Chocolate Dipped Coffee Kisses Recipes

COFFEE KISSES

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 180°c (160°c for fan assisted ovens or Gas Mark 4) and line a couple of baking sheets with grease-proof paper.
• In a mug dissolve your coffee with the boiling water, stir well and set aside to cool.
• In a large bowl, mix the flour and sugar before rubbing in the butter/margarine with your fingers, until you get a sandy consistency.
• Add the egg to the cooled coffee and beat with a fork. Add to the bowl and bring the ingredients together to create a soft sticky dough.
• Roll about a teaspoon of the dough into a ball and place on your pre-lined baking sheets. Repeat with the rest of the dough to make about 30 balls, leaving some space between each as they will spread a little while baking.
• Bake in your pre-heated oven for 15-20 minutes until the balls resemble small biscuits and are dry-looking on top. Leave to cool on the baking sheets for a short while before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
• Whilst the biscuits cool you can prepare your buttercream filling. As with the biscuits, prepare your instant coffee with the boiling water and set aside.
• In a bowl, mix the icing sugar and butter/margarine before adding the coffee and beating until light and fluffy.
• Either spread or pipe the icing onto half the biscuits, before sandwiching them to the remaining half.

CHOCOLATE KISS COCKTAIL

Steps:

• Place the cognac, sherry, Cane Simple Syrup, dark chocolate syrup, half-and-half, caramel sauce and chocolate bitters if using in a cocktail shaker (without ice) and dry shake until everything is emulsified. Add large ice cubes and shake again vigorously. Double strain and serve in a martini glass or cocktail coupe. Garnish with dark cocoa powder.
• Combine the sugar and 1 cup water in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Cook, stirring, until the sugar dissolves. Remove from the heat and let cool completely. Keep covered in the refrigerator up to 1 month.

COFFEE KISSES BISCUITS RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 180°C (gas mark 4, 350°F) and line a baking tray with parchment paper.
• Add butter and caster sugar into a large mixing bowl and cream together until light and fluffy.
• In a cup, mix a tablespoon of coffee with a tablespoon of warm water until the coffee granules have dissolved.
• Then add an egg into the mixing bowl with the dissolved coffee and mix together until evenly distributed.
• Pour the self-raising flour into the bowl and mix together until the biscuit dough has formed.
• Scoop a teaspoon of dough, place it in the palm of your hands and roll it into a ball, then place the dough on a lined baking tray. Repeat this step for the rest of the dough.Leave space between each ball as they will spread whilst baking in the oven.
• Bake for 15 minutes in the oven, then leave the biscuits to cool down.
• To make the buttercream, mix together a teaspoon of instant coffee with a teaspoon of water and set aside for later use.
• In a mixing bowl, add butter and icing sugar and mix together until combined. Then add the dissolved coffee and mix together until evenly distributed.
• To assemble the biscuits, spread or pipe the coffee buttercream on top of one biscuit, then top with another biscuit.

CHOCOLATE-DIPPED COFFEE KISSES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200 degrees F (95 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Line a large plate with waxed paper.
• Beat egg whites, coffee granules, vanilla extract, cream of tartar, and salt with an electric mixer at high speed until soft peaks form, 3 to 5 minutes. Add sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating constantly, until stiff but still glossy peaks form, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Drop egg white mixture by rounded tablespoons 2 inches apart on prepared baking sheet (alternately, fill a pastry bag fitted with a star tip with egg white mixture and pipe out 1- to 1 1/2-inch stars).
• Bake in the preheated oven until kisses are firm and dry, about 2 hours. Cool on the baking sheet set on a wire rack for 1 hour.
• Melt chocolate in the top of a double boiler over simmering water, stirring frequently and scraping down the sides with a rubber spatula to avoid scorching. Remove from heat and cool slightly.
• Peel kisses from parchment paper. Dip the base of each kiss in melted chocolate and transfer to waxed paper-lined plate. Freeze kisses until chocolate hardens, 2 to 3 minutes.

CHOCOLATE COFFEE KISS

Steps:

• In an Irish coffee mug, combine coffee liqueur, Irish cream, creme de cacao and Grand Marnier. Add half of the chocolate syrup, then fill mug with hot coffee; stir gently.
• Top with a dollop of whipped cream, drizzle with remaining chocolate syrup and garnish with a maraschino cherry or a few chocolate shavings.

COFFEE CHOCOLATE TRUFFLE KISSES

Steps:

• Break chocolate into small pieces. In a food processor pulse together chocolate and butter until chocolate is finely chopped. In a small saucepan whisk together cream, espresso powder, and salt and bring just to a boil. Pour hot cream mixture over chocolate mixture and pulse until smooth. Transfer mixture to a bowl. Let mixture stand at cool room temperature until just firm enough to pipe, about 2 hours.
• Oil a large baking sheet and line with parchment paper.
• Transfer chocolate mixture to a pastry bag fitted with a 1/2-inch plain tip. Pipe mixture onto baking sheet to form 1- by 1-inch cones, or "kisses." Chill kisses, uncovered, until firm, at least 3 hours, and up to 1 day.
• Into a small bowl sift cocoa powder. Working with 1 kiss at a time, roll in cocoa powder to coat. Kisses keep, in one layer in an airtight container at cool room temperature or chilled, 2 weeks.