Snickerdoodle Pie

We're headed down to the Springs tomorrow to celebrate Dad's birthday. So tonight we're making the premiere of Snickerdoodle Pie to take along. (Dad, if you get up early and read this before we're there, act surprised.)

The instructions, with a few Tori additions in italics:


Preheat oven to 350^o F. Prepare pastry and line 9" pie plate. In a bowl combine raw sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon.


Brush melted butter over crust. Sprinkle with 1 teaspoon of cinnamon-sugar mixture. Set aside.



For syrup, in saucepan combine brown sugar, 1/4 cup butter, the water, corn syrup and 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon. Heat to boiling over medium heat, stirring to dissolve sugar. Boil gently 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Set aside.

In mixing bowl beat 1/4 cup softened butter with electric mixer on medium speed for 30 seconds. Beat in granulated sugar, powdered sugar, baking powder, salt and cream of tartar until well combined. Beat in egg and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Gradually beat in milk until combined. Beat in flour.

Spread evenly in crust-lined plate. At this point, I'm a little concerned. Spreading evenly isn't so easy. This is basically cookie dough going into a pie crust.

Slowly pour syrup over filling in pie plate.

Not included in Better Homes and Gardens... a faithful helper eager to clean up anything that might hit the floor.


Not looking quite as I imagined at this point. But we're going with it.

Sprinkle with remaining cinnamon-sugar mixture. Ooops, I used it all on the pie crust. Guess we'll make more for the top.


Cover edges of pie with foil. This is to keep the edges from overcooking, I suppose. I'm digging the granny glasses here.


Alien pie, ready for takeoff.


Bake pie 25 minutes


In the meantime, be sure to clean the beaters well....

Carefully remove foil. This is Bob being careful.


Bake 20 minutes more or until top is puffed and golden brown and a toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Ta-da! It looks like a GIANT (albeit slightly messy) snickerdoodle!

Cool 30 minutes on wire rack. I don't have a wire rack, but this will do. We had a bit of fallout from the crust anyway.

Serve warm. Bob does his part to help "clean up." And it is REALLY good warm.

For those ready to make a not so perfect but very yummy pie yourself, here are the ingredients:

Snickerdoodle Pie
From Better Homes and Gardens

1 rolled refrigerated unbaked piecrust or your favorite homemade pie crust (9")
1 Tablespoon raw sugar or coarse sugar
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon, divided
1/2 cup butter plus 1 Tablespoon, divided (some softened, some melted)
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
3 Tablespoons water
2 Tablespoons light colored corn syrup
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla, divided
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1-1/4 cups all-purpose flour