Manny's Coffee Shortbread Cookies

• 1 cup butter
• 34 cup powdered sugar
• 12 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon instant coffee granules
• 1 34 cups flour
• 2 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted

1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
2. Add vanilla.
3. Combine coffee crystals and flour (IMPORTANT), then stir into creamed mixture and mix well.
4. Chill.
5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
6. Shape into 3/4-in.
7. balls and place on ungreased baking sheets.
8. Bake at 350 degrees for 18-20 minutes.
9. Helpful hints: Don't use dark cookie sheets, as the cookie bottoms will burn because these cookies stay in the oven so long.
10. And, yes, do leave them in the oven that long, the cookies should be fairly hard.
11. After removing cookies from oven, melt Ghirardelli semisweet chocolate chips in microwave (see instructions printed on bag).
12. Use a spoon to smooth the melted chocolate over the still-warm cookie tops.

butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, coffee granules, flour, semisweet chocolate chips

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/mannys-coffee-shortbread-cookies-447971 (may not work)