Chewy Coffee and Cardamom Sugar Cookies

Name: Chewy Coffee and Cardamom Sugar Cookies
Yield: Makes 24 cookies
Ingredients: 2 1/4 cups (11¼ ounces), all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon, baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon, baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon, table salt; 1/2 teaspoon, ground cardamom; 1 1/2 cups (10½ ounces), sugar, plus 1⁄3 cup for rolling; 2 ounces, cream cheese, cut into 8 pieces; 6 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted; 1/3 cup, vegetable oil; 2 tablespoons, instant espresso powder; 1 tablespoon, milk; 1 , large egg

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2021

Desserts or Baked Goods

SERVESMakes 24 cookies

TIME1 hour, plus 20 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For optimal chewiness, we adjusted the fat in our sugar cookie recipe until it hit a ratio of approximately 1 part saturated fat (butter) to 3 parts unsaturated fat (vegetable oil). Instead of creaming the fat and sugar, we whisked them tog...

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