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Pop the butter into a microwave until melted. Stir it into a bowl with both the brown and white sugars. Keep stirring until smooth and blended.
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Mix hot water into the espresso powder until smooth. Pour this mixture into your combined butter and sugars, stirring it all together.
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Drop in the egg and pour in the vanilla extract. Stir until they fully mix into the wet ingredients.
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Stir together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in the wet mixture until it forms a soft, sticky dough.
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Toss the dough into the fridge for 30 minutes. Cooling it helps make it less sticky and simpler to handle.
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Set your oven to 180°C (350°F). Lay parchment paper over a cookie sheet so it’s ready for baking.
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Scoop out bits of dough (walnut-sized). Roll them into balls and space them out on the prepared baking sheet.
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Let the cookies bake for 12 minutes. Pull them out and leave them on the sheet for 10 minutes to cool. Then move them to a rack to fully cool down.