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Sugar Cookies with Coffee Frosting

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Delicious coffee frosting on chewy sugar cookies!

Ingredients

  • FOR THE SUGAR COOKIES:
  • 2-¾ cups All-purpose Flour
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
  • ½ teaspoons Baking Powder
  • 1 cup Butter, Softened
  • 1-½ cup Sugar
  • 1 whole Egg
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • _____
  • FOR THE COFFEE FROSTING:
  • 1-½ teaspoon Instant Coffee
  • ½ teaspoons Cinnamon
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • ½ cups Butter, Softened
  • ⅓ cups Milk
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • 2-½ cups Confectioners Sugar

Preparation

For the sugar cookies:

Preheat oven to 375ºF.

Combine the flour, baking soda, and baking powder (the dry ingredients) into one bowl and mix until they are all fully incorporated.

In another bowl, add the softened butter and sugar, and cream them together until it is nice and smooth. To that, add in the egg and vanilla extract and mix until fully incorporated (wet ingredients).

Add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients slowly by adding in about a third of the dry ingredients at a time and mix together, then add the second third, etc. Keep mixing until the dough becomes a ball.

Portion one-tablespoon-sized balls of cookie dough onto a greased baking sheet and bake in the oven for 10 minutes.

For the coffee frosting:

In a bowl, combine coffee, cinnamon, salt, butter, milk, and vanilla extract and mix thoroughly. Then, add in the confectioner’s sugar and mix to thicken the frosting. Keep adding the sugar until it becomes as thick as you want. For thicker frosting, add more sugar. For thinner frosting, add less sugar.

Once it’s all mixed, it’s time to frost!

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mylilchunkymonkey on 5.16.2011

I left a review last week and just wanted to add that everyone LOVED the cookies. I made another batch over the weekend and added the icing to take to a brunch Sunday and everyone there raved about them as well! Great recipe – these will definitely be a go-to recipe for me – with and without the icing!

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Juanita on 4.29.2011

These sound delicious! Adding them to my recipe box!

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Wenderly on 4.29.2011

I am a coffee nut! This coffee frosting sounds divine!

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cookbooked on 4.28.2011

These sound so good. I’ve never seen a coffee frosting recipe that didn’t call for chocolate. Believe it or not, I am actually married to, and have given birth to, persons who aren’t that crazy about chocolate and do like coffee. Thanks for submitting this recipe!

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zimmsbride on 3.6.2012

Mmmm! So good! I used fresh ground espresso instead of instant coffee and topped with jimmies :) The cookies were light and soft and the frosting was sweet and buttery!

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Stephanie on 9.18.2011

Just made the coffee icing, absolutely delicious. I wanted to put it on everything.

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mylilchunkymonkey on 5.11.2011

I just made the cookies (no coffee icing since they are for my son’s pre-school class tomorrow) and they are fantastic. Soft, chewy perfection. Thanks for a great recipe!

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Marie @ My Culinary Calling on 4.30.2011

I made just the coffee icing and it was great!
I used instant espresso powder instead of instant coffee ( I do not know the flavor difference). I put the frosting on top of white cakey cookies. It was tasty! Thanks!

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