My Google-Fu Must Be Mighty, O Snickerdoodles!

It turns out that currently if you search Google for "angelbob snickerdoodles", you only get my older entry, not the updated more-convenient entry. Let's fix that:

Snickerdoodles, the way I currently make them:

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups white sugar (or vanilla sugar)
2 eggs
2+ teaspoons vanilla extract
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoons cream of tartar
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

Cinnamon-sugar coating:
2 tablespoons white sugar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

Strongly based on Mrs Sigg's snickerdoodles.

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F
2. Cream together butter, 1 1/2 cups sugar, the eggs and the vanilla. Blend in the flour, cream of tartar, baking powder and salt. Shape dough by rounded spoonfuls into balls.
3. Mix the cinnamon-sugar coating. Roll balls of dough in mixture. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.
4. Bake 7-8 minutes. Remove immediately from baking sheets.

Whoah Cookie Advice

I Googled chocolate chip cookies for a recipe, as I often do.

The video on the Martha Stewart recipe page, though it's not Martha herself, is *amazing*.

Specifically: it goes through how to separately change the recipe for soft-and-chewy cookies versus thin crispy cookies versus cake-y cookies.

And just randomly, as a side note, he mentions something I've wondered forever: what's the important difference between baking soda and baking powder?

So, for the record? I totally approve of this "kitchen conundrums" guy. And his baking soda versus baking powder advice actually tells me something I hadn't already known, but stumbled on, for my whoah-they're-airy snickerdoodle recipe.

Also that he tells you to use "two teaspoons of the very *best* vanilla extract", while clearly pouring way more than two teaspoons straight from the bottle. This is a man who knows what he's doing.

The Food Lab on Chocolate Chip Cookies

rehana posted a food lab article on chocolate chip cookies in response to my cookie noodling.

Specifically, an article about each ingredient in the recipe, and three or four different ways you can vary how you add it, and the results of each.

Whoah. This is a guy who is serious about his chocolate chip cookies.