Mocca cookies decorated with coffee beans

7. 10. 2025

This tasty Christmas cookie is really “full” of coffee. You can use it when preparing the dough, cream, and topping.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups of plain flour
• 1 cup of butter
• 1/3 cup of powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup ground almonds or walnuts
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 tbsp of instant coffee
• 1 tbsp rum
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar

Cream

• 1/4 cup of powdered sugar
• 1/4 cup of butter
• 1/4 cup of ground almonds or walnuts
• 1 teaspoon of instant coffee
• 1 teaspoon of rum

Glaze

• 5 tablespoons of powdered sugar
• 1 egg white
• 1/2 teaspoon of instant coffee
• coffee beans in chocolate for decoration

Method:

1. Mix flour with ground almonds or walnuts in a bowl.
2. Beat butter with powdered sugar, vanilla, egg yolks, coffee powder, and rum until foamy.
3. Add flour with almonds or nuts and work into a soft dough.
4. Wrap the resulting dough in cling film and let it rest in the fridge for at least 2 hours.
5. Then, roll out the dough to a thickness of approx. 3 mm.
6. Use the cutters to cut out round, square, or other shapes.
7. Transfer the Mocca cookies to a paper-lined baking sheet.
8. Preheat the oven to 340°F.
9. Bake for 10-12 minutes.
10. In the meantime, prepare the cream.
11. Beat butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, and coffee powder dissolved in rum again until smooth.
12. Then, stir in ground almonds or walnuts.
13. After this cream has cooled, glue the individual shapes of the cookies and pour the created coffee glaze over the Mocca cookies.
14. You can prepare this simply by whipping egg whites with powdered sugar and coffee.
15. Finally, decorate each piece of candy with chocolate coffee beans.

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