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Ingredients
- 1/2 C salted butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 C vegetable shortening
- 1.5 C sugar
- 2 medium eggs
- 2.75 C AP flour
- 2 t cream of tartar
- 1 t baking soda
- 1/4 t fine salt
- 2 t ground cinnamon
- 2 T sugar
Variations
- Substitute sugar with vanilla sugar OR 1 t vanilla
- Chill the dough to make it easier to roll into balls
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400ยบ F.
- In a large bowl, combine the butter, shortening, sugar, and the eggs and mix thoroughly with an electric mixer on medium speed until creamy and well combined, 1 to 2 minutes.
- Sift together the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt, and stir into the shortening mixture.
- In a small bowl, stir together the remaining sugar with the cinnamon.
- Shape the dough into 1 1/2-inch balls (1 T per ball), and roll each ball in the cinnamon-sugar.
- Arrange the dough balls 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
- Bake two sheets at a time until the edges of the cookies are set but the centers are still soft, 8 to 10 minutes, rotating the sheets halfway through.
- Transfer the cookies to wire racks for cooling.
- Repeat with the remaining dough balls.
- Store in an airtight container.