Coffee Biscuits With Whipped Coffee Chocolate Ganache
If you like just a hint of coffee, but nothing too overpowering, these coffee biscuits are for you. Crunchy biscuits (or cookies if you prefer) are sandwiched with an ultra light whipped coffee chocolate ganache. They are irresistible.
Recently, I received some Pura coffee to review. And guess what? The first thing I thought was to try it out in some baking. Drink coffee, moi?
As some of you may have gathered by now, I’m currently heavily into biscuits. I typed coffee and biscuits into Eat Your Books and came up with a recipe for Manhattan Cappuccino in Cooking with Chocolate by Frederic Bau.
This involved stacking bought rectangular butter biscuits into elaborate structures to mimic the Manhatten skyline. Whilst this was way too elaborate for me, the coffee chocolate ganache used to glue the biscuits together was something I did want to make.
Coffee Biscuits Sandwiched With Whipped Coffee Chocolate Ganache
I decided I’d make some coffee flavoured biscuits and used the ganache to sandwich them together. Fortuitously, I came across a recipe for coffee biscuits over at Blue Kitchen Bakes, just as I was debating what biscuits to make. This then, would be the recipe that I based my coffee biscuits on. I chose a heart shape which seemed appropriate given the proximity to Valentine’s Day.
Normally, I would have made the biscuit mixture by hand. It’s pretty easy. If I’d done so, I’d probably have creamed the butter and sugar together as suggested in the original recipe. However, I’d just made some pastry in the food processor, so it seemed sensible to use it for these biscuits as well. I’m always up for less washing up.
Given that coffee flavoured bakes are low on my list of favourites, I was very pleased with these. The biscuits are really good. They’re crunchy and buttery with just a hint of coffee. But the ganache is a complete revelation.
The method I used to make it produced a very light almost mousse-like cream, which knocks the spots off buttercream. I shall definitely be using this method again. The coffee flavour in the ganache is quite strong, but it brings out other flavours without overpowering everything else.
Valentine’s Day
As it turned out, these are perfect Valentine’s biscuits. Why not treat the coffee lover in your life to some on February 14th? Coffee flavoured bakes are a rare treat for CT, so he doubly appreciated them. I think this praline coffee chocolate cake may be the only other coffee bake on the blog.
Other Valentine’s Day Recipes You Might Like
- Blood orange posset
- Chocolate peanut butter ice cream sundae
- Mexican chocolate pudding
- Mini chocolate Valentine’s cakes
- Peach and white chocolate cake
- Valentine’s heart cakes
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Coffee Biscuits Sandwiched with Whipped Coffee Chocolate Ganache
Ingredients
Whipped Coffee Chocolate Ganache
- 40 ml strong black coffee
- 50 g milk chocolate (40%)
- 90 ml double cream (heavy cream)
Coffee Biscuits
- 100 g wholemeal spelt flour
- 100 g plain flour (all purpose flour)
- 100 g golden caster sugar (I used vanilla caster sugar)
- 100 g unsalted butter
- 3 tbsp strong black coffee
Instructions
Whipped Coffee Chocolate Ganache
- Melt chocolate in a bowl over hot water.50 g milk chocolate
- Add coffee to the bowl one third at a time stirring hard after each addition until all incorporated and smooth.40 ml strong black coffee
- Add cream and stir until incorporated.90 ml double cream (heavy cream)
- Place in the fridge for three hours and make the biscuits whilst you’re waiting.
- Use electric beaters to whip the ganache until peaks form. It’s now ready for spreading.
Biscuits
- Place all ingredients except the coffee into a food processor and pulse until mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Or rub butter into dry ingredients by hand.100 g wholemeal spelt flour, 100 g plain flour (all purpose flour), 100 g golden caster sugar, 100 g unsalted butter
- Add coffee and pulse again. Or if making by hand, stir in with a knife3 tbsp strong black coffee
- Bring mixture together with hands to form a ball.
- Place in a plastic bag and leave for ½ hr or so in the fridge to firm up.
- Roll the bough out to just under ¼ cm thickness.
- Cut out heart shapes.
- Re-roll off cuts and carry on cutting until all the pastry is used up and you have 40 biscuits.
- Place on 2 baking trays lines with silicone mats or baking paper and bake for 10 minutes at 180℃ (350℉, Gas 4). Remove to a wire rack to cool.
- Spread the ganache over half of the biscuits and sandwich the remaining biscuits on top, to make 20.
Notes
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Sharing
With the Valentine theme very much in mind when making these heart shaped biscuits, I’m submitting them to Calendar Cakes with Dolly Bakes. The theme this month is, strangley, lurve!
For much the same reason I’m submitting them to a Valentine themed Tea for Two with Homemade by Fleur. Fleur has a set of Red Cornishware teapot and mugs which I am very keen to get my hands on and which she is giving as a prize to whoever Holly (of GBBO fame) thinks has put in the best entry – fingers crossed!
