Sugar Doodles-Cinnamon Sugar Cookies

Discover Sugardoodles- Cinnamon Sugar Cookies meet Snickerdoodles, the king of hybrid cookies! Soft and chewy with crisp edges and melty white chocolate, you’re going to love them!

Why You’ll Love Easy Cinnamon Sugar Cookies

These soft sugar cookies with cinnamon are the perfect mash-up of our favorite cookies: the buttery goodness of a sugar cookie with the chewy texture of Snickerdoodles. Here are a few more reasons why you’ll want to add them to your favorite cookie recipes:

• Quick Prep – With only 10 minutes of preparation time, sugar doodles make for a quick and convenient baking option.
• Make Ahead – Chilling the cookie dough for at least an hour or overnight enhances the flavor and texture, plus lets you bake them up at your convenience. 
• No Dry, Crumbly Texture – Unlike traditional sugar cookies, this hybrid cookie combination creates a tender pale center with crisped golden edges.
• Easy To Store – Have a stash of frozen cinnamon sugar cookie dough on hand for a cozy, delightful treat whenever holiday guests or friends make a surprise visit.

How To Store Sugar Doodle Cookies

Store cinnamon sugar cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week. 

TIP: Extend the freshness of your cookies by placing a piece of bread in the storage container. The bread helps absorb moisture, preserving the cookies’ texture and taste.

For longer storage, freeze the cookies in a sealed bag for up to 4 months. Allow them to thaw in their container on the counter.

How To Freeze Cookie Dough

Freeze the dough balls until frozen solid, then transfer them to a zip-top freezer bag. Store in the freezer for up to 2 months.

To Bake: Place the dough balls on a parchment-lined baking sheet and let them thaw on the counter for about 20 minutes before baking. You may need to add 1-2 minutes to the bake time.

Ingredients

For specific amounts, please refer to the printable recipe card at the bottom of the post.

• Butter – softened
• Sugar – Use white granulated sugar.
• Brown Sugar – packed firmly into a measuring cup 
• Egg – room temperature
• Caramel Coffee Creamer – Thick and creamy caramel creamer underlines vanilla notes for a richer vanilla cookie flavor. 
• Vanilla Extract – Use pure vanilla extract for the best flavor. Or make your own vanilla extract.
• All Purpose Flour – Whisk, then spoon flour into a measuring cup and level. Flour easily compacts, and baking outcomes are best when measured by weight.   
• Cake Flour – Adds a light fluffy texture to the cookies.
• Baking Soda – Fresh, reactive baking soda is essential for providing the right leavening action in a soft sugar cookie.
• Cinnamon 
• Salt 
• White Chocolate Chips

How To Measure Flour Properly: Did you know THE WAY you measure flour matters? The most precise way to measure your flour is by weight using a digital kitchen scale. 1 cup of flour weighs 125 to 130 grams. If you don’t have a scale measure your flour by scooping flour with a spoon into the cup. Don’t use your measuring cup as a scoop, as it packs the flour down and gives a different measure.

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How To Make Sugar Doodles, Soft Sugar Cookies

What happens when you blend a soft sugar cookie’s buttery goodness with the Snickerdoodle’s chewy texture and add white chocolate chips?! You get a sugar doodle!

When you are making this recipe, you’ll want to use the full recipe at the bottom of the page.

Recipe Tips

• Quality Ingredients: Start with fresh, high-quality ingredients, including butter, egg, and vanilla, for the best flavor and texture.
• Room Temperature Ingredients: Butter and egg should be room temperature to ensure even mixing and consistent results in your cookies.
• Precise Measurement: Use accurate measuring cups and spoons to measure ingredients, especially flour (I prefer to use a kitchen scale), for consistent results.
• Avoid Overmixing: Mix the dough just until ingredients are combined; overmixing can lead to dense and tough cookies.
• Chill Dough: Refrigerate cookie dough before baking to prevent excessive spreading and achieve a better texture.
• Cookie Scoop: Use a cookie scoop to portion out the dough and ensure the cookies are the same size.
• Cool Down: These soft cookies will look pale and almost undercooked, but they continue to cook with residual heat and will firm up while they cool.

Why You Should Chill Cookie Dough

Chilling cookie dough per the recipe is crucial for the best soft sugar cookie. Skipping the chilling step in any cookie recipe can impact your outcome. Here’s why:

• Prevents Spreading – Chilling solidifies the fats in the dough, preventing cookies from spreading too much during baking and maintaining the desired shape.
• Enhances Flavor – While the dough rests, it allows more time for the ingredients to meld and the flavors to develop, so you get a better-tasting cookie.
• Handles Easier – Cold cookie dough reduces stickiness, making it easier to handle and shape, a more efficient baking process.
• Avoids Oiliness – Proper chilling prevents the fats from melting too quickly during baking while the cookie gains structure, avoiding flat and oily or greasy textures in the finished cookies.
• Boost Chewiness – The extra time in the fridge allows the flour to absorb more moisture, enabling gluten (protein) development for a chewier cookie.

Recipe Variations

Cinnamon sugar cookies offer endless possibilities for flavor variations. For example, we added caramel-flavored creamer, but you could add any flavored creamer you might like, such as hazelnut, pumpkin spice creamer, or simply half and half.

• Bread Flour – If you use bread flour in a soft sugar cookie recipe, you get a higher protein content, increasing gluten development and making an extra chewy Sugardoodle.
• Baking Chips – You can experiment with different baking chips, such as butterscotch, dark or milk chocolate, and strawberry or expresso-flavored chips. I think Heath’s Toffee Nibs would be over-the-top good!
• Spices – If you want to punch up the spiced cookie factor, consider a pinch of nutmeg, allspice, or ginger in the cookie dough. 
• Pizzaz – When you want your cinnamon sugar cookies to pop, you can fancy them up dip half of the baked cookie in melted white chocolate, and add sprinkles, edible glitter, or colored sanding sugar.

Originally posted in January 2016. UPDATED December 2023. We spiffed up this post with more information and no changes to the recipe.