Coffee Bean Cookies

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup ghee or vegetable shortening
• 1/2 cup oil
• 3/4 cup powdered sugar
• 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 1/2 teaspoon instant coffee (Nescafé)
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
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• For more cookies see: Chocolate Mint Cookies
• For more successful desserts from Rasmiyya see: Baklava Fingers

Method

1. Beat the margarine and sugar, then add the oil and cocoa; sprinkle in the Nescafé after grinding it by hand until fine, and continue beating.
2. Gradually add the flour and continue beating until you have a soft dough.
3. Place the coffee cookie dough in the refrigerator for half an hour.
4. After that time, cut it into small rounds approximately the size of an olive or slightly larger.
5. Using a thin wooden stick or a knife, shape the dough pieces to resemble coffee beans by scoring them with the knife as shown in the picture.
6. Place the dough on a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
7. Put the tray into an oven at 170°C on the middle rack for 20 minutes until the cookies are cooked.
8. Allow the coffee cookies to cool completely at room temperature before serving with coffee.
9. Rasmiyah Majdoub
10. For more kinds of cookies, here is the link: Chocolate and Green Mint Cookies
11. For more successful desserts from Rasmiyah, here is: Baklava Fingers