No 42 - Coffee Walnut Biscuits

There is a jar of aging instant coffee taking up space on the shelf above our kettle.  Neither of us drink instant coffee, and the only visitor who does (other half''s mother) insists on a particular brand - which isn't this one.  

Not being one to throw anything away unless it poses serious risk to health or digestion, and never having heard of or eaten a coffee flavoured biscuit, I decided a coffee flavoured biscuit was well over-due.

This week's biscuits (see previous post) seemed rich in chocolate (in particular), dried fruit of all kinds (but with a clear preference for cherries), nuts (for England), but no coffee.  So some research was called for.

It's quite simple really - take a basic biscuit recipe (butter, suggar, egg, flour and leavening, and add coffee - and some walnuts, I reckon, because coffee and walnuts go together like.... well like...coffee and walnuts.)


Coffee Walnut Biscuits

150g butter
100g brown sugar
100g golden caster sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
250g flour
75g chopped walnuts
1/4 tsp each baking powder & bicarb soda
2.5 tablespoons instant coffee dissolved in 1 TB hot water and 1 TB milk

Cream butter and sugars, add egg and beat well.  Sift in dry ingredients and add coffee mix, walnuts, and vanilla.  Roll into balls, space out on a baking sheet,  and flatten with the bottom of a glass dipped in sugar.

Bake at 160 degrees C (fan)/ 170-180 degrees C conventional, for 15 minutes.