snickerdoodles

  • Professional Snickerdoodles

    ByJames

    When I first started working in professional kitchens, I thought I knew everything about snickerdoodles. I’d been making them since I was a kid, after all. But then my head pastry chef at the time handed me one from his personal recipe, and I realized I’d been eating glorified sugar cookies my whole life. These…

  • Perfect Snickerdoodles

    ByOliver

    The first time I tried to make snickerdoodles, I was 16 and working my first kitchen job. I thought cookies were easy—mix, scoop, bake, done. Instead, I got flat, greasy discs that tasted more like cinnamon cardboard than the pillowy, tangy cookies I remembered from childhood. My chef at the time laughed and said, “Oliver,…