Name: Quick and Easy Sour Cream Cookies Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 18
Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter; 1 1/4 cup sugar; 2 eggs; 2 3/4 cups flour; 1/2 teaspoon baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1 cup Prairie Farms sour cream; 1 teaspoon vanilla; Optional: Red Hot Candies

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One of our favorite cookies has always been sour cream cookies. Of course, these are right behind snickerdoodle cookies, which, as far as I’m concerned win for best cookies ever.

However, these sour cream cookies are a really close second.

For as long as I can remember I’ve used my Grandma’s sour cream cookies recipe.

For years I’ve had a gallon-sized ziplock bag packed with Grandma’s handwritten recipes bumbling around the house.

Sometimes I’ll find the bag in the pantry, another time forgotten and buried under piles of paper on my desk, other times tucked in an available spot on the bookcase.

It never fails when I want to dig through her recipes I have to first find where I last left that gallon-sized bag.

I always think that someday I’ll get them all transferred to digital or put them all in a cookbook.

However, I kinda like holding the stained and slightly beaten recipe cards in my hands.

It’s a bit like holding onto the past and remembering the few good times with Grandma (yeah, lots to unpack there, but that’s for another day — lol).

This recipe never disappoints. I make it a couple times a year and the only thing I’ve ever changed is reducing the sugar by about a 1/4 cup. I may reduce it another 1/4 cup, but I’ll have to give that a try before officially changing up the recipe.