I sure do love SOUR CREAM

I don't know if I had ever had cookies with sour cream in them or not but I got this wild idea to see what I could find. I was surprised at how many recipes I came across. I modified this one to be uniquely mine and have gotten rave reviews.


I don't like nuts in my cookies as a rule so i substituted more candy chips...success! And the really fun part is that you can trade off on your chocolate to butterscotch to peanut butter to white chocolate, well you get the idea :) And I also traded regular sour cream for it's low fat sister. Let me know what your favorite cookie/candy piece combination turns out to be :)

Oh So Yummy Sour Cream Chocolate Chip Cookies

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

½  teaspoon salt

¾ cup margarine

1 cup granulated sugar

½ cup firmly-packed light brown sugar

1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

2 large eggs

½ cup low fat sour cream

12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips

6 ounces white chocolate chips

1.      Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. 

2.      Sift together flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.

3.      In a mixing bowl, beat butter, sugars and vanilla until creamy. Add eggs and beat until combined. Add sour cream and mix until blended.

4.       With mixer running, slowly add dry ingredients, beating until thoroughly combined. Stir in chopped nuts and chocolate.

5.      Drop by tablespoonfuls onto baking sheets.

6.      Bake 12-15 minutes at 375 degrees F, or until cookies turn pale golden around edges.

7.      Remove baking sheet from oven.

8.      Allow cookies to rest for 1-2 minutes, then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.

Yield: approximately 40 cookies

Have you ever?

have you ever just typed in "cookies" into Google? I did this just the other day and boy did I find some interesting recipies. I even found a recipe for cookies for your dog! I laughed and scrolled on down. But I did find some recipies taht had me drooling onto my keyboard. I went home and whipped a batch of these that very evening :)

I'm calling them"

Ooey - Gooey Chocolate Chip Chocolate Buttermilk-esk Cookies
* I get to change the name because I modified the recipe to suit  me *

1 tsp lemon juice
1 Cup - 1 tsp milk
2 Cup flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 Cup margerine
3/4 Cup cocoa powder

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 Cup sugar

1 Cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

#1) Put lemon juice in a 1 Cup measure and fill to the top with milk; let stand for 5 min.

#2) Sift together flour, soda and salt; set aside.

#3) Melt margerine over medium heat until melted. Remove from heat and whisk in cocoa powder until smooth. Add sugar, vanilla and 2/3 Cup of milk mixture.

#4) Whisk in flour mixture until no white streaks show.

#5) Stir in chocolate chips.

#6) Drop in 1 inch sized “dollups” on an lightly greased cookie sheet about 2 inches from each other.

#7) Bake for 9-10 minutes.

#8) Let stand for several minutes and transfer to cooling rack.

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~ What the lemon juice and milk combined together does is makes a buttermilk substitute. I NEVER have buttermilk on hand so I came across this handy “cheater”. I even did the math to see how to make 2/3 Cup of buttermilk:

There are 48 tsp/1 Cup

We need 2/3 Cup

2/3 = 0.66

0.66 x 48 = 31.68

n = amount of lemon juice needed

n/31.68 = 1/48

48n = 31.68

n = 0.66

0.66 = 2/3

  So what we have learned is that we need 2/3 tsp of lemon juice and 2/3 cup  - 2/3 tsp milk to equal 2/3 Cup “buttermilk”… OR you can do it the easy way that I listed in the recipe and just dispose of the other 1/3 Cup of milk, OR you could even use buttermilk itself….

~ I think next time I’m going to use white chocolate chips because they will be pretty

Of course it wasn't until AFTER I had baked them all up that I realized that this recipe does NOT call for eggs and guess what that means...It's safe to eat the dough!