Chocolate Drop Cookies
Source of Recipe
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List of Ingredients
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter or margarine -- softened
1/3 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 ounces unsweetened baking chocolate -- melted and
cooled
1 egg
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped nuts
Chocolate Frosting -- (recipe follows)
CHOCOLATE FROSTING
2 ounces unsweetened baking chocolate
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
2 cups powdered sugar
3 tablespoons hot water
Recipe
Heat oven to 375º. Grease cookie sheet. Beat sugar, butter,
buttermilk, vanilla, chocolate and egg in large bowl with electric
mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in flour, baking soda
and salt. Stir in nuts.
Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto cookie
sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until almost no indentation remains
when touched in center. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to wire
rack. Cool completely. Frost with Chocolate Frosting.
CHOCOLATE FROSTING:
Melt chocolate and butter in 2-quart saucepan over low heat, stirring
occasionally; remove from heat. Stir in powdered sugar and hot water
until smooth and spreadable. (If frosting is too thick, add more
water. If frosting is too thin, add more powdered sugar.)
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