Eggnog Snickerdoodles with Ginger Snap Sugar: the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap

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It’s Cookie Time!!

Eggnog Snickerdoodles and Ginger Snaps

This is my second year participating in the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap and I am already looking forward to next year. Participants in the cookie swap get assigned three food bloggers that they will send a dozen cookies to and in turn they receive a dozen cookies from three food bloggers they do not know. It is a great way to learn about other food bloggers and eat stuff your face with delicious cookies. This year I received Chewy Ginger Snap cookies from So Very Blessed, perfect Shortbread cookies from Laughing Spatula, and Biscoff Browned Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chips from Sun and Good Eats. All of the cookies were delicious and not surprisingly, I had no trouble eating them all (well I shared them with some of the family and co-workers).

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This year I knew I wanted to make snickerdoodles because they are my favorite! I remember making them when I was a kid and the only reason I knew they were snickerdoodles is because we got to roll them in cinnamon and sugar before baking. I am naturally drawn to cookies that get rolled in something before baking, I guess I really like playing with my food. For the FB Cookie Swap I felt like I couldn’t just make the normal snickerdoodle, I wanted a snickerdoodle with personality. In order to get this accomplished I enlisted the help of my brother who also happens to be a secret baker.

Me and the Brother

He had some pretty crafty ideas but ultimately we came up with making Eggnog Snickerdoodles and rolling them in a sugar-coating made up of Ginger Snaps instead of cinnamon and sugar. My brother has been known to make delicious crepes and cream puffs. He might have become trained in the art of french pastries while we weren’t looking. I don’t know where he gets it from. I think he has been known to make cookies when everyone is asleep or decide to make brownies out of boredom. He never ceases to amaze me!

Ginger Snaps

I have this dream of opening up some sort of food establishment and hiring my brother to do the desserts. He doesn’t seem to love this idea but he will, HE WILL! The holidays always bring out the baker in all of us so I am going to keep harassing him about this. My siblings and I have a long history of baking and decorating cookies for santa. My brother and I still try to make cookies for “Santa” and have been known to stay up late decorating gingerbread people or reindeer sugar cookies. I doubt any of this surprises you since I am basically still a child. I get bummed out if we wake up and “Santa” has not eaten a cookie during the night…I guess it helps if we make cookies that dad Santa will like.

Baked Snickerdoodles

Anyhow, we really enjoyed making these cookies. I hope my FB Cookie Swap recipients enjoyed eating them. I am fairly certain Santa will enjoy these special snickerdoodles so you should make them this Christmas! If you are a food blogger you should consider signing up for the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap next year!

Eggnog Snickerdoodles with Ginger Snaps

 

4 Comments

  1. I’m so glad you enjoyed the cookies! Yours sound (and look!) absolutely delicious! What a brilliant combination of holiday flavors!

     
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