French Vanilla Coffee Cookies

If you love vanilla and coffee, you are going to flip out when you taste these delicious French Vanilla Coffee Cookies. Made with real vanilla and French Vanilla Coffee, they taste like you spent hours on them! No one else needs to know how easy it is to make these cookies. We’ll keep it our little secret.

French Vanilla Coffee Cookies

Ingredients

1 cup butter soft
1 1/4 cups  sugar
2 eggs room temp.
1 TBSP of ground French vanilla coffee
1 1/4 t vanilla (not artificial!)
2 cups flour
1/2 tea baking powder

Instructions

In a mixer, cream together butter and sugar

In a small bowl, combine eggs, vanilla, and coffee. Mix thoroughly.

In another bowl add all dry items together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt

Begin to slowly add the egg mixture to the butter mixture.

Mix well Slowly add flour mixture until fully combined, do not over mix.

Place the dough in your refrigerator for at least one-two hours.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Roll out dough on floured solid surface to about 1/2 inch thick. Using a circle cookie cutter, punch out circles and place on a parchment lined baking sheet

Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until edges are slightly golden

Allow cookies to cool completely before filling with the icing

Icing Ingredients

1/2 cup (1 stick) salted butter
1 cup dark brown sugar
1/3 cup heavy cream
1/4 tsp salt
2-3 cups powdered sugar, sifted

Icing Instructions

Melt the butter in a small saucepan on low heat.

Once the butter is melted, add brown sugar and heavy cream.

Stir the mix constantly over medium heat until sugar is dissolved.

Now add the salt. Make sure to allow it to bubble for 2 minutes.

Remove from heat and allow to cool( 1 hour minimum).

Beat in powdered sugar 1 cup at a time, until you reach desired consistency.

Spread between cookies with Wilton Dessert Decorator Pro or other icing gun. (You can use a knife to spread, but they will not look like this. This decorator is for cupcakes, too, and you’ll love the way your desserts look!)

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French Vanilla Coffee Cookie

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Author Kelly Stilwell

Ingredients

• Cookies
• 1 cup butter soft
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 2 eggs room temp.
• 1 TBSP of ground french vanilla coffee
• 1 1/4 tea vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 tea baking powder
• Icing Ingredients
• 1/2 cup 1 stick salted butter
• 1 cup dark brown sugar
• 1/3 cup heavy cream
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 2-3 cups powdered sugar sifted

Instructions

• Cookie Instructions
• In a mixer, cream together butter and sugar
• Small bowl, combine eggs, vanilla, and coffee mix fully
• In another bowl add all dry items together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt
• Begin to slowly add the egg mixture to the butter mixture.
• Mix well Slowly add flour mixture until fully combined, do not over mix.
• Place the dough in your refrigerator for at least one-two hours.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Roll out dough on floured solid surface to about 1/2 inch thick. Using a circle cookie cutter, punch out circles and place on a parchment lined baking sheet
• Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until edges are slightly golden
• Allow cookies to cool completely before filling with the icing
• Icing Instructions
• Melt the butter in a small saucepan on low heat. Once the butter is melted, add brown sugar and heavy cream. Stir the mix constantly over medium heat until sugar is dissolved. Now add the salt. Make sure to allow it to bubble for 2 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool( 1 hour minimum). Beat in powdered sugar 1 cup at a time, until you reach desired consistency.

Looking for more decadent desserts? Check out these Samoa Cookie Cupcakes or these Mocha Coffee Cupcakes!