Great Grandmas Sour Cream Drop Cookies Recipes

GREAT GRANDMA'S SOUR CREAM DROP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line two rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Cream sugar, shortening, and butter together in the bowl of a stand mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 1 minute.
• Mix in sour cream and lemon zest on low speed until no streaks of sour cream remain. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing on medium-low just until there are no streaks of yolk, and scraping down the sides of the bowl between additions. Add flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder all at once and mix just to combine.
• Drop by heaping tablespoons on the prepared baking sheets, about 2 inches apart.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the tops are puffy and spring back when lightly touched with a finger, about 10 minutes. They should be light golden, with occasional spots of pale golden brown.

GRANDMA LEE'S SOUR CREAM COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. set aside
• 2. cream brown sugar and shortening, add sour cream and the egg and beat until well incorporated. add the flour mixture and beat until well blended
• 3. drop by spoonfuls on to cookie sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes, or until light brown in color
• 4. ....... The directions were not included in her recipe so I did it the way I normally would. also there was no measurement for the salt or vanilla so put in what my other cookie recipes called for. I do add more vanilla to anything I bake because I love it so I wrote 1 tsp but I used 3 tsp :-) I also gave the cookie sheets a very light spray of non stick spray.
• 5. cookie icing: mix butter, powdered sugar and vanilla together add hot water a Tsp at a time until the right consistency. add a few drops of food coloring if desired. spread over cooled cookies. This icing hardens a little and adds a very light crunch,

GRANDMA'S SOUR CREAM COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. To a large bowl, add softened butter, sugar, eggs and extract beating until very creamy.
• 2. Sift together dry ingredients and add to the butter mixture, alternating with the sour cream. (add flour until batter is stiff enough to drop by teaspoons, start with 3 cups)
• 3. Drop by teaspoons onto greased cookie sheets. Spinkle with colored sugars. Bake in a 375 oven for approximately 8 to 10 minutes.