Walnut Coffee Cookies Recipes

WALNUT COFFEE COOKIES

Steps:

• Combine 1 1/4 cups of the walnuts, the flour, baking powder, and salt in a food processor.
• Pulse the machine repeatedly until the nuts are chopped into very fine pieces.
• Set aside.
• Finely chop the remaining nuts by hand and set them aside in a small bowl.
• Using an electric mixer, cream the butter until smooth, gradually adding the sugar. Beat in the egg, then stir in the vanilla and coffee.
• Add the dry mixture to the creamed ingredients, stirring the dough with a wooden spoon until evenly combined.
• Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
• Adjust one oven rack so it is in the center position.
• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Get out 1 or 2 large baking sheets and butter them lightly or line with parchment.
• Pinch off pieces of dough and roll into balls 1 1/4-inches in diameter.
• Roll in the finely chopped nuts and place on the cookie sheet/s, leaving a little room between them.
• Bake -- one sheet at a time -- for 16 to 18 minutes, until firm to the touch.
• Cool briefly on the sheet, then transfer to a cooling rack to finish cooling. Store in an airtight container.

COFFEE & WALNUT CREAM COOKIES (BISCUITS)

Steps:

• Sift flour into a medium bowl. Using only fingertips, rub in butter. Mix should look like fine breadcrumbs. Stir in sugar, vanilla and egg.
• Knead dough on floured surface until smooth. Divide dough into 2. Roll one half between 2 sheets of baking paper until 3mm thick. Repeat with 2nd half. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 180 Deg C, 356 Deg F. Grease & line trays with baking paper.
• Use the round cutter to cut out 36 cookies. Place on trays and bake for around 12 minutes. Cool on wire racks. Make butter cream.
• When cool sandwich cookies together with walnut butter cream and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Make coffee icing.
• Spread the top of each cookie with icing and top with a walnut half.
• Butter Cream: Using an electric mixer and a small bowl, beat butter and sifted icing sugar until light and fluffy. Combine cocoa, coffee and water then beat into mix. Stir in walnuts.
• Coffee Icing: Sift icing sugar into a small heatproof bowl. Combine coffee and water then stir into sugar. Add butter. Place bowl over saucepan of simmering water and stir until icing is glossy and spreadable.