Today's Cookie: Cappuccino Crinkles*
Today's Recipe: Here
Cappuccino Crinkles
Ingredients:
1/3 cup butter (no substitutes), softened
1 cup packed brown sugar
2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 Tbsp. instant coffee granules
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground cinnamon
2 large egg whites
1/3 cup vanilla yogurt
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 Tbsp. instant coffee granules
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground cinnamon
2 large egg whites
1/3 cup vanilla yogurt
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup granulated sugar
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Beat butter in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add the brown sugar, cocoa powder, coffee granules, baking soda, and cinnamon. Beat until combined, scraping sides of the bowl occasionally.
Beat in egg whites and yogurt until combined
Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer. Stir in remaining flour with a wooden spoon.
Place granulated sugar in a small bowl. Drop dough by heaping teaspoons into sugar and roll into balls. Roll again in sugar.
These cookies were a mess. The recipe said to roll them into balls. I tried that. My fingers looked like I was playing in tar pits, so I (with the help of my boyfriend) just spooned them on to the cookie sheets.
Place balls 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until
edges are firm. Transfer cookies to wire racks and cool. Makes about 32 cookies.
edges are firm. Transfer cookies to wire racks and cool. Makes about 32 cookies.
The worst thing about this recipe, as I mentioned on twitter, is that I couldn't lick the dough off my fingers, as I like to do. (Julia Child said it was okay, as long as no one was watching!) The reason behind my not-licking is that I just don't like the taste of coffee grounds. I love coffee, but only with my cream and sugar. Pure grounds are just too much for me.
I didn't really like this cookie. After they were done cooking, I couldn't taste the coffee at all, just the cinnamon. My boyfriend didn't think that they were too bad, but I'm beginning to think that he'll eat just about anything I put in front of him...and I mean anything.
Recipe Yield: 32
My Yield: 34
*or as I like to call them, "Shiny Poopies"
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This is a very similar recipe, but with some key differences: http://books.google.com/books?id=lkUQtsvFz2YC&lpg=PA66&ots=faExfKJKLw&dq=%22mocha%20latte%20crinkles%22&pg=PA66#v=onepage&q=%22mocha%20latte%20crinkles%22&f=false
I've made them a bunch of times with success!
(and I found that if you use espresso powder instead of instant coffee crystals, it dissolves better & gives a better coffee flavor in the finished product!)
Also, this is my favorite cookie cookbook. Mine is covered in post-it flags & places where I've crossed stuff out or added stuff in, but it looks like most, if not all of the book is available for viewing here: http://books.google.com/books?id=lkUQtsvFz2YC&lpg=PA1&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q=&f=false