Last updated on April 1st, 2022
I made these 1940s-era Coffee-and-Spice Drop Cookies the other day, and they blew me away, man. I love the cookies’ crisp edge, soft middle, and tantalizing coffee-nutmeg-cinnamon aroma. Sadly, for those of us who lack any degree of will-power, the cookies are extremely easy to make. Here’s the video how-to plus printable recipe:
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NOTES for Coffee-and-Spice Drop Cookies:
Use quality butter. Since butter is a key component in this recipe, use the very best butter (salted or unsalted) that you can afford. I used Kerry Gold butter, which comes from grass-fed cows.
Use a stand mixer or handheld electric beaters to cream the butter, sugar, and eggs. “Creaming” refers to the process of incorporating butter and sugar (and eggs, too, for this recipe) into a uniform, fluffy, and smooth mixture. Creaming insures that the sugar is evenly distributed and is mostly — if not entirely — dissolved.
Freezing. You can freeze the cookies baked or unbaked.
Looking for other cookie recipes? You’ll find lots of ’em right here on this website. A tiny sampling for you:
Sablé Breton (French Butter Cookies).
3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies (GF)
Coffee-and-Spice Drop Cookies
Ingredients
For the dry ingredients:
- 3 1/2 cups (456g) SIFTED all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
For the "wet" ingredients:
- 1 cup (227g) butter, softened to room-temperature
- 2 cups (400g) brown sugar (light or dark)
- 2 eggs, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup (118ml) cold coffee
Instructions
- Making the cookie dough -- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, soda, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer oufitted with the paddle attachment (or in any large bowl if you are using electric beaters), cream together the butter, sugar, and eggs until fluffy -- 4-5 minutes. Stir in the coffee. Then stir in the flour mixture.
- Chill for 1 hour in the refrigerator (or for 30 minutes in the freezer). About 15 minutes before you are ready to bake, center the oven rack and preheat the oven to 400°F.
- Forming and baking the cookies -- Place rounded teaspoons of dough 2 inches apart on parchment-lined baking sheets. One baking sheet will hold approximately 20 cookies.
- Bake the cookies in the preheated 400°F oven until set -- when lightly pressed with a finger, almost no imprint should remain -- 8-10 minutes. For best results, bake one batch of cookies at a time.
Nicki says
OMG – these are so good! Saw the recipe this morning and had to make them – they have all the flavours I love! Only thing I didn’t do was only make one cookie sheet and freeze the rest – BIG mistake! I’ve already had six of them. Thank for sharing this recipe and I am having a coffee and cookie to enjoy with you!
Kevin Lee Jacobs says
Hi Nicki – I’m so glad you made — and are presently enjoying — these cookies!
kt says
Mmmmmm, you had me at coffee… and cookie. 😀 I can’t wait to try these out! Thanks for sharing this.
Kathy Hardman says
My mother baked these cookies regularly through my childhood and they were a hit with the whole family. I baked them for my family as well and now that the kids are grown with families of their own I bake them
to enjoy for myself. I have her cookbook she received as a wedding gift in 1952 containing this recipe. I treasure it.
Connie Heise says
We baked these all the time on the farm as a child, ingredients were always on hand. Still a favorite. Ihad to search for the recipe again as I never put it in my extensive recipe file and my cook book from that error is packed away for a moment! THANK YOU for putting it out for the universe! And yes, it is easy to eat a TON immediately.