Coffee Biscuits Sandwiched 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 filled with an ultra light whipped coffee chocolate ganache. They are irresistible.
Recently, I received some Pura coffee to review (more on this soon). 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 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.
Valentine’s Day
Other Valentine’s Day Recipes You Might Like
- 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 – The Recipe
Crunchy biscuits with a hint of coffee are filled with an ultra light moussy coffee cream ganache.
- 40 ml strong cooled coffee
- 50 g milk chocolate (40%)
- 90 ml double cream
- 100 g wholemeal spelt flour
- 100 g plain white flour
- 100 g golden caster sugar (I used vanilla caster sugar)
- 100 g unsalted butter
- 3 tbsp strong cooled coffee
- Melt chocolate in a bowl over hot water.
- Add coffee to the bowl one third at a time stirring hard after each addition until all incorporated and smooth.
- Add cream and stir until incorporated.
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.
Place all ingredients except the coffee into a food processor and pulse until mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Or rub butter into dry ingredients by hand.
- Add coffee and pulse again. Or if making by hand, stir in with a knife
- Bring mixture together with hands to form a ball.
- Place in a plastic bag and leave for 1/2 hr or so in the fridge to firm up.
- Roll the bough out to just under 1/4 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 180C. 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.
Sharing
With the Valentine theme very much in mind when making these biscuits, I’m submitting them to Calendar Cakes with Dolly Bakes and Laura Loves Cakes. 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 teapot and mugs Red Cornishware set 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 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.
Janice Pattie
9th February 2013 at 7:54 pmWhat a nice idea, love the little hearts and the full on coffee flavour is very much to my taste.
Choclette
9th February 2013 at 8:33 pmThanks Janice, my coffee loving friends really enjoyed them.
hungryhinny
9th February 2013 at 8:26 pmThese 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!
Choclette
9th February 2013 at 8:36 pmNat, 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.
hungryhinny
10th February 2013 at 8:06 pmSounds like a plan, hopefully I will have time tomorrow night to bake them!
Gloria
9th February 2013 at 11:46 pmthese look beautiful!! Love them!
Choclette
10th February 2013 at 11:46 amThank you Gloria
Katie
10th February 2013 at 8:03 amThey 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
Choclette
10th February 2013 at 11:48 amThanks 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 😉
Laura Loves Cakes
10th February 2013 at 11:12 amWhat 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 🙂
Choclette
10th February 2013 at 11:52 amThanks 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.
Fuss Free Helen
10th February 2013 at 1:16 pmWe 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!
Choclette
10th February 2013 at 7:49 pmThanks Helen, the coffee is good. There are far too many challenges out there now and I can’t keep up with most of them.
The Caked Crusader
10th February 2013 at 4:21 pmI am related to several men who will adore that coffee chocolate ganache! Your biscuits look ace
Choclette
10th February 2013 at 7:50 pmThanks CC, send them over 😉
Javelin Warrior
10th February 2013 at 4:23 pmThese 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!
Choclette
10th February 2013 at 7:51 pmThanks JW. I shall be using that whipped ganache for all sorts of things now, it’s heaps better than buttercream.
laura@howtocookgoodfood
10th February 2013 at 7:57 pmWell 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??!!
Choclette
12th February 2013 at 7:55 amHaha 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 🙂
Miss C Flash
10th February 2013 at 8:05 pmI 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
Choclette
12th February 2013 at 7:57 amThere’s something about having a tin full of biscuits, not that the tin stays full for very long 😉
franglaiskitchen
10th February 2013 at 9:48 pmThese 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
Choclette
16th February 2013 at 9:08 amThanks Nazima, not being much of a coffee lover, I surprised myself by just how good I found them.
Alida
11th February 2013 at 11:38 amThese 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.
Choclette
17th February 2013 at 8:07 pmThank you Alida. Good idea, I wish I’d tried dipping one now,
Maggie
11th February 2013 at 3:06 pmI’m a huge coffee fan and these would be fabulous with a morning coffee.
Choclette
17th February 2013 at 8:11 pmThanks Maggie, it makes me feel I should have coffee mornings more often.
Susie @ Fold in the Flour
11th February 2013 at 8:35 pmI really love the sound of these, especially with the coffee ganache. Lovely bake. 🙂
Choclette
17th February 2013 at 8:13 pmThank you Susie, they have quite changed my mind about coffee flavoured biscuits.
Kim Carberry
14th February 2013 at 11:30 amThese sound delicious!! Very cute too 🙂
Choclette
17th February 2013 at 8:14 pmThank you Kim. You saw them on the right day 🙂
Paula Hart
17th February 2013 at 3:10 pmMy hubby would love these..coffee addict that he is! I LOVE the sound of that whipped ganache I bet it was amazing! 🙂 x
Choclette
17th February 2013 at 8:15 pmThanks Paula – the whipped ganache was amazing and I have used the technique again already.
Debs Dust Bunny
20th February 2013 at 5:57 pmThese look so delicious and pretty! Nothing is much nicer than the combination of chocolate and coffee.
wayne smith
22nd February 2013 at 8:51 amThese sound divine !!
Laura Harris
Perky
28th February 2013 at 7:24 pmRight up my street! Love coffee cream flavours!
anthony harrington
8th March 2013 at 12:41 pmthese are really making me hungry!
Jen Price
8th March 2013 at 5:55 pmCan’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.
Angie Hoggett
29th April 2013 at 12:02 pmThanks for this these look scrummy!