Hello, Magical Baking Enthusiasts! As promised, we’re back today to briefly touch on our initial experience with one of the delicious recipes from The Official Disney Parks Desserts Cookbook: Remembering 101 Sweet Delicious Disney Recipes by Pam Brandon, a newly released cookbook that we previously covered here on MouseHouseNews.net.
The first recipe we selected to bake from this delightful cookbook is actually one we fondly remember trying as part of the Cookie Stroll at the EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays: the Snickerdoodle Cookies with SNICKERS® Bar Pieces. For the last couple of years, this tasty treat has bounced around between several different festival booths. We are eagerly hoping that it will once again make an appearance at the 2025 festival! We’ll be sure to keep you updated once the official menus for the International Festival of the Holidays are released. In the meantime, let’s get baking! (If you don’t have the cookbook, don’t fret… Disney has released this recipe online, which you can find here).
Making the Dough
Start by gathering together the necessary ingredients. If you’ve made snickerdoodles before, most of the ingredients will likely look pretty familiar.
Mix together the dry ingredients in a medium bowl.
Then, cream together the shortening and sugar.
Add the eggs and mix to combine.
Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Once everything is combined, use a cookie scoop to scoop out balls of dough. Refrigerate the dough balls for approximately 20 minutes.
Baking the Cookies
After preheating the oven, roll half of the refrigerated dough balls in a cinnamon sugar mixture.
The recipe suggests to bake on a baking sheet lined with either parchment paper or a silicone mat. We tried it both ways, and found that we preferred the silicone mat. However, both methods yielded similar results.
About halfway through baking is when things get interesting and deviate from your typical snickerdoodle cookie. Remove the partially baked cookies, and top them with chopped Snickers® bar pieces (yum!). Put the Snickers®-topped cookies back in the oven and continue to bake according to the recipe directions.
Once lightly browned on the edges, remove the cookies from the oven. They’ll need to cool on the cookie sheet for a couple of minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
Decorating
The finishing touch is to drizzle melted chocolate over the top. Voila! Now you can enjoy some delicious cookies and imagine that you are back at EPCOT celebrating the holiday season (any time of year).
Final Thoughts
The cookies were exceptionally delicious and were given two thumbs up by everyone who tried them. The Snickers® bar pieces really elevated the taste of the cookie due to the addition of the nougat, caramel, and peanuts. It is on the sweet side, but that is to be expected. Chocolate lovers will fall in love with this one! The recipe was easy to follow and was not too advanced, so anyone with a basic understanding of baking will be able to tackle this task. We’ll definitely be baking them again!
Our biggest takeaway is that, even baked at home, these cookies will spread and are MASSIVE! Our first batch were too close together, so they didn’t look like picture-perfect round cookies because they had baked into each other. Still extremely tasty, but not very photogenic 😉. Be sure to give them plenty of room on the baking pan, and maybe only bake a few at a time if necessary. Stay tuned for more Disney vacation news, reviews, and fun from the team here at MouseHouseNews.net!
