Recipe: Delicious Grandma's Coffee Cookies

Grandma's Coffee Cookies.

You can have Grandma's Coffee Cookies using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Grandma's Coffee Cookies

1. Prepare of cookie batter ingredients.
2. You need 2 cups of brown sugar.
3. It's 1 cup of cold espresso or strong coffee.
4. It's 2 of eggs.
5. It's 2 tsp of baking powder.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of baking soda.
7. You need 3 1/2 cups of all purpose flour.
8. Prepare 1 cup of shortening.
9. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
10. It's pinch of salt.
11. It's of frosting ingredients.
12. Prepare 3 tbs of flavored coffee creamer or half and half.
13. It's 1 1/4 cups of powdered sugar.

Grandma's Coffee Cookies step by step

1. Combine espresso and baking soda, let stand.
2. In a small bowl, combine flour, salt, and baking powder.
3. In a large bowl, cream brown sugar and shortening.
4. Blend egg and vanilla into creamed sugar mix until well blended.
5. Add coffee to mix continuing to blend until smooth.
6. Slowly add flour mixture until well blended..
7. Drop mixture by spoonful onto a cookie sheet.
8. Bake at 360 for 8-10minutes.
9. Cool completely on a cooling rack before icing.
10. In a small bowl blend coffee creamer or half and half with powdered sugar until creamy. If mix is too thick add small amounts of creamer until desired consistency. If too thin add small amounts of powdered sugar until desired consistency..
11. Ice cooled cookies. Store in an airtight container with wax paper separating layers of cookies..