Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Cheerio Snickerdoodles

Ingredients:
  • 8 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/2 cup oats
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 3/4 cups Honey Nut Cheerios
For cinnamon sugar:
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
Method to the Madness:
  1. Mix together flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Set aside.
  2. Cream butter and both sugars together until well mixed. Add in the egg and vanilla.
  3. Mix in the dry mixture to the wet mixture. Slowly stir in the Cheerios.
  4. Chill the dough for 2 hours.
  5. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  6. Shape dough into balls and roll in cinnamon sugar mixture. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before moving cookies to a cooling rack.

1 comment:

~ Amy said...

these are quite good. I used cinnamon cheerios since we needed to use them up. They were very tasty!!