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Hermit Cookies
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
11 mins
Total Time
26 mins
 
This is best recipe for hermit cookies, packed with plump raisins, crunchy walnuts, and a hint of coffee that is an old family favorite.
Course: Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: American
Keyword: easy cookies, hermit cookies, hermit cookies recipe, old fashioned hermit cookies recipe with coffee, raisin walnut cookies, spice cookies
Author: Mary Balandiat
Ingredients
  • 1 cup of butter softened
  • 2 cups of light brown sugar packed
  • 2 large eggs
  • ½ cups of cold coffee
  • 3 ½ cups of flour
  • 1 teaspoon of baking soda leveled
  • 1 teaspoon of salt
  • 1 teaspoon of allspice
  • 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
  • 2 ½ cups raisins
  • 1 cups of chopped walnuts
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 375-degrees.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, cream the softened butter with the brown sugar and eggs until well blended.
  3. Stir in the cooled coffee.
  4. Sift the flour with the baking soda in another mixing bowl.
  5. Add the cinnamon, salt and allspice to the dry ingredients next.
  6. Mix in the raisins and nuts.
  7. Chill dough for at least an hour in your refrigerator.
  8. Use a small cookie scooper with a release trigger to deposit leveled scoops of the dough on ungreased cookie sheets. Give the cookies room to spread.
  9. Bake at 3750-degrees for 10-12 minutes, the edges will get lightly browned.
  10. Give these cookies about a minute or two before removing from the pan to a cooling rack.
  11. ENJOY!