Coffee Bean Cookies
Recipe for Coffee Bean Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour 140 grams
- pinch salt
- pinch baking powder
- 1/8 tsp ground cinnamon optional
- 1/3 cup unsalted butter at room temperature 72-75 grams
- ½ cup powdered sugar 65 grams
- 1 egg yolk
- ½ tsp Vanilla Extract
- 3 tbsp dark unsweetened cocoa powder 22 grams
- 1 ½ tbsp hot water or milk
- 1 tbsp instant coffee for more intense coffee flavor, use espresso powder
- 1 tablespoon= 15 ml, 1 teaspoon is 5ml
Instructions
Cookie Dough
- Preheat the oven to 340℉F (170℃).
- Pour instant coffee or espresso powder (1 tablespoon) into a shallow dish with hot water or milk (1 tablespoon and ½ tablespoon). Allow to dissolve and let cool.
- Into a bowl, add flour (1cup, 140 grams), salt (a pinch), baking powder (a pinch), and ground cinnamon (1/8 teaspoon).
- In a bowl on medium-high speed, beat butter (1/3 cup, 72-75 grams) with powdered sugar (1/2 cup, 65 grams) with a hand-held mixer until creamy, about 2 minutes. Add 1 egg yolk and continue beating. Gradually beat in cooled dissolved coffee and Vanilla Extract (1/2 teaspoon). Sift cocoa powder (3 tablespoons, 22 grams) over the butter mixture and beat on medium-low speed until well combined. Scrape down the bowl.
- Gradually in 2-3 additions, sift flour mixture over butter mixture. Beat on low speed until cookie dough starts to come together.
- Gather dough into a disk.
Shape Coffee Beans
- Roll it out to ¼ inch thick. Cut about 1-inch strips. And then cut each strip into ½ inch pieces.
- In the palm of your hands, shape each little piece into a football-shaped cookie. Place it onto a baking sheet lined with parchment. While you are shaping the remaining cookies, cover the shaped pieces with a food wrap, so they don’t crust.
- Make shallow cuts into each cookie. You can use a knife or fold a piece of aluminum foil, shape it into a “s” shape, and make the cuts into the shaped cookies. Don’t cut the cookies too deep.
Bake
- Bake cookies for 7-9 minutes. Larger cookies will need extra baking time.