Can you believe Christmas is less than a week away? We’re finally in the home stretch and my holiday baking is kicking into high gear. Each holiday season there are 5 to 6 cookies that I always make. Friends, family, and neighbors can count on getting Double Chocolate Treasures, Pecan Tassies and a few other favorites. Every year I try to mix things up a bit and try a couple of new cookie recipes. I think I have found a new favorite in these Chocolate Dunked Pistachio Shortbread Cookies. They encompass everything you want in a cookie. Biting into the tender butter cookie and getting that bit of sweet chocolate and crunch from the pistachios is total perfection.
When doing my holiday baking, it’s important that I have the right tools like a Stainless Steel Cookie Dropper from Good Cook, to ensure all of my cookies are the same size. As a Good Cook Kitchen Expert I am participating in the Goodcook.com Sweet Creations Cookie Exchange, and received some fabulous new baking supplies to share this recipe with you.
ingredients:
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 plus 1/3 cup raw unsalted pistachios, coarsely chopped, divided
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 ounces high-quality bittersweet chocolate, chopped
directions:
Position a rack in center of the oven and preheat to 325°F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt in medium bowl and set aside. In a large bowl using an hand mixer or in a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar until smooth. Add 1/2 cup pistachios and vanilla. Beat in flour mixture until just combined.
Shape tablespoonfuls of dough into logs about 3 inches long. Place on baking sheet, leaving about 1 inch of room between each cookie. Bake until golden brown around edges, 18-20 minutes. Cool completely.
Put chopped chocolate in a double boiler set over barely-simmering water. Stir chocolate until melted and smooth, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Place remaining 1/3 cup pistachios in a small shallow bowl. Dip one end of each cookie in the melted chocolate about 1-1 1/2 inches deep. Let excess chocolate drip back into bowl, then roll chocolate-coated end in chopped pistachios. Repeat with the rest of the cookies. Let stand until chocolate has hardened, at least one hour. Cookies will keep in airtight container up to 1 week.
This recipe yields 1 1/2 dozen cookies and can easily be doubled.
Recipe Source: Food52
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Chocolate Dunked Pistachio Shortbread Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/2 plus 1/3 cup raw unsalted pistachios, coarsely chopped, divided
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 ounces high-quality bittersweet chocolate, chopped
Instructions
Position a rack in center of the oven and preheat to 325°F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt in medium bowl and set aside. In a large bowl using an hand mixer or in a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar until smooth. Add 1/2 cup pistachios and vanilla. Beat in flour mixture until just combined.
Shape tablespoonfuls of dough into logs about 3 inches long. Place on baking sheet, leaving about 1 inch of room between each cookie. Bake until golden brown around edges, 18-20 minutes. Cool completely.
Put chopped chocolate in a double boiler set over barely-simmering water. Stir chocolate until melted and smooth, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Place remaining 1/3 cup pistachios in a small shallow bowl. Dip one end of each cookie in the melted chocolate about 1-1 1/2 inches deep. Let excess chocolate drip back into bowl, then roll chocolate-coated end in chopped pistachios. Repeat with the rest of the cookies. Let stand until chocolate has hardened, at least one hour. Cookies will keep in airtight container up to 1 week.
This recipe yields 1 1/2 dozen cookies and can easily be doubled.
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Those look delicious. I love pistachios.
yum yum yum! i love pistachio!!
I MUST make these!! They sound/look delicious!
This recipe sounds delicious and so easy to make. I am going to make this for my family’s Christmas party!
Yummmmm! look so good
My grandpa would have liked these. He loved pistachios and shortbread.
I WANT that cookie dropper – and I bet this would be good with almonds or pecans as well!
We love pistachios. I’m sure these cookies are yum!
I really like pistachios. These cookies look right up my alley.
These sound so so good! I’d like to have them with a hazlenut latte! Yum!
Those look delicious, Angela, and so festive too!
Pistachios are one of my favorite nuts and these look incredible!
I am a huge fan of pistachio cookies! These sound fabulous, and look great!
I am a big fan of pistachios i made my caramel apples with them. Im definitely trying this they look delicious!
Oh these look so yummy! I think I may actually have all of the ingredients on hand…hmmm… 🙂
I love pistachios! Oh I am so going to give this recipe a try. Thanks for sharing!
