I originally planned to post a bread recipe today. But then, it suited well for a theme next week, so scheduled it to be used later. So, now i had to bake a quick recipe for the bake-a-thon. I remembered bookmarking lot of cookies recipe, so i searched my bookmarks and baked this quick coffee cookies for our evening coffee time. It takes 30 minutes from start to finish. We are coffee lovers so we loved the flavor in the cookie too, if you don't prefer coffee, try cinnamon/saffron/cardamom or just use a mix of these spices. Whatever be the flavors, you are definitely going to love these crispy cuties and also they make a wonderful gift this festive season.
Inspired from here
Ingredients
1 Cup Whole Wheat flour (I used normal Chapathi flour)
5 tablespoon butter
1- 2 teaspoon Instant coffee powder ( i used Nescafe Gold)
2 teaspoon hot water
¼ cup Sugar
¼ teaspoon Baking powder
Method
- Mix hot water with instant coffee and let it rest for 2-3 minutes. Sift together Wheat flour and baking powder.
- In a bowl, cream butter and sugar until soft and fluffy. You can use your electrical whisk or use a fork like me, which gives a nice workout to your triceps :).
- Personally i loved using the fork, after learning how to make the cream fluffy in a cake decoration class last year, its been long since i put that technique to use. Just repeat, press and fold and you will feel the butter becoming light and fluffy.
- Once it is light and puffy, add the coffee decotion to this and mix. Next add the flour in two batches. Use your hands to knead a soft dough. I used a teaspoon more of water, so my dough was a bit more loose. So i rested it in the fridge for 10 minutes. If u have used right amount of water, and dough is soft and stiff, go on and roll them into cookies.
- Preheat the oven to 180C. Take the dough out of the fridge, pinch out small balls out of the dough, flatten them in between your palm and place on them on a greased cookie- tray. Mark a design using the fork or knife.
- Bake the cookies for about 18-20 minutes or until the edges turn brown. Take them out of the oven, let them cool completely on a wire-rack. Store it in an Air-tight container.
This is part of the Bake-a-thon 2015
Nalini's Kitchen
Simple yet flavorful and healthy cookies..
Pavani
Wow, coffee flavored cookies -- they sound delicious. Will have to try these for my coffee loving husband.
Rafeeda AR
These are just too good to resist... and that too with aatta... bookmarked!
Priya Suresh
Scrumptious they are, coffee flavored cookies makes me drool..am in love with this cookies.
Sowmya :)
We are coffee lovers to the core....this sounds like a delicious coffee cookie!
cookingwithsapana
Coffee flavored cookies looks amazing.
Chef Mireille
edible gifts are the best - I wouldnt mind to receive these = looks delicious
MySpicyKitchen
Wow? Coffee cookies sound great. I am sure these would taste great even with other flavors.
Srivalli
Priya those cookies look so good..now I am worried about the number of bookmarked dishes..:(
Richa Sharma
Hi,
In your recipe you are not using baking powder anywhere, can you tell me why have you mentioned it in ingredients?
I made these biscuits yesterday, although flavor was good - but not that crispy, specially from centre. I baked them at 165 degree for 20minutes, and I had put the amount of baking powder mentioned in the ingredients too.
Priya_Srinivasan
Hi richa, i have used baking powder and have mentioned in the first step to be sifted with the flour. You have mentioned that you have baked at 165? i have mentioned 180 in my recipe.
If the cookies were soft in the center, they might have needed 2 more minutes in the oven. Oven temperature varies from oven to oven and so is the baking time. Hope this helps.
Richa Sharma
Ok, thanks I will try with 180 degree for 20m, for next time. Thanks
Priya_Srinivasan
thank you richa. You can continue to bake at 165, but increase time to 22 minutes instead of 20. let me know how the cookies turned out.:)