High Altitude Chewy Coffee Cookies
An easy high altitude recipe for soft and chewy coffee cookies, flavored with espresso powder, and coated in espresso sugar.
All recipes on Curly Girl Kitchen are developed for high altitude at 5,280 feet. See FAQs for adjusting to higher or lower elevations.
Equipment
- Electric Mixer (Stand or Hand-Held)
- Small Cookie Scoop with Release Lever (about a 1 tbsp capacity)
Ingredients
- 6 tbsp unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- ½ cup light or dark brown sugar, lightly packed
- ½ cup granulated sugar, divided
- 1 large egg
- 2 tbsp dark corn syrup or golden syrup
- 1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 4 tsp instant espresso powder or coffee powder, divided
- 2 cups all-purpose flour, fluffed, spooned and leveled
- 1 ½ tsp corn starch
- ¾ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp coarse Kosher salt (if using table salt, use half the amount)
Instructions
- With an electric mixer, beat the softened butter, brown sugar, 1/4 cup of granulated sugar, egg, syrup, vanilla and 3 teaspoons of espresso powder, for 2 minutes, until well combined.
- Separately, whisk together the flour, corn starch, baking soda and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the wet, and stir everything together with a spatula into a thick dough.
- Use a small cookie scoop with a release lever to scoop 24 balls of dough.
- In a small bowl, combine the remaining 1/4 cup granulated sugar with 1 teaspoon espresso powder. Roll the dough balls smooth between your hands, coat them in the espresso sugar, and then flatten the balls into disks.
- Cover the flattened cookie dough balls with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 2 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 350 F, position a rack in the center of the oven, and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Space the chilled cookies several inches apart on the baking sheet, and bake for 8 minutes. Cool several minutes on the baking sheet, then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely. The cookies will initially look puffed when you take them out of the oven, but will settle and flatten a bit as they cool.
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