This hermit cookie recipe is an old standby.

It is a great combination of sweet and spicy, with nuts and raisins for texture.

It has always been one of my favorite homemade cookies.

Hermit Cookie Recipe

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter or margarine, room temperature
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons instant coffee powder
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• Pinch of salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 cup raisins
• 3/4 cup chopped walnuts

Method

Tips:

• Nuts are optional of course. So are the raisins, although both really add to the taste of the cookies.
• If you use nuts, the recipe recommends walnuts, but you can be creative and substitute chopped pecans or almonds.

As always, this is an easy cookie recipe. There are no big tricks to learning to bake cookies. Just mix the ingredients together well and make sure the oven is preheated before you bake them.

Watch any baking carefully to make sure it doesn’t burn.

As cookies go, these are fairly healthy. To make them even more healthy, use whole wheat flour for all or at least 1/2 of the amount called for. I always recommend sifting the flour first to remove some of the loose bran in the whole wheat flour. It makes great cookies.

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