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Desserts with coffee in them are simply irresistible to coffee lovers.

Today, I'll walk you step by step through a very special treat: non-bitter coffee bean cookies.

Sweetness and bitterness, opposites by nature, merge beautifully here — complementing each other while keeping their own character, like a little concerto.

Better still, the finished cookies look astonishingly like real coffee beans. You might have trouble telling them apart!

Coffee Bean Cookies

by Ruiluan's Love

Ingredients

• Low-gluten (cake) flour - 105g
• Butter - 45g
• Powdered sugar - 30g
• Coffee powder - 13g
• Cocoa powder - 5g
• Whole egg - 25g

Instructions

1. Soften the butter at room temperature, then place it in a bowl and mix until smooth.

2. Add the powdered sugar and whisk steadily in one direction.

3. Add the whole egg and mix thoroughly.

4. Combine the cake flour, cocoa powder, and coffee powder evenly, then sift them into the butter mixture.

5. Fold everything together with a spatula until uniform.

6. Divide the dough into 3g portions. Roll each portion into a small oval ball, then press a fairly deep groove down the middle with a scraper.

7. Arrange the cookies on a baking tray lined with parchment paper.

8. Preheat the oven to 170°C and bake on the middle rack for 20 minutes.

Look at them — don't they look just like coffee beans? It's hard to tell the difference, isn't it?

Helpful Tips

✔ No cocoa powder on hand? Substitute an equal amount of cake flour.

✔ Use pure coffee powder — never 3-in-1 instant coffee mixes.

✔ Stir the cake flour, coffee powder, and cocoa powder together thoroughly before sifting, or the dough's color will come out streaky.

✔ Don't press the groove too deep, or the cookies may crack (the back of a thin knife works too). And be sure to press it dead center, or the finished "bean" will look lopsided.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

Great cookies start with coffee powder that tastes sweet rather than bitter — and the same rule applies to the cup. FrontStreet Coffee's Costa Rica Black Honey is the flagship of high-sweetness lots: Costa Rica is famous for honey processing, and the black-honey method keeps the sugary mucilage most intact, fermenting deepest and finishing sweetest. FrontStreet's Blackberry lot comes from a high-altitude Costa Rican farm; roasted medium-light to honor its natural floral-fruit character, it brews into sweet florals, grape, sweet orange, and liqueur chocolate.

Prefer your sweetness with some backbone? Brazil Fazenda Rainha shows how a medium roast earns its "sweet finish": first comes the rich aroma of roasted peanut and dark chocolate, then the bitterness fades into a gentle sweetness that lingers without weakening — the hallmark of a quality cup. As a pour-over it speaks of origin and variety; through a moka pot or espresso machine it gives fine crema and a full, mellow body that makes especially rich, sweet americanos and lattes.