Old Fashioned Chocolate Sour Cream Cookies

Chocolate Sour Cream Cookies are little mounds of chocolaty goodness in one little bite…well, depending on how big a drop cookie you make.

Folks this little cookie is every one’s favorite.  I always make them at Christmas and my family loves them so much that I usually have to make them several times before the holiday.  It is a very simple recipe and an old recipe.  My Mother gave it to me when I was 15 and I have been making them ever since.

Sometimes I make them plain with no frosting but the kids always want the frosting even if it is just a quick swirl on top of the rounded cookie…so I have included the frosting recipe also.  It is just the usual powdered sugar frosting with chocolate added.  One quick note, the chocolate in these cookies is the bars of unsweetened baking chocolate.  Don’t make the mistake of using a chocolate bar that is considered a candy bar.  Most younger people don’t realize that the baking chocolate bars and candy bars are not the same.🥰

I hope you make and like these chocolate sour cream cookies and they become a Christmas favorite at your house.  Or anytime for that matter.

Old Fashioned Chocolate Sour Cream Cookies

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Ingredients

  

• 1/2 cup shortening (I use crisco)
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 2 squares unsweetened chocolate
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 3/4 cup flour
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2-1 cups chopped pecans (optional)

Instructions

 

• Mix together shortening, sugar and eggs

  Melt unsweetened chocolate squares and add to the above.

  Stir in sour cream and vanilla

  Sift together flour, soda, baking powder and salt

  Add to the wet mixture

  Add nuts if desired.

  Chill dough one hour

  Drop by teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet

  Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes

  When cool, frost with frosting by swirling a small amount atop each cookie

  Frosting:

  1 cup powdered sugar

  1 teaspoon milk

  1 teaspoon cocoa
• Yields about 5 dozen cookies
• 1 cup Carnation milk with 1 teaspoon vinegar can be used as a substitute for the sour cream.

  If frosting is too thin, add more powdered sugar

  If frosting is too thick, add more milk

  Frosting should be a thick consistency to be able to swirl atop each cookie. I don't frost the whole cookie....just a dab on top.

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