COFFEE BREAK; COOKIES

They're is more than one way for coffee breaks...Take 'em to work, give to your coffee drinking friends, only one, more for you. (Lift your depressions with coffee not sodas which is 4 times as bad for all of us.)

Coffee Walnut Cookies

 

Ingredients;

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 cup walnut halves
• 3/4 cup of sugar * or less, 1/2 honey makes them moist
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 2 tsp fresh ground coffee beans (medium roast)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 sticks salted butter

or add pecans instead of walnuts

Procedures

1. 1st
   Combine the flour, walnuts, sugar and salt in the bowl of a food processor and pulse until the walnuts are finely ground. Add the ground coffee and pulse to mix. Add the butter (cut in several pieces if firm) and pulse until the mixture looks damp and crumbly. Drizzle in (the brandy flavoring is optional) and/or vanilla extract and pulse until the dough begins to clump up around the blade. Remove the dough, press it into a ball and knead it by hand a few times to complete the mixing.
2. 2nd
   Form the dough into a 12-inch log about 2 inches in diameter. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or preferably, overnight, or up to 3 days. The dough can also be frozen for up to 3 months. Brings out the flavors.
3. 3rd
   Position the racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and heat the oven to 350 degrees. Use a sharp knife to cut the cold dough log into one-fourth-inch-thick slices. (If the dough crumbles when you cut into it, let it soften for several minutes.) Place the cookies at least 1 inch apart on silicone-lined baking sheets. Press a coffee bean into the center of each cookie.
4. 4th
   Bake the cookies 150 f. until light golden brown at the edges, 12 to 15 minutes, rotating the sheets from top to bottom and front to back halfway through the baking. Let the cookies firm up on the pans for about 1 minute, then transfer them to a rack with an off-set spatula.
5. Cool completely. These cookies are delicious fresh but are even better the next day. They can be stored in an airtight container for at least a month.
6. When cutting some of the sugar: add sprinkled powdered sugar then the bean as a topping for company?
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