Coffee Walnut Cookies

I love coffee and I also love cookies. So I decided today that I’m going to mix the two along with some walnut for some crunch and nothing sounded better. Do you find it super difficult to stop yourself from eating the cookies when they are on the cooling rack? I’ve failed each time. It’s just so hard to resist freshly baked cookies. Half the batch just disappears before you think of storing them. This is one such cookie. So here’s the recipe for my Coffee Walnut Cookies.

Ingredients:

• ½ cup Salted Butter
• ¾ cup Powered Sugar
• 1 Egg
• 1 tsp. Vanilla Essence
• 1 tsp. Baking Powder
• 1¼ cup All Purpose Flour
•  2 tsp. Instant Coffee Powder
• 1/3 cup chopped Walnuts

Method:

• Pre-heat Oven at 170°C
• Add Butter and Sugar in a Mixing bowl and mix using a hand beater.
• Add the Egg, Vanilla essence, Baking Powder and Coffee Powder and mix further.
• Add All Purpose Flour and fold it in using a spatula, until everything is mixed properly.
• Now add in the Walnuts and mix again gently with the spatula.
• Place a Butter Paper or Cookie Mat on a baking tray.
• Form Lime size balls out of the cookie dough and place it at equal distance on the tray. (Make sure they are at least 2 inches away from each other).
• Give a gentle press to each of the balls to flatten it a bit and Press the top of each of them with a fork.
• Transfer the tray into the oven and bake for 14-15 minutes.
• Transfer the cookies to a cooling rack and enjoy your cookies once they’ve cooled.

Banana Walnut Loaf

If you have some overripe bananas, this is the best recipe that you can use. All you have to do is prepare the mixture, transfer it into a loaf tin and forget about it for an hour. After an hour, you’ll end up with a beautiful banana loaf and eating it along with a cup of hot coffee will make the experience breathtaking. Add a teaspoon of cinnamon powder to make it taste even better. Here’s the recipe for Banana Walnut Loaf.

Ingredients:

• 3 Ripe Bananas
• 1¾ cup All Purpose Flour
• 2 Eggs
• 1 tsp. Baking Powder
• ½ cup Softened Butter
• 1¼ cup Powered Sugar
• A pinch of Salt
• 1 tsp. Vanilla Essence
• 1 cup chopped Walnuts

Method:

• Pre-heat oven at 175°C
• Mash the Bananas using a potato masher.
• In a large mixing bowl, add the sugar and Butter and mix well using a whisk.
• Add the eggs into the bowl and mix it using a spatula.
• Add the Salt and Vanilla Essence and mix with the spatula.
• Add the mashed Bananas and mix again.
• Now add the flour and mix gently with the spatula. (Make sure you don’t mix too much).
• Now add the Walnuts and fold it in gently.
• Grease a loaf tin and then transfer the loaf mixture into the tin.
• Transfer the tin into the Oven and bake for 1 hour or till it’s baked.