Saturday, March 19, 2011

Espresso Shortbread Cookies

 

We went to the beach this weekend. I thought long and hard about what cookies to make for the trip. At first I was going to make just classic oatmeal and raisin cookies. They could pass for breakfast cookies. But then I went down the list of my to-bake and saw coffee! Perfect! We wouldn't have time to stop for a coffee. We wouldn't be able to find any coffee on the beach. And because we are city people, we need our coffee.

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Ingredients
  • 2 sticks butter - room temperature
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 cups flour plus more for rolling
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon instant espresso
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract


Directions
  1. With an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar together until light and fluffy - about 3 minutes. Add vanilla extract and coffee. Beat until well combined.
  2. Combine salt and flour together and stir into butter mixture. Stir in ground Chai tea and vanilla extract.
  3. Form a ball from the dough. Wrap in a plastic wrap and refrigerate over night or freeze for 30 minutes.
  4. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Let the dough sit at room temperature for 5 minutes. Roll out the dough on floured surface into about 1/4 inch thick and cut out with cookie cutter.
  5. Bake for 15 minutes. Let cool completely on a cooling rack. Make about 50 cookies.  http://sucheela.blogspot.com/search/label/cookie?updated-max=2008-08-12T00%3A14%3A00-04%3A00&max-results=20 

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