Coffee Spice Cookies

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 350 g flour
• 60 g cocoa powder
• 250 g dark couverture or dark chocolate with 60 – 70% cocoa content
• 350 g brown cane sugar
• 120 g butter, soft
• 80 ml milk
• 1 tsp instant coffee powder
• 2 tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1 tsp gingerbread spice or speculatius spice
• 2 large eggs
• 100 g sugar (finest)
• 50 g powdered sugar

Instructions

Working time approx. 40 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 8 minutes; Total time approx. 48 minutes

wonderfully chocolatey and sophisticated

Heat the coffee powder in the milk until completely dissolved. Now chop the chocolate coating into small pieces and melt it in a bowl over a warm water bath or in the microwave for a few minutes. Allow both the coffee mixture and the chocolate to cool slightly so that it can be easily incorporated into the dough later. Important: The chocolate must remain liquid. Now loosely mix the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt in a large mixing bowl until all ingredients are well blended. Then stir in the butter and brown sugar for about 2 minutes. Also stir in the eggs and spice mix. Now you can fold in the cooled, still liquid chocolate. Then stir in the coffee milk. Now you need two small bowls: In the first bowl go about 100g of caster sugar and in the second 50g of powdered sugar. Preheat the oven to 200°C (top and bottom heat), or 180°C (fan). Shape the dough into balls about the size of a walnut. First roll the balls in caster sugar, then in powdered sugar. Place the cookies on a baking sheet lined with baking paper, leaving some space between them. Bake in the oven for about eight minutes, until they begin to crack. Let the cookies cool completely. Finally, dust the cookies with powdered sugar. Stored in a cool, dry place, the cookies will keep for about 3-4 weeks. Instructions for homemade spice mix (speculoos spice): 1.5 teaspoons ground cinnamon, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon blossoms (sweeter and more intense than cinnamon), 2 pinches vanilla extract from a real vanilla pod, 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom, anise, and cloves. If you like, you can also add a few drops of orange flavoring.