Christmas cookies with coffee and hazelnuts, soft but also crunchy at the same time, a delightful recipe to bring to the table at Christmas that will especially win over coffee lovers.
Every year at Christmas, in addition to the great classics and essentials like homemade panettone and quick homemade pandoro, I always try to prepare new things and always try to please everyone, like the soft gingerbread cookies, and how can you not love them with their intense scent that smells like Christmas, the butter cookies, simply fantastic, the Christmas bundt cake, I wouldn’t finish listing them all, there are so many. This time, I wanted to please coffee lovers with these delicious coffee and hazelnut cookies.
The ingredients are very simple, it’s a kind of shortcrust pastry flavored with coffee, cinnamon, and chopped hazelnuts that make them truly special and to finish off beautifully, chocolate glaze.
If you too, like me, are coffee lovers, then add them to the list of sweets to make and try them, you’ll see how delicious they are. Let’s see together what we need to make the Christmas coffee and hazelnut cookies.
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- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Cheap
- Rest time: 1 Hour
- Preparation time: 20 Minutes
- Portions: 30 Pieces
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Christmas
Ingredients
SOFT AND CRUNCHY CHRISTMAS COOKIES WITH COFFEE AND HAZELNUTS, FRAGRANT AND ENVELOPING THAT SMELL LIKE CHRISTMAS
- 5.5 oz hazelnuts (chopped)
- 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 5.6 oz butter
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon instant coffee
- milk (if needed)
- hazelnut crumble (as needed)
- 1 egg yolk
- milk (as needed)
- 5.5 oz dark chocolate
Steps
LET’S MAKE THE COOKIES
Make lots of small balls from the dough, brush them with the egg yolk mixed with milk and then dip them in the hazelnut crumble. Bake them at 350°F for about 15 minutes but adjust according to your oven. Melt the dark chocolate and dip half of the cookie in the melted chocolate. Let it dry and enjoy.
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
WHAT CAN I SUBSTITUTE HAZELNUTS WITH?
With almonds or walnuts but their flavor will change
CAN I SUBSTITUTE POWDERED SUGAR WITH BROWN SUGAR?
Yes, and if you like, even with muscovado sugar
