Ah the combination of cinnamon and buttery goodness. Cinnamon is so perfect on just about any baked good, but something about a snickerdoodle makes it significantly better. Back in the days where I had regular snickerdoodles I always recalled them to have a specific buttery and slightly salty richness to intertwine with the sweet and fragrant cinnamon. They had a texture that wasnt crumbly but soft and slightly chewy.

Surprisingly almond flour makes a really nice and chewy cookie so long as you keep the eggs to a minimum in it. Almond flour also adds a beautiful richness and buttery nuttiness to these cookies that you wouldnt get form a regular snickerdoodle, so I might say these are better. My mom was the one who introduced me to snickerdoodles when I was a kid. I specifically remember it actually because I remember her mentioning it and me being utterly beffudled by the name. Snickerdoodles? That’s an incredibly weird name for a cookie.

So she promptly showed me what a Snickerdoodle was and I fell in love. An incredibly simple cookie that has so much power and elegance with a misplaced name. I actually have no idea where the name itself came from. I tried researching it a bit and came up with a few results.

Some places said that it could have a German origin from the German word Schneckennudeln which are snail noodles, a type of pastry.I know, I just threw another weird pastry name at you, I apologize for that. Another source said it could just be another English cookie with a hilarious name. Either way, the name is a tad ridiculous. But I don’t discriminate against odd and misplaced names especially this one because none the less they taste amazing and fill your house with the sweet smell of cinnamon.



