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Old Fashioned Sour Cream Cookies

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Old Fashioned Sour Cream Cookies

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by Nicole Franzen

Old Fashioned Sour Cream Cookies

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by Dabblings

  • This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Holiday Confection
  • Kukharka's Testing Notes: Supple and light, these cookies are every bit as demure as freshly baked drop scones—until they hit you with a sucker punch of sweet frosting. It's an addictive combination. To keep your sugar...

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    Dabblings's Notes: There is one story I always have been told about my great grandmother Minnie. Whenever my mom and my aunt would visit she would always make them cookies. Not just "hey lets have a snack cookies...

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Makes six dozen

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 400 degrees.

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  2. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and the sugar together. Add the eggs one at a time and beat well. Add the vanilla and mix until fluffy.

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  3. In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.

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  4. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture alternating with the sour cream. Begin and end with the flour.

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  5. Add in the walnuts and mix until combined.

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  6. Drop by the teaspoonful onto a greased cookie sheet or a cookie sheet lined with Silpat. Space them well apart as they will spread (I did 9 cookies per sheet and they were spaced well).

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  7. Bake for 10 minutes until they are a golden color.

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  8. While the cookies are baking, mix all of the frosting ingredients in a bowl.

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  9. While the cookies are still warm, spread a little frosting on each cookie and top with the chopped walnuts.

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8 Comments on Old Fashioned Sour Cream Cookies

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First batch out of oven, amazing! Substituted chopped macadamias for walnuts, plus used wholemeal flour. Was a bit dubious at the texture as I was making them, as I am used to cookie dough being a lot firmer, but need not have worried they are absolutely delish! Thanks for great recipe.

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I'm so glad you liked them :) I'm sure my great grandmother is beaming right now.

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Made these cookies tonight. They have a very comforting flavor and texture. Would like to add orange zest to the frosting next time.

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That's a great idea!

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No way 2 tablespoons of walnuts, no matter how finely you chop them,are going to stretch to the tops of 6 dozen cookies!
chavany

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Hey I just wanted to make sure that you read the recipe right. It should say 1/2 a cup of chopped walnuts for the topping, not 2 tablespoons. Is it possible that you just got mixed up with the 2 tablespoons of sourcream for the frosting? I do that all the time.

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Ditto - I am not seeing the directions or frosting ingredients either.

Kitchenaid Reply

How strange. The recipe is showing the cookie ingredients twice, but no directions or frosting ingredients. I assume the recipe was posted in full originally, since Kukharka was able to test them?

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