These were a favorite of mine when my grandmother used to make them. I can still see her handwriting as I type this recipe, taking me back to simpler times. These are tiny cookies that resemble cakes and have chocolate frosting. If you prefer nuts, add them if you want to. As delicious as walnuts are, so are pecans or peanuts.
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 2 dozen |
Ingredients
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- ½ cup shortening
- 2 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate, melted
- 1 egg
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 1 cup chopped walnuts (Optional)
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups cake flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
- Cream brown sugar, shortening, melted chocolate, egg and buttermilk.
- Add dry ingredients and beat until smooth.
- Drop onto greased cookie sheet and bake for 12 to 15 minutes. Ice with Chocolate Cookie Buttercream Frosting when still warm but not hot.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 310 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 35 g |
| Cholesterol | 16 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 147 mg |
| Sugars | 19 g |
| Fat | 18 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
So good ! Love the fact that they are not very sweet, you can taste the chocolate and walnut flavors clearly and I like the texture too. They looked like mine chocolate breads – very cute !
We rated this recipe a 4 &1/2 stars because it was good but not sweet. It is good for a dessert. We replaced the walnuts with chocolate chips.
Great cookies, soft and chocolatey. I used Andes candies for the icing.
I chilled it for an hour but would not make again
Delicious. Love both the cookie and frosting!
I will certainly be making this recipe again. I used regular milk and flour and it turned out fine. It lookers a little strange for a cookie and it tastes a bit like a cake, but is yummy for a chocolate lover. I changed the recipe slightly and added 1/4 tsp of mint extract and melted and Andes mint in the top and they turned out incredible.
Yum! Just FYI if you don’t have buttermilk (I didn’t), just do 1/2 c milk (whole or 2% is best) and 1/2 Tbsp lemon juice or vinegar and let it sit for 5min. These cookies are also great with white chocolate chips. Another reviewer said they were “spongy”, but these are drop cookies–they’re supposed to be soft. 🙂
I grew up on these! My kids love them. They are mine and my brother and his daughter’s favorite. They are sort of like a brownie? They are not a crispy on the outside cookie (which is usually myfavorite in any cookie), and they are better the next day. Undercook them.
I hate to say it but this is a ridiculous recipe. Very misleading because the end result is nothing like what the picture promises. The dough wasn’t really dough, just a thick kind of cream. It was sticky too, so there was absolutely no way of giving shape to the cookies. “Drop onto greased cookie sheet” this recipe says. There is no way of doing that and still getting a decent cookie shape. You just get messy piles of… cream. And eventually, piles of airy dough. Because this recipe gives little info, I thought I’d made the dough wrong. So I started over (cost me another 85 minutes) and ended up with the same result. Eventually I just decided to bake part of it. It ended up looking like a small cow pie. Didn’t like the taste of it either. Too airy and not very chocolaty. I added about 1.5 cup of extra flour to the “cream” and baked some decent cookies with that. They taste reasonable. Less airy, still not very chocolaty. The chocolate glaze helps though. I’m definitely not making this one again.
The kids seem to like them. My husband and I found them ok. There are easy to make and I like the fact that the recipe uses ingredients that are not extravagant. Overall, good cookies, that I will definitively try again. By the way: I didn’t melt the chocolate but grated it. Used cream instead of buttermilk (which I didn’t have in the fridge).
Bland is a good word, and it’s a cake-like cookie. I made the batter aspect exactly as it reads but I didn’t make the frosting and didn’t add the walnuts. I baked the first sheet of cookies then decided to add some white choc chips for the next tray that went in. Maybe the walnuts would add the needed texture, but overall, just a bland chocolate cookie.
Tastes ok but very crummbly and more like cake than cookies.
Delicious! I was out of brown sugar so I used sucanat mixed with regular sugar, and cut the total sugar down to 3/4 cup. I also used plain yogurt instead of buttermilk and oil instead of shortnening. Finally, I was low on flour, so I used 1 1/4 cups white, and 1/4 cup whole wheat. The texture of the cookies was silky and thick, and they baked beautifully into cakey cookies. Not too chocolatey, which I liked a lot, and the walnuts were a great addition. I will definitely make these again!
Batter is too runny. Unusable as cookies. Putting it in a loaf pan instead, hoping this runny mixture will somehow work as a cake.
When i melted the chocolate, it hardened right away. Dough was terrible consistancy. I couldnt even bake them
turned out horrible had no shape and tasteless
This recipie isnt anything too special. It’s not very sweet or chocolatey. Not only that, but they look like they’ve been burnt, which is not good. It feels spongy too.
It was OK, definitely not too chocolatey. I added about a 1/4 cup of hershey’s syrup and it made them better. My kids liked them, but only because they were so bland.
Wow!These are amazing! I used all purpose flour instead of cake flour. I also had some whipping cream that needed to be used up so I used that instead of the buttermilk. These taste alot like brownies in a cookie form! If butter was used instead of the shortening they would really taste like brownies! These will become a family favorite for sure! Thanks for sharing this great recipe!
If I could give these 10 stars, I would. These are the absolute best chocolate cookie. I have made them a couple of times and used regular all purpose flour and they still turn out great. Definitely frost with the chocolate butter cream frosting. We love these so much!!!!