Power Christmas Cookies

My cookie baking for this Christmas is winding down & I'm a bit weary.  So I figured it was time for a cookie that would give me a little "Pick-me-up".
While this is actually a chocolate cookie, I beefed it up with a little instant coffee - that ought to do the trick!

Farmer Boy Mocha Nut Drop Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1/2 Cup of unsalted butter
• 1/4 Cup of sugar
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 3/4 Cup of all-purpose flour
• 1/4 Cup of baking cocoa
• 1/2 Tablespoon of instant coffee granules
• 1/2 Cup of Pecans, chopped
• Powdered sugar

Directions: Cream the butter and sugar.  Add in the vanilla.  Mix in the flour, cocoa, and coffee.  Stir in the nuts.

Roll into 1 inch balls.  Place onto parchment paper lined sheet pan.  Bake at 325 degrees F. for 14 to 16 minutes.  Remove to wire rack to cool.  While still warm, dust with powdered sugar.  This recipe makes about 4 dozen.

These cookies are a bit fragile, but tasty!

"Oh for a little time to enjoy the beauties around me! Just a little while to be free of the tyranny of things that must be done!" Laura Ingalls Wilder

Well, the cookies have given me a little lift and maybe I'll be able to go on to make another Christmas treat - or I may just sit back in my recliner, munch on some of these cookies and watch a Christmas movie on TV!  We'll see!  :-)

I hope you'll try these cookies and then come back here to let us all know how it went, by leaving a comment here.  Thanks.   Merry Christmas, from the Old Man in the Bib Overalls