Snickerdoodles Everyone loves these cookies! I will not try another snickerdoodle recipe. People ask me to make these all the time whether its my mom to make them so she can take them to work or my bosses wife to have for christmas. I say these cookies are best softer so its best to take them out at 8 minutes or even earlier and let them cook on the sheet for a couple minutes. I found a trick for coating the cookie with cinnamon sugar. If you put the cinnamon and the sugar in a small round bowl, then scoop a ball of dough, drop it into the sugar mix and pick up the bowl and move in a circular motion so the cookie is coated evenly.