snickerdoodle

noun

snick·​er·​doo·​dle ˈsni-kər-ˌdü-dᵊl 

plural snickerdoodles

: a cookie that is made with usually butter, sugar, and flour and that is rolled in cinnamon sugar before baking

Examples of snickerdoodle in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

From snickerdoodles to bake-and-ice sugar cookies, no-bake peanut butter bites to lemon bars, here are half a dozen cookie recipes to make this holiday season. —Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 29 Nov. 2024

This is another great way to use up shortbread cookies, but this snickerdoodle cheesecake recipe also makes an intriguing case for swapping in leftover snickerdoodles instead. —Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Dec. 2024

Cookies are baked daily and include chocolate chip, snickerdoodle, M&M, double chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, peanut butter chip, macadamia, and sugar iced cookies. —Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 4 Dec. 2024

Unlike snickerdoodles and chocolate chip cookies that begin to turn golden, these sugar cookies will remain pretty pale. —Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2024

Word History

Etymology

probably a fanciful coinage, from snicker entry 2 + doodle "doodlebug" (though without clear semantic connection to either word)

Note: An alternative etymology derives the word from Palatinate German dialect Schneckennudel, Scheckennurel, Schleckenu^rrl "sweet pastry made from yeast dough twisted into a spiral" (from Schnecken "snail" and Nudel "dough in various forms"), with variants in other dialects (Baden, Swabia, Saarland). However, none of these words appear to have surfaced in 19th-century American English, and early attestations of snickerdoodle do not suggest a German-American connection.

First Known Use

1889, in the meaning defined above