Chocolate Chipless Cookie Recipe

You will love Grandma's old fashioned chocolate chipless cookie recipes. Nothing tastes better than a plateful of freshly baked chocolate cookies. Just imagine the aroma of chocolate wafting throughout your kitchen.

You can make homemade chocolate cookies that everyone will rave about. These are the real deal without chocolate chips. However, be prepared to bake a big batch, as they won't last long! Nobody can resist eating them!

Close your eyes right now and try to imagine how good they will taste. Come on. Indulge yourself. Bake a batch of cookies tonight.

Mom's Old Fashioned Chocolate Chipless Cookie Recipes

Mom's Recipe Scrapbooks (c. 1920s)

Homemade Chocolate CookiesYou Will Love These Old Time Chocolate Cookies
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Mom loved a good old fashioned chocolate cookie recipe, especially when it was one of Grandma's favorites.

Chocolate chips hadn't been invented when these "chipless" recipes were popular in farm kitchens. Chips were only created with the invention of chocolate chip cookies by Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1936.

These old fashioned chocolate cookies are easy to make, and they always turn out delicious. They are cock full of natural chocolatey flavor. Who wants one? Better make some tonight!

Chocolate Drop Cookies

2 cups sifted cake flour, 1/2 teaspoon soda, dash of salt, 1/2 cup butter, or other shortening, 2/3 cup brown sugar firmly packed, 1 egg well beaten, 3 squares Baker's unsweetened chocolate, melted, 1/2 cup milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1/2 cup walnut meats, broken.

Sift flour once, measure, add soda and salt, and sift together twice. Cream butter thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy.

Add egg and beat well. Add chocolate and blend. Add flour, alternately with milk, a small amount at a time. Beat after each addition until smooth. Add vanilla and nuts.

Drop from teaspoon on greased baking sheet and bake in moderate oven (350ºF) about 7 minutes. Frost with chocolate butter frosting, if desired. Makes about 50 cookies!

Oatmeal and Chocolate Drop Rosettes

1 cup molasses, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup shortening, 1/4 cup boiling water, 1 cup raisins, 1 cup flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon soda, 2 cups oatmeal, 1 cup natural bran, 1/2 cup powered chocolate, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoons vanilla.

Cream sugar and shortening. Add molasses, hot water and soda, salt, bran, oatmeal, and chocolate. Beat in eggs. Sift flour and baking powder. Dredge raisins with a little flour and stir the mixture thoroughly.

Drop by spoonfuls on a greased tin. Bake (350°F) for 10 to 12 minutes.

Chewy Chocolate Drops

Combine 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk with 3 tablespoons cocoa, 1/4 teaspoon salt; add 1 cup finely shredded coconut and 1/4 cup chopped Brazil or almond nutmeats.

Mix, and drop from teaspoon on cookie sheet. Bake in slow oven, 300°F, 10 minutes; remove from sheet at once. Makes 3 dozen.

Pecan Chocolate Wafers

Two eggs, 6 tablespoons flour, 1/4 cup cocoa, 3/4 cup sugar, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1 cup chopped pecan nuts (or peanuts may be used, if preferred).

Beat eggs well. Then beat in sugar and cocoa mixed. Fold in flour and salt sifted, tablespoonful at a time. Add nuts.

Drop by teaspoonful on buttered tin, placing a half pecan on top of each. Bake in a moderate oven (350°F) for 15 minutes. Remove from tin immediately after taking from the oven.

Old Fashioned Chocolate Chipless Cookie Recipes

Second Edition of the Neighborhood Cook Book (1914)

Special Chocolate Cookies

The SPECIAL ingredient is WHISKEY!

One cup brown sugar, one cup white sugar, three sticks chocolate, one tablespoon whiskey, four eggs, three cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon each of all kinds of spices.

Beat the yolks of the eggs with the sugar. Add chocolate, whiskey, spices, and then the flour, and last the beaten whites over which the baking powder has been sifted.

When stiff enough to roll, brush tops of cookies with beaten egg. Bake at 350°F.

Chocolate Brandy Cookies

Yes, it's the flavor of BRANDY that makes these cookies so good!

Two eggs, not separated (beat light), one cup dark-brown sugar, one-half glass brandy, one-half teaspoon cinnamon, a little allspice, about four tablespoons chocolate, one teaspoon baking powder, one-half cup flour, salt; raisins, nuts, and citron, about a cup. Bake 350°F, about twenty minutes.

Easy Chocolate Macaroons

Three whites of eggs, beaten stiff; add slowly three-fourths cup sugar, and one cup grated chocolate; one cup walnuts, chopped. Drop from a spoon on buttered pan, and bake slowly (325°F), about twenty minutes.

Old Fashioned Chocolate Chipless Cookie Recipes

The Perry Home Cook Book (1920)

Iced Chocolate Cookies

2 cups sugar; 2 eggs; 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in 1/2 cup warm water; 1 cup grated chocolate; 1/2 cup butter; 1/2 cup lard. Melt lard, butter, and chocolate.

When cool add to sugar and eggs. Flour enough to stiffen. Roll thin. When baked (350°F), ice with white cookie icing. —Mrs. Arthur Michael

Chocolate Wafer Cookies

4 eggs; 1 cup sugar; 1 cup butter; 3 squares unsweetened chocolate; 3 cups flour; 1/2 teaspoon vanilla flavor. Flour sufficient to roll very thin. (350°F.) —Sylvia Douglas, Oskaloosa, Kans.

Old Fashioned Chocolate Chipless Cookie Recipe

Recipes Tried and True (1894)

Chocolate Macaroons

One cake German sweet chocolate, one egg, one cup sugar, one-half cup milk, one lump butter size of a walnut. Drop from a spoon on buttered pan, and bake slowly (300°F) about twenty minutes in oven. —Mrs. Eckhart

Old Fashioned Chocolate Chipless Cookie Recipes

The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1916)

Fannie Farmer was maybe the most famous cookbook author of her day when she published these old fashioned chocolate chipless cookie recipes. Being Farmer's, they are GOOD cookies!

Chocolate Butter Cookies

1/2 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 2 oz Baker's chocolate, 2-1/2 cups flour (scant), 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1/4 cup milk.

Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, egg well beaten, salt, and chocolate melted. Beat well, and add flour mixed and sifted with baking powder alternately with milk.

Chill, roll very thin, then shape with a small cutter, first dipped in flour, and bake in a moderate oven (350°F).

German's Chocolate Cookies

An English immigrant named Samuel German, a Walter Baker & Company employee, invented "German's Sweet Chocolate" back in 1852. German's is a trademark of General Foods Corp.

2 eggs, 1 cup brown sugar, 2 bars German's Sweet Chocolate, 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon salt, grated rind 1/2 lemon, 1-1/3 cups almonds (blanched and chopped), 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder.

Beat eggs until light, add sugar, gradually, and continue the beating; then add chocolate, grated, and remaining ingredients. Drop from tip of spoon on a buttered sheet, and bake in a moderate oven (350°F).

Chocolate Fruit Cookies

1/4 cup butter, 1/2 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons grated chocolate, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon boiling water, 1 egg, 1/2 cup nutmeats finely chopped, 1/2 cup seeded raisins finely chopped, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder.

For this old fashioned chocolate chipless cookie recipe, cream the butter and add sugar, gradually. Melt chocolate, add remaining sugar and water, and cook one minute.

Combine mixtures, and add remaining ingredients. Chill, shape, and bake same as Chocolate Cookies (350°F).

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