren't your run-of-the-mill sugar cookie. Where they got their interesting name is beyond me*. They're light and airy due to the cream of tartar added, yet crispy on the bottom. The best part is that they're rolled in a mixture of cinnamon and sugar lending a slightly crackly spicy crust.

I recently discovered a couple interesting facts about cinnamon. Studies have shown that it can significantly lower your blood sugar level, although I think you have to eat it by the tablespoon-full. And seeing as how much sugar and carbs go into this cookie, I think the cinnamon is rendered useless. Also, I unfortunately discovered through unintentionally giving a friend a cinnamon banana muffin, that some people are actually allergic to cinnamon. Yipes!

I also came across a stray bag of chocolate chips in the pantry and decided to throw together some chocolate chip cookies. Whats another 3-4 dozen cookies in the oven anyways?

*According to Wikipedia:
"The Joy of Cooking claims that snickerdoodles are probably German in origin, and that the name is a corruption of the German word Schneckennudeln, which means "snail dumpling." A different author suggests that the word "snicker" comes from the Dutch word snekrad, or the German word Schnecke, which both describe a snail-like shape. Yet another theory suggests that the name comes from a New England tradition of fanciful, whimsical cookie names. There is also a series of tall tales about a hero named "Snickerdoodle" from the early 1900s which may be related to the name of the cookie."

So now you know...and knowing is half the battle.