Walnut Coffee Cookies

Total Time: 37 mins Preparation Time: 2 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups walnuts, coarsely chopped
• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 large egg, at room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 4 teaspoons ground coffee, finely ground (use the blender to reduce the ground coffee to the proper consistency if needed, you may use less fo)

Recipe

• 1 combine 1 1/4 cups of the walnuts, the flour, baking powder, and salt in a food processor.
• 2 pulse the machine repeatedly until the nuts are chopped into very fine pieces.
• 3 set aside.
• 4 finely chop the remaining nuts by hand and set them aside in a small bowl.
• 5 using an electric mixer, cream the butter until smooth, gradually adding the sugar. beat in the egg, then stir in the vanilla and coffee.
• 6 add the dry mixture to the creamed ingredients, stirring the dough with a wooden spoon until evenly combined.
• 7 cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
• 8 adjust one oven rack so it is in the center position.
• 9 preheat the oven to 350°f.
• 10 get out 1 or 2 large baking sheets and butter them lightly or line with parchment.
• 11 pinch off pieces of dough and roll into balls 1 1/4-inches in diameter.
• 12 roll in the finely chopped nuts and place on the cookie sheet/s, leaving a little room between them.
• 13 bake -- one sheet at a time -- for 16 to 18 minutes, until firm to the touch.
• 14 cool briefly on the sheet, then transfer to a cooling rack to finish cooling. store in an airtight container.