For no good reason, other than I made these from scratch and JW is always appreciative, I’m also submitting these coffee biscuits to Made with Love Mondays.
Classic French, a monthly challenge hosted by Jen of Blue Kitchen Bakes. She has the theme of ganache this month, so I’m making my debut entry with my whipped coffee chocolate ganache.
Can’t believe I didn’t get round to commenting on these sooner. They look fantastic and I think the ganache filling sounds like a really good idea. Thanks for entering into Classic French and I’m happy I provided you with the inspiration. It’s great that us bloggers can all pick up ideas from each other and then create our own unique dishes from them.
Right up my street! Love coffee cream flavours!
These look so delicious and pretty! Nothing is much nicer than the combination of chocolate and coffee.
My hubby would love these..coffee addict that he is! I LOVE the sound of that whipped ganache I bet it was amazing! 🙂 x
Thanks Paula – the whipped ganache was amazing and I have used the technique again already.
These sound delicious!! Very cute too 🙂
Thank you Kim. You saw them on the right day 🙂
I really love the sound of these, especially with the coffee ganache. Lovely bake. 🙂
Thank you Susie, they have quite changed my mind about coffee flavoured biscuits.
I’m a huge coffee fan and these would be fabulous with a morning coffee.
Thanks Maggie, it makes me feel I should have coffee mornings more often.
These rustic delicious biscuits are great with coffee or tea. I’d love to dip them into my coffee… mmm I can almost taste them! Very nice Choclette.
Thank you Alida. Good idea, I wish I’d tried dipping one now,
These sound so lovely. I think the idea of the coffee ganache is a great one. This seems perfect as an afternoon pick me up treat I think
Thanks Nazima, not being much of a coffee lover, I surprised myself by just how good I found them.
I really want to make more biscuits, and am definitely more inspired after seeing your beautiful biscuits. I love coffee and I think this would be heaven on a plate x
There’s something about having a tin full of biscuits, not that the tin stays full for very long 😉
Well I know I would love these being the coffee lover I am. I think these sound perfect and I have also been making a whipped icing myself this week. Mine involved white chocolate though! Maybe this will convert you to a coffee drinker, d’you think??!!
Haha Laura, it’s not that I don’t like drinking coffee, I just don’t like it that much, so don’t see the point of it. We’ll have to start a campaign for whipped icing, light and airy is the way to go 🙂
These are so adorable, Choclette, and I love the whipped coffee ganache filling! What a perfect treat for Valentine’s Day and I love the presentation of the hearts in a circle… Thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks JW. I shall be using that whipped ganache for all sorts of things now, it’s heaps better than buttercream.
I am related to several men who will adore that coffee chocolate ganache! Your biscuits look ace
Thanks CC, send them over 😉
We are hugely enjoying the Pura coffee too, although I have not done anything apart from drink it!
Lovely biscuits, and thanks for the reminder about JW’s Made With Luv, I always forget it, and must submit something!
Thanks Helen, the coffee is good. There are far too many challenges out there now and I can’t keep up with most of them.
What cute little biscuits and they’re perfect for Valentines! I love the combination of the coffee and the whipped ganache…these I can only imagine would taste delicious!! Re Eat Your Books…do you find it worthwhile, I like the idea! I also like the sound of creating the Manhatten Skyline out of biscuits! Thanks for entering these into Calendar Cakes 🙂
Thanks Laura. I find Eat Your Books really useful and use it quite a lot, both for baking and general cooking. You can look for recipes with a specific ingredient, or a type of recipe or both, eg lime tart. The downside is, a lot of my cookery books haven’t yet been indexed, so it only covers about half of my collection at the moment, but it is adding to it all the time and there is an option to index them yourself.
The picture I have in the book of the biscuit Manhatten is impressive.
They look lovely and delicate and buttery and oerfect for giving to a loved one. I like how the biscuit and the filling is coffee flavoured, gives them a lovely golden colour
Thanks Katie. These were polished off by several loved ones as I had friends over for a coffee tasting, but that’s the nice thing about biscuits, you can spread the love 😉
these look beautiful!! Love them!
Thank you Gloria
These look so good as I am a massive coffee lover! I especially like the sound of the ganache, I wouldn’t normally make one with milk chocolate but I can imagine the coffee would cut through the sweetness…
How long do you reckon these would keep? I’m looking for something I can make on Monday but take into work on Wednesday!
Nat, if you make the biscuits and ganache separately, then you can sandwich them together before you go to work. I had the last one three days after I made them and they were fine, but a bit soft.
Sounds like a plan, hopefully I will have time tomorrow night to bake them!
What a nice idea, love the little hearts and the full on coffee flavour is very much to my taste.
Thanks Janice, my coffee loving friends really enjoyed them.