Miss Awesome and P-with-an-E served these to us with tea after one of those long Sunday lunches that you don’t think about leaving until it’s nearly dark and you have to figure out how you’re going to eat dinner.
Yes, I know, we’ve done the whole espresso deal with our espresso brownies, but who says you can’t make a cookie out of everything? I had to modify the recipe a bit as it involved using a pre-mixed chocolate chip cookie dough as a base, but I think the result is quite good. And I will pass on Miss Awesome’s warning: DO NOT EAT AT BEDTIME!
Preheat your oven to 375°F and cover a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Whisk together in a medium-sized bowl:
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3 tablespoons instant espresso powder
1 tablespoon ground coffee
What I like about mixing dark powders with light powders is that I can easily see how well I’ve mixed the coffee in, so the logic is that if the coffee is well blended then so is the stuff I can’t see, like the baking soda. Of course, if you shoot it in macro, you can see EVERYTHING.
In a large bowl, cream together
1/2 cup butter, softened (That divot is because I stuck my finger in it to check if it was soft. It was.)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1/4 cup Kahlua
Stir the flour mixture into the butter mixture and blend well.
Add in
And because we need a chocolate chip extreme closeup:
Use a tablespoon to plop your dough onto the baking sheet. Space them out as best you can because they will spread quite a bit.
Bake the cookies for 9-12 minutes and leave them on the pan for another five minutes before removing them to a wire rack to cool completely.Then you can eat them. Or just look at them. Or whatever.
Those look simply amazing! I was trying to stay off the coffee, but now that probably won’t last. Love the coffee/tea pot by the way! Fancy.
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One of my Brit friends gave that to me and I love it. Watch out for these cookies. My husband ate too many last night and didn’t sleep much …
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These cookies look great! And anything with Kahlua got my name written all over it. Can’t wait to give them a try.
the wanna be country girl – Caroline
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um, how can you just look at these cookies and not eat them? 😉
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That is the problem!
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