Those look very festive with the hint of green!
These cookies look so delicious. I think it’s a great idea to dip the cookies in pistachios as well as chocolate. I can’t wait to try this, thank you for sharing this recipe.
Those look yummy! Now to figure out if I can make them gluten free!
My husband would love these. He is a nut about pistachios!
I love shortbread cookies! These look wonderfully easy to make.
The problem here is that I would eat them ALL. The whole bag.
My father-in-law loves pistachios, so I need to make these for him.
These look great! I love pistachios and don’t find many recipes using them. Thanks for the recipe.
What a coincidence! I was just looking at a similar recipe in a magazine I bought. Looks yummy!
hush now, we have a week and a day don’t we? DON”T WE???
i need more time!!
and cookies. like these.
These look so so yummy.
These sound delicious! We might make these tomorrow night. Davey & I are having a evening of cookie making!
These remind me of some bicottis my mother made! Yum 🙂
these look great. i have had them before (but not homemade) and they were great. i got them from a bakery and these look better than the ones i got there. thanks for the recipe. i will definitely be using ths.
Pistachios are my favorite nuts. This looks very yummy have to try it soon.
My mom just recently asked me what kind of cookies I wanted to make for the holiday season this year and I was thinking something a little different than our normal go-to cookies.
This definitely is different and going on the list 😀
Wow, those look so yummy! Those would be good for me to have too since Pistachios are great for lowering cholesterol! 😉 See, I knew I could find a good excuse to have yummy treats!
Mmmm…chocolate. Thanks for the great idea for some new cookies.
These cookies look and sound delicious. I like the way you laid out the recipe for others to follow with ease and comfort.
those look delicious to go with a cup of coffee! yummy!
please send some of the cookies over to me 🙂
These are beautiful and must be just DELICIOUS!!! Love them!!
Oh these look really good. We are fans of pistachio’s!!
No, I cannot believe Christmas is almost here. Sigh. 🙂 We love pistachios so I’ll give this a try during my son’s Christmas break… now that I have some time to breathe.
I love pistachios so I would totally dig these cookies. They look yummy!
Yum! These would be perfect for New YEars!
Those look delicious! I need a cookie dropper like that, I’m guilty of having a wide variety of sizes for my cookies.
These look amazing and I am a BIG pistachi lover!
OMG these look absolutely delicious
Yum! I love shortbread, and shortbread dipped in pistachios is even better!
I love the combination of shortbread and pistachio! These look lovely and easy to make, yum!
Those sound so yummy. I would love to have one with a nice cup of chia tea!
I love shortbread and always want to share It with people, but typically it looks too “plain jane” or if it is made in a circle, a big pie slice seems too big. This is sooo perfect because It dresses them up and gives them a cute shape, they look irresistible! And easy, too. Also, this doesn’t make such a huge batch that you’ll be at it for hours and hours!!! Great recipe – I want to make it for the holiday week!
i love dipped cookies…they look flaky and crisp…yum!
These look super delicious. My grand pop loves pistachios so he would get a kick out of these.
My moms love pistachio! I should try making these for her!
Ooooh I’ll take a dozen!! 😉 So good!!
oooo pistchios are great!
These look awesome, and so different from the typical, boring cookie! I’ll have to give them a try! 🙂
I usually don’t eat shortbread cookies, but wow!
These look delicious. I might have to add these to my holiday cookies for every year. My son would love thes.
I love shortbread and really like pistachios, so these cookies are looking incredibly good. The chocolate dip adds even more goodness. Thanks for the recipe, we are going to try it.
I bet these taste really good!
I love shortbread and lately I have been using pistachios more in baking. However I have not yet made a shortbread cookie with pistachios and now that you have given me this delicious recipe I shall try it soon.
they look so pretty, and I bet the pistachios pair great with the shortbread and chocolate. I would even wrap these up and gift some of these. Would make a great gift stuck inside a mug for mothers day.
I have never heard of this recipe before but it sounds amazing.
These look delicious!! I have a craving for pistachios right now. I am going to have to add these to my list to make!
This looks like a delicious recipe. I love pistachios and chocolate and will be trying this!
These look so good. I love chocolate dipped treats. I always bake cookies for hard to people when I can’t think of good gifts to go with a gift card.