If you like coffee and halva – I’m sure you’re going to LOVE these coffee sandwich cookies! It’s a coffee cookie sandwich filled with halva spread (available in ethnic food stores or health stores), and decorated with some melted dark chocolate. So yummy!
Photo: Natalie Levin
Coffee Sandwich Cookies filled with Halva
For the coffee sandwich cookies:
- 100 grams (1/2 cup) soft butter
- 125 grams (1/2 cup + 2 tbsp.) sugar
- 1/4 tsp. fine salt
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp. instant coffee powder
- 1 large egg
- 180 grams (1 1/4 cups) all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- light brown sugar for coating
For the filling:
- Halva spread
Decoration:
- 50 grams dark chocolate (optional)
Coffee sandwich cookies:
- In mixer bowl with paddle-attachment whip butter, sugar, salt, coffee and vanilla until mixture is creamy and smooth.
- Scrape the sides of the bowl with a spatula and add an egg. Continue to blend the mixture until it is absorbed.
- Add flour and baking powder and mix until the dough is smooth.
- Wrap the dough in plastic wrap, flatten slightly and let cool for about 20 minutes in the refrigerator.
- Preheat oven to 170c degrees and line oven trays with baking paper.
- Create small balls (the size of a walnut) from the dough and coat them in sugar. Place on the baking trays.
- Flatten top of the cookies slightly with your hands and bake for 8-10 minutes or until golden and set at the edges but still slightly soft in the center.
- Cool completely before filling.
Assemble the cookie sandwich:
- Arrange sets of cookies and fill with halva spread.
- Melt the chocolate and transfer into a small pastry bag.
- Pipe thin strips on the cookies and let cool a few minutes in the refrigerator to set. Serve.
- You can fill the cookies with any other spread you like.
- Instead of dark chocolate you can decorate the cookies white or milk chocolate as well.
- Keep the cookies in an airtight container for up to 4 days.
Photo: Natalie Levin