Walnut Coffee Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• Using an electric mixer, beat the butter in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Add the sugar and beat until well blended. Beat in the flour, and then the ground and chopped walnuts. Divide the dough in half, forming each half into a ball. Wrap separately in plastic and chill until cold, about 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
• Working with half of the chilled dough at a time while keeping the rest in the fridge, roll the dough by 2 teaspoonfuls between your palms into balls. Arrange the balls on a large baking sheet, spacing them 1/2-inch apart.
• Bake the cookies until golden brown on the bottom and just pale golden on top, about 18 minutes. Cool the cookies for 5 minutes on the baking sheet. Toss the warm cookies in the powdered sugar. Transfer the sugar-coated cookies to a rack to cool completely. (The cookies can be prepared 2 days ahead. Store in an airtight container at room temperature). Sift additional powdered sugar over the cookies, if desired, before serving.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
• In a medium bowl, stir together the flour, white sugar, brown sugar, and baking soda. Add the egg, vanilla, and butter; mix until dough forms. Stir in the chopped walnuts. Roll dough into 1 inch balls and place 2 inches apart onto the prepared cookie sheets.
• Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, until the edges are golden brown. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

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.

Steps:

• In a small bowl, cream shortening and sugars. Beat in egg and vanilla. In a small bowl, combine the oats, flour, baking soda and salt. Gradually add to the creamed mixture. Stir in walnuts., Drop by tablespoonfuls 3 in. apart onto an ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 350° for 9-11 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Let stand for 2 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

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.