Every year I try some new cookie recipes – in addition to the all-time-trusted handed down from my grandma (like these and these and these) and this time, I tried a real winning combination that can’t go wrong: chocolate and coffee. Two of my favourite flavors – how could they not be delicious?!

And they didn’t disappoint. They almost melt on your tongue and if you make small ones, they are the perfect treat – not only for Christmas.

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If you do like chocolate (and be honest, you doesn’t?!), this is for you. They’re really easy and quick to make and you can sneak a little more coffee than usual into your day and we all need this in this time, don’t we?

Chocolate and coffee christmas cookies

Chocolate and coffee christmas cookies

Ingredients

    For the dough:
  • 50 g hazelnuts
  • 1/2 Tbsp Espresso beans
  • 1 Tbsp sugar
  • 200 g flour
  • 40 g cacao powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 225 g butter
  • 125 g powder sugar
  • 1 Tbsp rum
  • For the filling:
  • 200 g chopped dark chocolate
  • 25 g butter
  • 40 ml strong Espresso
  • 150 g cream

Instructions

  1. For the dough blend the nuts, Espresso beans and sugar finely.
  2. Mix the flour, cacao powder, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
  3. Beat the butter with the powder sugar and rum and add the dry ingredients.
  4. Roll the dough in cling film and let it rest in the fridge for 2 hours.
  5. Preheat the oven to 160 degree Celcius
  6. Roll the dough into small balls and place them on a baking tray lined with baking paper.
  7. Bake for 10 - 12 minutes and let them cool on a baking wrack.
  8. For the filling melt the chocolate with the butter in a bowl over a water bath. Pour the Espresso and cream into a pot, heat it and add the chocolate cream. Mix it well.
  9. Let it cool until slightly warm. Put it into a piping bag and pipe it on half of the cookies.
  10. Close the cookies with the other halves. Enjoy!
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I had so much fun shooting this with my mum. Yes, with her. She’s the perfect assistant with a house full of decor kitsch (as my dad calls it). And he – my dad – as a photography equipment little me can only dream off.

Chocolate and coffee christmas cookies | LOOK WHAT I MADE...

Sometimes I wonder what looks good on pictures: it doesn’t always make sense. Like this little golden horse we hung on one of the glasses that reflect the light so perfectly – but what do water glasses do here? Looking pretty, obviously. And pretty doesn’t have to make sense, right?

Chocolate and coffee christmas cookies | LOOK WHAT I MADE...

Chocolate and coffee christmas cookies | LOOK WHAT I MADE...

Now. Carry on!