Mocha Swirl Cookies

Mocha Swirl Cookies Coffee together with chocolate shortbread doughs brand for a beautiful (and tasty!) swirled cookie treat.

Mocha.  Check!  Swirl.  Check!  Cookies.  Double check!!  I beloved all those words, thus how could I non give these cookies a try?  And they're thus pretty!  As presently every bit I saw these on Sprinkle Bakes' site, I knew I had to brand them.  Onto my Pinterest board they went.

I'll live up-front that making these cookies does entail quite a few steps, but if y'all similar mocha flavour together with shortbread'ish cookies, they're worth it.  You larn started past times preparing a base of operations dough that together with thus gets divided inwards two.  Half becomes java dough, using instant java granules (how easy!), together with the other one-half becomes chocolate dough.  These together with thus larn rolled together jelly-roll manner to shape the gorgeous swirl. 

Sprinkle Bakes advises that the chocolate dough is a tad prone to cracking.  If that happens, she says to STOP together with ready it earlier continuing to roll.  Well ... yes, I discovered first-hand that the chocolate dough does indeed fissure quite easily.  See that large ol' fissure all the agency downward my dough roll?

But no worries.  I merely stopped, every bit advised, together with gently rubbed together with pinched the dough dorsum together.  It worked, together with the dough log was none the worse for the wear.

Once the dough is rolled, chill it for at to the lowest degree an hr earlier slicing.  Then give it a chop inwards one-half ... Check out that gorgeous spiral!  Success!!

Then piece into 1/4" slices.

My slices squashed a petty fight together with the 'tails' of the cease came a fight unloosen when I cutting them.  Once I placed the slices on the cookie sheet, I merely gently reshaped them.  All was well. 

Once out of the oven, behold your beautiful spiral.  Pretty, pretty, pretty!  Oh, together with yummy, too.  Now rest tuned ... because this method gave me an visit that I merely accept to try.  It's coming soon!

Mocha Swirl Cookies

Source:  Adapted from Sprinkle Bakes

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

three c. all-purpose flour

1 1/2 tsp. baking powder

1/4 tsp. salt

1 c. butter, softened

1 c. sugar

1 egg

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 1/2 tsp. instant coffee

2 oz. nighttime chocolate, melted together with cooled slightly

Directions

Prepare the Base Dough:

1.  Combine flour, baking powder, together with salt; laid aside.

2.  With an electrical mixer, trounce butter until creamy (about three to iv minutes).  With the mixer running at depression speed, gradually add together the saccharide to the butter.  Add egg together with vanilla; trounce well.  Add flour mixture, mixing until merely combined.  Scrape downward the sides of the bowl together with mix ane time again until good incorporated.  Remove dough from the mixer together with separate it into ii equal portions.

Prepare the Coffee Dough:

3.  Return one-half of the dough to the mixer.  

4.  Place instant java granules inwards a small-scale zip-top plastic bag; crunch fine  amongst a meat mallet.  Add crushed instant java granules to the dough inwards the mixer bowl.  Mix until combined together with dough is speckled amongst java granules.  Remove java dough from the mixer.

Prepare the Chocolate Dough:

5.  Return the other one-half of the dough to the mixer together with add together the melted chocolate.  Mix until good combined.

Make the Cookies:

6.  Roll out each dough separately betwixt ii sheets of wax newspaper to most 1/4" thickness.  Each piece should live a ix x 14" rectangle.  Chill on baking sheets inwards the fridge for at to the lowest degree 1 hour.

7.  When dough is thoroughly chilled, house the java dough on laissez passer on of the chocolate dough.  With a rolling pin, gently press together the ii pieces of dough.  Let the dough stand upwards at room temperature until malleable.

8.  Using a abrupt knife, cutting downward ane of the 14" sides to fifty-fifty the dough up.  This provides an fifty-fifty start for the spiral when y'all ringlet upwards the dough.  Very like shooting fish in a barrel together with carefully, ringlet the dough real tightly jelly-roll style, using the wax newspaper to involve the dough.  If the chocolate dough cracks spell rolling, halt together with gently press together with pinch the dough dorsum together earlier continuing to roll.  Continue to ringlet real slowly.

9.  Once rolled into a log, embrace the dough ringlet inwards plastic twine together with chill at to the lowest degree 1 hour.  Turn the dough log spell chilling at to the lowest degree ane time (or more) thus it doesn't become apartment on ane side.

10.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Remove dough log from the refrigerator.  Uncover together with piece inwards one-half amongst a abrupt knife.  Place one-half of the dough log dorsum inwards the fridge to move on it chilled while you piece the other half.  Using a abrupt knife, piece dough into 1/4" thick rounds.  If the ends of the spiral come upwards unloosen or the shape warps, gently reshape ane time the slices accept been placed on a cookie sheet.

11.  Bake for 10 - 12 minutes.  Let cool on the baking canvass for 2 - three minutes earlier trasnferring to a cooling rack.  Repeat amongst remaining dough.  Makes most xl cookies. 

Enjoy!