One of our top not-so-secret ingredients in the Delish test kitchen has got to be instant coffee. Not for drinking (though truly the
instant coffee industry has come leaps and bounds), but for making our chocolate desserts taste EXTRA rich and flavorful. They don’t usually end up tasting like coffe, but have a mysterious something extra and intense chocolate flavor that will leave you wanting more.
For these espresso cookies, we really DID want to taste the coffee, so we added 2 whole tablespoons to our recipe. That being said, feel free to reduce the amount of espresso in these if you or your family or friends are sensitive to caffeine. These taste kind of like a mocha, in cookie form—what could be better than that for an afternoon or after dinner pick-me-up? They’re soft and fudgy, and might even be better the day after they’re baked (if they last that long) stored in an airtight container at room temperature.