I recently made these to celebrate a friend’s birthday and forgot to take a photo! Here’s the photo from the website that I got the recipe from.
To me, these taste like little frosted brownies.
Chocolate Drop Cookies
Old-fashioned Chocolate Drop Cookies are a soft cake-like cookie with a swirl of chocolate
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Icing 20 minutes
Servings 38 Cookies (I can verify this! It’s a big batch of cookies. Feel free to reduce by half if you don’t need this many)
Calories 203 kcal
Author Janet Barton
Ingredients
Chocolate Drop Cookies
- 1 cup butter softened (I used unsalted butter)
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 1/4 cups sour cream
- 1/4 cup milk (I used almond milk)
- 2/3 cup cocoa powder
- 3 1/2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing
- 1/2 cup butter softened (I used unsalted butter)
- 4 oz. cream cheese softened
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons milk (I used almond milk)
Instructions
Chocolate Drop Cookies
- Preheat oven to 400℉. Sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Add the flour mixture alternately with the sour cream and milk. Mix until creamy scraping down the sides and bottom of the bowl periodically.
- Drop cookie dough onto a parchment-lined cookie sheet with an ice cream scoop (approximately 2 tablespoons of dough). Bake in a preheated 400℉ degree oven for 10-12 minutes or until the dough springs back after lightly touching. Let cool completely before icing.
It’s important to use a good quality cocoa powder since that’s the hero of the recipe. I used this.
