Coffee Bean Cookies

Ingredients

• 1T instant coffee
• 2t milk
• 1c cake flour (or 2T corn starch + 2T short of 1c of all-purpose)
• 2T cocoa powder
• 3T corn starch
• 1/3c unsalted butter (at room temp)
• 1 egg yolk
• 7T powdered sugar

Instructions

1. Microwave the milk for 20sec. Add coffee and whisk until dissolved.
2. In a separate bowl, mix flour, corn starch, and cocoa powder.
3. In a third bowl, whisk the butter until creamy. Add powdered sugar and whisk until combined. Add egg yolk and whisk until creamy.
4. Mix milk-coffee into butter-egg mixture.
5. Mix dry ingredient into wet ingredients until the dough looks like dry crumbs, then press together by hand until the dough is smooth.
6. Roll the dough into a long log. Divide into 1/2in. cubes (about 8g or 1tsp each). Roll each cube into an oval. Press a butter knife or tooth pick into each oval to give the bean its split.
7. Place cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment. Chill in the refrigerator for an hour.
8. Preheat oven to 325ºF.
9. Bake cookies directly from the fridge for 12-14min.
10. Cool for 10min. after baking.

Notes