Cookies | Christmas | Pistachios
These buttery and crunchy Christmas tree cookies packed with toasted pistachios and drizzled with white chocolate will look great on your festive cookie tray.
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You will adore these simple pistachio cookies, made from shortbread dough which gives flaky cookies that melts in the mouth. Pistachio are star of this recipe making these cookies amazingly rich in taste, crunchy and decorative.
If you are looking for more festive cookies, check out our recipe for simple gluten-free Christmas cookies.
Nuts are always an excellent addition to the cookie dough, making it super delicious and nutty. In this recipe we use pistachios, lightly toasted in the oven to accent these amazing sweet flavour specific for pistachios.
Raw pistachios can be found at grocery stores or health food stores. If you can find them you can order easily quality pistachios online. If you love pistachio desserts why not to try our recipes for amazing muffins or rich chocolate truffles, both enriched with toasted pistachios.
Toasting pistachios in the oven deepens that beautiful pistachio aroma and makes them much more fragrant in the final cookies.
Making these cookies is easy and quick once you have ready all the ingredients. For the cookie dough and decoration your will need:
First toast the pistachios and then process them in a food processor to get coarse texture. Combine flour, sugar and salt in one bowl. Add cold butter cutted into smaller pieces and rub using your fingers until you get a coarse crumbs. Now, add egg yolk and grated lemon zest and form a dough. Leave it to set in the fridge for 1 hour.
Rolling the dough is the fun part of the making these cookies. You can do this on a floured work surface or a pastry mat.
We prefere crispy cookies so we rolled out the dough thinly (3 - 4mm). Be sure to use quality rolling pin to ensure even dough thickness. For cutting our cookies we used 7cm (8 inch) Christmas tree cookie cutter. Cut as much as possible cookies from the dough then knead the scraps again and cut again cookies as much as possible.
From this dough we get 24 large cookies. If you prefer smaller cookies use smaller Christmas tree cookie cutter or any other cutter design you prefer.
These cookies are not only delicious but also attractive. Once they are baked and fully cooled let's decorate them. First melt white chocolate over the double boiler then drizzle it over the cookies.
In the end sprinkle the cookies with remaining pistachios to make them more decorative. Leave to set then serve these amazing Christmas cookies.
These cookies stores well in a airtight cookie-jar like this one. Also you can keep them in a metal box for 1 month. These cookies also freeze well but don't decorate them - just cookies.
These cookies are also great for making ahead. Once you cut the cookies, place them on the small tray and put in the freezer for 15 minutes then transfer to a ziplock bag. Once you want to prepare them, leave for 5-6 minutes at room temperature then bake as described in the recipe and decorate afterwards.
Keep baked and decorated cookies in an airtight container for up to 5 days (layer with parchment or waxed paper to keep the decorations in tact).
The dough does not require refrigeration, however if you want you can make it up to 2 days ahead of time. Wrap tightly in two layers of plastic wrap and keep chilled. Before rolling, bring the dough fully to room temperature (let it sit out 1 to 2 hours), otherwise it will crack as you try to roll it.
Pistachio Christmas Tree CookiesMAKES: 24 cookies
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