I’m about 100% I couldn’t live without coffee so ultimately anything that includes coffee was made for me!
I really like dessert too so anytime I can combine my two loves, even better! If you like coffee and dessert as much as I do, you’re going to love these cookies
How to Make These French Vanilla Coffee Cookies
The great thing about cookies is that they aren’t difficult to make.
FOR THE COOKIES
1 cup butter soft
1 1/4 cups sugar
2 eggs room temp.
1 TBSP of ground french vanilla coffee
1 1/4 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
FOR THE ICING
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
STEP 1: MAKE THE COOKIES
First, cream together the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl.
In a separate, small bowl, add the eggs, vanilla, and coffee. Mix well until the coffee is fully combined with the eggs.
In a third bowl (I know, ANOTHER dirty dish — maybe save this recipe for a time you need to punish one of the kids with an extra chore) combine all the dry ingredients — the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.
Turn the mixer on low and slowly add the egg mixture to the bowl. If you pour it in all at once, it’s likely to splash out and make a mess.
Once the egg is fully incorporated into the butter mixture, add dry ingredients (slowly again so you don’t have a big mess to clean up). Mix together just until fully combined.
Be careful not to over mix or the cookie will be really dense.
Place the dough in your refrigerator for at least one hour. Two hours is even better.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. While the oven is preheating, roll out the dough on floured solid surface to about 1/2 inch thick.
Use a circle cookie cutter to 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.
STEP 2: MAKE THE ICING
To make the icing that you’ll use to fill the cookie sandwiches with, begin by melting one stick of butter in a small saucepan on low heat.
When the butter is melted, add one cup of brown sugar and 1/3 cup of heavy cream and increase the heat to medium. Stir constantly until the sugar is fully dissolved.
Now add the salt. Make sure to allow it to bubble for 2 minutes.
Remove the saucepan from the heat and allow the mixture to cool completely. This will take at least one hour.
Beat in powdered sugar 1 cup at a time, until you reach desired consistency.
STEP 3: FROST THE COOKIES
Finally, you just need to add the icing to the cookies. You can either smooth a thin layer onto the top of each cookie or slather on a thick layer and make cookie sandwiches.
French Vanilla Coffee Cookies
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
- 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
For the Cookies:
- In a mixer, cream together butter and sugar.
- In a small bowl, combine eggs, vanilla, and coffee. Mix well.
- In another bowl combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.
- Slowly add the egg mixture to the butter mixture. Mix well.
- Slowly add flour mixture to the wet mixture, mixing just until fully combined. Do not over mix.
- Place the dough in your refrigerator for one to 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.
For the Icing:
- 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.
These look delicious and fairly easy to make! May have to try them out!
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Nice Recipe 🙂
These look yummy and change from most cookies with adding the vanilla coffee.
These look delicious! I love French Vanilla coffee, and of course COOKIES, so this looks like a pretty perfect recipe. – Trish
These look incredibly good. I would have never thought to use coffee in a cookie.
These look amazing! I’ll have to try this recipe.
These look yummy!
Katie | Katie Like Me
These look delicious can’t wait to try them
Can’t wait to try these. They look amazing 🙂
I MUST make these – they look delicious! I’m in love with French Vanilla anything. Pinning this post for sure.
These look so delicious Lacey! If I wasn’t on whole 30 I would make these tomorrow. Give me 29 more days and they will be in my kitchen!!!
YUMMM! These look super delicious! My hubby and I are trying to go on a diet, but I might just make an exception to try these! Thanks for sharing! xoxox, Kayla
These sound delicious! I’ll have to try them out sometime. 🙂
Yummy! Those cookies look really good 🙂
Pinning this!! Ever since I got my kitchen aid mixer I am always looking for new recipes to try! This sounds so delicious!
Those look amazing… and perfect! I can imagine that they would go well with an ice cream filling too! Are the cookies themselves crunchy?
These look absolutely amazing! I am a huge french vanilla fan and of course I love cookies. This is perfect for me!
The grandkids would have fun helping construct these cookies.
These look amazing!
Oh my goodness these look so delicious! Thanks for sharing 🙂
I saw this on your instagram and I am totally saving this for when I find some vanilla expresso coffee to use!!
I adore vanilla. Especially French vanilla. I’m pinning this as I have to make them.
I may just have to make these tonight.
Looks delicious, thanks so much for sharing!
I love coffee and I love cookies, so yum!
Yum! They look like they belong behind the counter at a trendy cafe!
These totally blew my mind!!! I want to throw a brunch party and serve these…..
I have been LOVING all of your food posts lately. I’m not a huge coffee drinker (or eater), but this look quite tasty. I have a friend they would be perfect for!
Not only do they sound delicious, they look quite impressive too. These are guest-worthy!
Oh wow, these look fantastic! I love french vanilla coffees 🙂
yum! i love sandwich cookies, such a nice treat
Hi! I am making these right now and noticed the instructions mention cinnamon and salt but neither are listed in the ingredients list. ???
Salt to taste and a teaspoon of cinn sorry I need to update 🙂 Thanks o much for coming by!!
Thank you!! I can’t wait to taste these bad boys!
Hello, I made these today and had to make a few variations… first, thank you for the recipe they are tasty however the 2 cups of flour is NOT enough to form the right consistency for the cookies. The dough was way too sticky. I used another cup plus more for dusting and for the cream center I used a half a cup of light brown sugar and a tad more heavy cream.. it gave it a lighter texture and look and cut some of the sweetness. This was a hit with my family. Yum!
I see it says cinnamon in the instructions but no cinnamon in the actual recipe? Is there cinnamon in this? If so how much?
Hi! Thanks for asking! It looks like the last 2 ingredients got deleted from the ingredient list. You’ll need 1/2 tsp of cinnamon and 1/2 tsp of salt. Fixing the ingredient list now.