Clementine Orange Snickerdoodles
Bright citrus snickerdoodles flavored with clementine zest and juice, rolled in cinnamon sugar.
⏱️ Prep: 20 min🍳 Cook: 30 min🍽️ Makes 60
Ingredients
| 1 1/2 cups | 360 ml | sugar |
| 2 | zest of clementine oranges | |
| 1 cup (2 sticks) | unsalted butter, softened | |
| 2 | eggs | |
| 2 tablespoons | 30 ml | freshly squeezed clementine orange juice |
| 2 3/4 cups | 660 ml | all-purpose flour |
| 2 teaspoons | 10 ml | cream of tartar |
| 1 teaspoon | 5 ml | baking soda |
| 1/4 teaspoon | 1.3 ml | salt |
| 3 tablespoons | 45 ml | sugar (cinnamon sugar topping) |
| 1 tablespoon | 15 ml | ground cinnamon (topping) |
Instructions
Prep time: 20 minutes | Cook time: 30 minutes | Total time: 50 minutes Yield: 5 dozen cookies
- Heat the oven to 400°F.
- Combine the sugar, butter, clementine zest, juice and eggs in a large bowl. Stir in the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt.
- Shape the dough by rounded teaspoonfuls into balls. Combine the cinnamon sugar topping ingredients together in a small bowl; roll the balls in the mixture. Place the balls about 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet, lined with parchment.
- Bake the cookies until they're set and golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Immediately remove them from the cookie sheet. Cool them completely on a wire rack.
You can, of course, always substitute other varieties of oranges in this recipe. If you use a navel orange or another that's much larger than a clementine, you'll probably only need the zest from one piece of fruit.