Snickerdoodle Recipe Without Cream of Tartar
This Snickerdoodle recipe without cream of tartar is your answer to enjoying the same soft, chewy cookies you love — without an extra trip to the store.
Yes, you can make perfect snickerdoodles with simple pantry staples, and no one will ever know you skipped that “must-have” ingredient.
Learn exactly how to get that signature texture and tangy sweetness using everyday ingredients you already have for a cookie recipe that comes out fluffy, soft, and irresistibly spiced.
How to Make Snickerdoodles Without Cream of Tartar
- Start by bringing your ingredients to room temperature and lining a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Cream together sugar, shortening, butter, and eggs, then gradually mix in flour until fully combined.
- In a separate bowl, combine cinnamon and sugar.
- Scoop dough into 1¼-inch balls, roll in the cinnamon-sugar mixture, and place on the baking sheet.
- Bake at 8–10 minutes until golden, then cool on a rack for 4–5 minutes for perfectly soft, chewy cookies.
Absolutely—roll the dough into balls, freeze on a baking sheet, then store in an airtight container. Just add an extra minute to the bake time.
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Snickerdoodle Cookies Recipe Without Cream of Tartar
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup vegetable shortening
- ½ cup margarine or butter
- 2 eggs
- 2 and 3/4 cup flour
- ¼ cup sugar
- 3 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Cream together sugar, shortening, margarine/butter and eggs in a large mixing bowl.
- Slowly add in the flour until well combined.
- Form 1 and 1/4 inch balls, roll in cinnamon sugar mixture, and place on a parchment lined cookie sheet.
- Bake snickerdoodle cookies for 8-10 minutes until cookies are light brown.
- Let them sit on the sheet for 3-4 minutes then cool on wire racks.
- These snickerdoodle cookies are best to taste when warm.
These look delicious 🙂 Do you think coconut oil would work as a substitute for shortening? I don’t usually use shortening here. I could try it with shortening if you don’t think it would make a good substitute tho. It works for most other things I make but never tried it in cookies haha! I have both refined and extra virgin – refined won’t have the flavor of the coconut and handles higher heat.
Honestly, I have no idea!!! I never keep shortening on hand, just around the holidays when I make cookie recipes. The shortening makes for a puffier, crispier cookie. If you decide to try it out, let me know the results!
Merangue, biscuits, angel food cake, those are just off the top of my head but I know there area more recipes requiring cream of tarter.
Thanks for that Melanie! I actually never use cream of tartar in my biscuits, you can check out how I make my homemade biscuits here: https://www.mommalew.com/homemade-buttermilk-biscuits/
Both mirangue and Angel Food Cake are items I haven’t even come close to mastering enough to share any sort of recipe for.
But back to the original recipe, snickerdoodle cookies without cream of tartar, give them a try without it, this recipe is so good!