Frosted Chocolate Drops
- Preparation time: 15 minutes
- Cooking time: 10 minutes
- Total time: 30 minutes
Ingredients
For Single recipe
(2½ Dozen Cookies)
Ingredients To Be Creamed:
- ½ cup butter (1 stick)
- 1 cup brown sugar
Moist Ingredients:
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 ounces melted unsweetened chocolate (cooled)
- ⅓ cup buttermilk
Dry Ingredients:
- 1¾ cups flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt (omit if using salted butter)
Optional Nuts:
Frosting:
Ingredients
For Double recipe
(5 Dozen Cookies)
Ingredients To Be Creamed:
- 1 cup butter (2 sticks)
- 2 cups brown sugar
Moist Ingredients:
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 4 ounces melted unsweetened chocolate (cooled)
- ⅔ cup buttermilk
Dry Ingredients:
- 3½ cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt (omit if using salted butter)
Optional Nuts:
Frosting:
Instructions
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Preheat oven:
Standard Oven: 400° | Convection Oven: 375°
- Grease cookies sheets and set aside. Click here to learn more about how to grease cookie sheets.
- In a small bowl, melt the chocolate in the microwave for 30 seconds. Stir and repeat the process until the chocolate is completely melted.
- Set the chocolate aside to cool. If you do not have a microwave click here for other options on melting chocolate.
- Cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
- Mix in egg and vanilla.
- Mix in melted chocolate.
- Mix in buttermilk.
- Mix in dry ingredients.
- Add optional chopped walnuts.
- Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls about 2-inches apart on the greased cookie sheets.
- Bake until almost no indentation remains when touched, approximately 8 to 10 minutes.
- Immediately remove from cookie sheets and cool on a rack.
- After cookies are completely cooled, frost with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
Comments
For a similar recipe using both chocolate chips and white chocolate chips instead of frosting try my recipe for Double Chocolate Drops.