Double Dark Chocolate Sour Cream Cookies
If the title of this post doesn’t send you scurrying into the kitchen for your cookie sheets, I don’t know what will!
This week I am making steak tacos with red cabbage slaw and Joe likes to slap some sour cream onto his. The downside to this is, our grocery store only sells the larger size tub of organic sour cream and we never seem to use it up before it goes bad. Check out this article on why you should always purchase local, organic dairy products.
My determination to find a way to use up that extra sour cream was the inspiration for this super delicious cookie recipe. Using unrefined sugars, spelt flour and coconut oil makes this a keeper for those looking to avoid processed ingredients.
Here we go!
Whisk together the spelt flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking powder and set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, using a mixer, combine the coconut oil and sugars. The coconut oil should be liquid, which is easy when the weather is humid. Mine has been liquid all summer:)
Add the sour cream into the sugar/coconut oil and combine well. Then, bit by bit, add in the flour mixture, until it is all blended.
This cookie dough is incredibly good. I kept dipping my finger in ‘to test’ out the flavours and found it hard to stop:) I moved onto the beaters, which brought me back to my childhood. When my mom would bake, one of us kids would get to lick the beaters, one would get the spoon and one would get the bowl. Well, in my kitchen today it was just me and the cat so all the utensils were mine to lick clean. And trust me, they were sparkling!
I poured in some dark chocolate chips for good measure.
I baked these in 2 batches with 8 scoops of batter on each cookie sheet.
Crisp on the outside and chocolatey with a hint of tanginess from the sour cream in the middle. It was a winning combination. I will have to use all my will power to not eat the majority of this batch of cookies. I have a feeling I will be packing these to work with me tomorrow for my lucky, lucky co-workers:)
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Double Dark Chocolate Sour Cream Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups spelt flour
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp sea salt
- ½ cup coconut oil liquid
- ¾ cup organic cane sugar
- ½ cup turbinado sugar
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 and line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper
- In a medium sized bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, sea salt and baking powder and set aside
- In a large bowl, using a mixer, combine coconut oil with the sugars
- Add in the sour cream and vanilla and continue mixing
- Slowly, add in the flour mixture and mix until well combined
- Stir in the chocolate chips
- With a small scoop, scoop out dough onto cookie sheets leaving 2 inches between each. I fit 8 on each cookie sheet
- Bake for 15-18 minutes, rotating cookie sheets halfway through
- Place first batch on a wire rack and re-line the cookie sheets with parchment paper
- Repeat with the second batch
Oh my these look SO good! I love that you used spelt flour in them too 🙂
I really like these cookies! They taste great out of the fridge…
Now this is my kind of cookie! I never bake with butter so I love that you used coconut oil. I’ve been experimenting with coconut sugar (which I think is similar to turbinado?) and haven’t had good luck but I’m sure mixing it with regular sugar helps.
Great way to use the extra sour cream. That is a drawback to organic diary- you have to use it up fast but I think it’s worth it!
Hey Sarah! The turbinado is a good sub for brown sugar. It’s a little coarser than coconut sugar and good for baking.
Ditto on the organic dairy! Well worth it:)
What organic cane sugar do you use and where do you get it? I tried to get some for the frozen yogurt bites but found there were 2 products to choose from and neither were labelled organic cane sugar. I can’t remember what I ended up buying but wasn’t confident it was what you called for in the recipe. Thanks,
Hi Wendy! I use a President’s Choice Organics Brand. It comes in a container that looks like a milk carton. It says Sugar from crystallized organic cane syrup on the front and it should be in the aisle with the regular sugars. You can also buy it at the Bulk Barn. It will be labelled organic cane sugar.
Thanks Sharon! I will definitely check out the PC Brand.