One of our girls doesn’t like chocolate! Hard to believe if you’re a chocolate lover like me, but I’m always looking for a chocolate alternative for dessert around my house. Fortunately, this was Beth’s specialty growing up, and I’ve stolen her recipe for my own.

　　

Ingredients

makes 4 to 5 dozen

　　1/2 cup salted butter

　　1/2 cup vegetable shortening

　　1 1/2 cups plus 2 tablespoons sugar

　　2 medium eggs

　　2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

　　2 teaspoons cream of tartar

　　1 teaspoon baking soda

　　1/4 teaspoon salt

　　2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

　　

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 400°F. In a large bowl, combine the butter, shortening, 1 1/2 cups sugar, and the eggs and mix thoroughly. Sift together the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt, and stir into the shortening mixture.

　　

Step 2

In a small bowl, stir together the remaining 2 tablespoons sugar with the cinnamon. Shape the dough into 1 1/2-inch balls and roll each ball in the cinnamon sugar. Arrange the dough balls 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes. Transfer the cookies to wire racks for cooling. Store in an airtight container.

　　Reprinted with permission from Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen: Recipes from My Family to Yours by Trisha Yearwood with Gwen Yearwood and Beth Yearwood Bernard. Copyright © 2008 by Trisha Yearwood. Published by Crown Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved.Trisha Yearwood is a three-time Grammy-award winning country music star and the author of the bestselling cookbook Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen. She is married to megastar Garth Brooks.