Snickerdoodles

snickerdoodles

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour (for most cookie recipes I use whole wheat flour, but for this one I don't think it would work very well)

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

the cookie dough

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup of coconut oil

1 1/4 cup of sugar

1/4 vanilla coconut yogurt

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

2. Thoroughly mix flour, baking powder, cream of tartar, and salt in a medium sized bowl. 

3. Using an electric mixer cream together the coconut oil, 1 cup of sugar, and yogurt for about 2 minutes. Then add the vanilla extract. See the picture for what the dough should look like.

4. Slowly incorporate the flour mixture into the wet ingredients.

5. Combine the remaining 1/4 cup of sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Make balls out of the dough and coat with the sugar and cinnamon. Place them on an ungreased baking sheet and flatten with a fork.

6. Bake for 12 minutes or until the edges are just starting to turn gold. Let cool on the baking sheets for a couple of minutes and then transfer to a cooling rack. 

Adapted from the Real Simple recipe