Chocolate Drop Cookies Recipe

Gramma Helen’s Chocolate Drop Cookies

cream together:
1/2 Cup shortening, margarine or butter
1 Cup brown sugar

add:
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla

in a separate bowl sift together:
1 3/4 Cup flour (2 cups in high elevation)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda

add dry ingredients alternately
with 1/2 cup of milk to first mixture
mix until well blended

stir in 2 squares of baker's chocolate
and 1/2 cup of nuts (optional) usually walnuts

Drop by teaspoons
Bake at 350 F
for 12-15 minutes
makes about 2 dozen
cool then if desired glaze with the below chocolate glaze.

CHOCOLATE GLAZE

Stir over low until all melted:
4 Tablespoons cocoa
3 Tablespoons water
2 Tablespoons butter
2 Tablespoons light corn syrup

Remove from heat and add:
1 1/4 cup sifted powdered sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla

To make a thicker icing add more powdered sugar until it is spreading consistency.

You might have to make more than one batch of these. To fill my cookie jar faster than the children ate them, I made four batches of cookies and two batches of the glaze. Gramma Helen’s Chocolate Drop Cookies

1/2 Cup margarine
1 Cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 3/4 Cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup of milk
2 squares of baker's chocolate
1/2 cup walnuts (optional)

CHOCOLATE GLAZE

Stir over low until all melted:
4 Tablespoons cocoa
3 Tablespoons water
2 Tablespoons butter
2 Tablespoons light corn syrup

Remove from heat and add:
1 1/4 cup sifted powdered sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla

To make a thicker icing add more powdered sugar until it is spreading consistency.

Melt the chocolate squares and allow to cool
Cream margarine and brown sugar together
Add egg and vanilla
Sift together the flour, salt and baking soda in a separate bowl
Add the dry ingredients alternately with the milk to the creamed mixtureMix until well blended
Add the melted chocolate
Drop by teaspoons onto baking sheets
Bake at 350 F for 12-15 minutes
Cool and glaze if desired

makes about 2 dozen

You might have to make more than one batch of these. To fill my cookie jar faster than the children ate them, I made four batches of cookies and two batches of the glaze. Notes: 2 cups of flour in high elevation. In times of high humidity, additional powdered sugar may be needed for the glaze