My Great-Grandma Bertha always made baking fun when I was a kid, even when things didn’t turn out as planned. There were more than a few times that we accidentally made sugar cookies the size of my head, forgot to add an ingredient, or burned our fingers trying to sneak a bite of our dessert, but none of the mistakes ever mattered to me as long as we enjoyed the process. Once she got to a certain age our homemade dough was exchanged for frozen pillsbury cookies, and while I still loved our time baking together, I haven’t made homemade cookies since!
Although Grandma Bertha was more into baking cakes and pies, she always had a soft spot for a good cookie. I was not able to get any of her amazing recipes before she passed away, but I wanted to make sure I found something she might have also enjoyed. The snickerdoodle recipe from Hummingbird High uses easily accessible ingredients, and the substitution for baking powder that I found on Fine Dining Lovers worked perfectly. Admittedly, I was nervous about baking from scratch again after more than a decade, but the initial anxiety was soon replaced with fond memories of baking with my Grandma Bertha when I was younger. Between flashbacks of my grandma whisking the dough for me when my arms got tired and reminiscing on how she inspired me to get back into baking just a few years ago, I loved baking this snickerdoodle cookie recipe even if things didn’t come out as planned. It wasn’t a perfect cookie batch, but I know she would have loved baking them with me anyways.
