Snickerdoodles

Source: my mom's recipe box - I'm not sure where it originally came from (maybe a Family Fun magazine?)

Ingredients:
2 2/3 cups flour
1 ½ tsp. cream of tartar
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 or less tsp. salt
½ cup butter
½ cup shortening (I'm sure you could substitute this for butter if you're not a shortening-eater)
1 ½ cups sugar
2 large eggs

Directions:
Preheat oven to 400°.  Mix shortening, butter, sugar and eggs.  Add soda, salt and cream of tartar.  Mix together well.  Add flour 1/3 cup at a time.  Roll into small balls (about the size of a shooter marble - like an inch in diameter).  Roll in cinnamon sugar.  Flatten slightly with bottom of a glass.  Bake for about 7-10 minutes (but watch them - you don't want them to really be brown, just barely golden at the edges).  Makes over 60 cookies.

Notes:
Last night I got the hankering for something sweet and I had just bought some cream of tartar this weekend with the hopes of using it for snickerdoodles sometime soon.  Turns out, a chilly Sunday evening in December is a perfect time to make snickerdoodles.  We inhaled these warm out of the oven with a mug of milk.  Mmmm-hmmm.  So delish!  Why do I only ever make snickerdoodles around Christmastime?  Hmm.