snickerdoodle

noun

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

The shop’s menu features cookies in an assortment of flavors, ranging from classics such as chocolate chip and snickerdoodle to specials including apple pie, Mexican hot chocolate, Oreo cheesecake and Almond Joy.. —Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 23 Feb. 2024

The tin decorated in Magnolia’s signature colors includes two dozen spritz cookies, chocolate peppermint bark and six of each of beloved cookie flavors like jammy thumbprint, snickerdoodle and gingersnap. —Anna Haines, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023

The trickiest part of this brown butter snickerdoodles recipe is browning the butter. —Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2023

The snickerdoodle cookie dough Blizzard was another fan favorite choice and blends snickerdoodle cookie dough pieces and cinnamon sugar. —Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 27 Nov. 2023

The set includes 16 chocolate truffles in four flavors: snickerdoodle, chocolate chip, gingerbread, and double fudge peppermint. —Enjanae' Taylor, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2023

Brown sugar, snickerdoodle, and vanilla are only a few of the popular fall scents that come included with every order. —Rebecca Martinson, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023

At the end of the day, though, nothing beats a really great pumpkin-spiced dessert—like these sweet-as-pie pumpkin spice snickerdoodles. —Farideh Sadeghin, Saveur, 26 Oct. 2023

Photographer Eduardo Contreras and I sampled her snickerdoodles and sablés during our photo shoot and left hungering to try more. —Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2023

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