Walnut Coffee Cookies
- 2 cups walnuts, coarsely chopped
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 large egg, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 teaspoons ground coffee, finely ground (use the blender to reduce the ground coffee to the proper consistency if needed, you may use less fo)
- 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 350u0b0F.
- 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.
walnuts, flour, baking powder, salt, unsalted butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, ground coffee
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/walnut-coffee-cookies-214671 (may not work)