Mocha Melts
Serves 40
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Prep:
Cook:
15 minutes to frost cookies and dust
An after dinner crumbly, melt in your mouth Mocha treat! A hit of coffee laced with the comfort of chocolate. All Mocha lovers will adore this!
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For the mocha cookie
- 200g unsalted butter room temp
- 1 tbsp instant coffee granules in 1 tbsp water
- 140g plain flour
- 60g icing sugar
- 110g corn starch
- 10g cocoa powder unsweetened
for the cream frosting
- 200g unsalted butter room temp
- 1 tbsp instant coffee granules in 1 tbsp water
- 140g plain flour
- 60g icing sugar
- 110g corn starch
- 10g cocoa powder unsweetened
- 140g icing sugar
- 3 tbsp unsalted butter room temp
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- milk for thinning
- cocoa powder to dust
Method
step 1
Mix the coffee granules with the water and combine, cream the coffee mixture and butter together well. Add the flour, icing sugar, cornstarch and cocoa, mix until a soft dough forms. Put the dough in the fridge for one hour to firm upstep 2
Preheat oven to 180ºc/350ºf/gas mark 4. Take a little of the cookie dough and roll into bite size balls, lay them on a lined baking tray, repeat for the all of the doughstep 3
Bake for 11 minutes and set aside to cool on the tray for a few minutes and then delicately remove and place on a cooling rackstep 4
Mix all the icing ingredients and using the milk to thin out to a frosting consistency. Frost each cookie then dust with a little cocoa powder
