Holiday Snickerdoodles

With the family here for the Holidays we go through a lot of cookies, and these holiday snickerdoodles are one of the favorites in the house.  This recipe make a LOT of cookies and well they are almost gone already and it has only been a couple days.  I guess we will have to make some more cookies today before we have a cookie emergency on our hands. I think sugar cookies are next on our cookie list to make so that is what we will be doing today, I just hope we can save some for Santa.

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Ingredients

1 ½ cups granulated sugar	¼ tsp salt
½ cup shortening	1 tsp baking soda
½ cup butter or margarine, softened	2 tbs green sugar
2 eggs	1 ½ tsp ground cinnamon
2 ¾ all purpose flour	2 tbs red sugar
2 tsp cream of tartar	1 ½ tsp ground cinnamon

Directions

Heat oven to 400F. 

In two small bowls mix red and green sugar with cinnamon; set aside.

  In a large bowl, beat granulated sugar, shortening, butter, and eggs, until well blended.  Stir in flour, cream of 

tartar, baking soda and salt until dough forms.

 Shape dough into ¾ inch balls; roll balls in red and green sugar mixtures.

 Place balls about 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet.

 Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until centers are almost set.