In response to our invitation to our readers to share favorite holiday recipes, Peg Ackerman sent this special cookie recipe. Gather the ingredients and enjoy a baking experience. Make extra to share with family, friends, and neighbors. Your holiday gift giving will be easy and delicious. Thanks, Peg, for sharing your recipe and your fond memories of Christmas with Mema.

Here’s a fave at our house:

Mema’s Cookies
From the Ackerman Outpost Kitchen ~ December 2008

1 tsp vanilla 1 egg
½ C butter 3 ~ 1 ounce squares unsweetened chocolate (melted)
1 ¾ C flour ½ tsp baking soda
1/8 tsp salt ¾ C fresh sour cream
1 C brown sugar
1 can milk chocolate frosting
Candy sprinkles

Cream butter & sugar until fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Stir in melted chocolate. In a separate bowl, sift dry ingredients together. Add dry ingredients to chocolate mixture alternating with sour cream. Mix well. Drop from teaspoon* on lightly greased cookie sheet (or, line cookie sheet with parchment paper). Bake at 350° for 11 – 14 minutes. Frost with canned frosting and decorate with little sprinkles. Makes 3 to 4 dozen cookies, depending on the teaspoon!

*I use the small scoop from Williams-Sonoma (it looks like an ice cream scoop and the scoop is the size of a melon ball).

Mema was my grandmother (my father’s mom). Her real name was Ann Bond. She brought “Mema’s Cookies” each Christmas! Enjoy! ~ peg ackerman

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