How to Prepare Tasty Grandma's Coffee Cookies

Grandma's Coffee Cookies.

You can cook Grandma's Coffee Cookies using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Grandma's Coffee Cookies

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

Grandma's Coffee Cookies instructions

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..