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

Baking snickerdoodles was one of the best (and most fun) ways to score some quality time with Grandma during the holidays. —Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025

The stuffed dessert combines, for example, a chocolate chip cookie stuffed with Nutella or a snickerdoodle stuffed with New York cheesecake. —Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2025

Wood’s snickerdoodle cookies are covered in cinnamon and sugar, but the base is a buttery French cookie. —Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 13 May 2025

Get Joanna's snickerdoodle coffee recipe What Does Joanna's Snickerdoodle Coffee Taste Like? Joanna's coffee recipe really does taste like a mashup of a snickerdoodle cookie and black coffee. —Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Apr. 2025

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

Rhymes for snickerdoodle

• boodle
• doodle
• feudal
• noodle
• poodle