Pistachio Cookies

These pistachio cookies make for a great cookie not only to have with tea or coffee, but they're great during the holidays too! These cookies drizzled with some melted chocolate and chopped pistachios make a great treat:)

Course Dessert

Cuisine American, Mediterranean

Keyword Pistachio Cookies

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 15

Total Time 25

Servings cookies

Calories 222kcal

Author Sonila

Equipment

Ingredients

2 cups all purpose flour
0.5 tbsp baking powder
sea salt just a pinch
0.5 cup sugar
2 eggs
0.5 cup butter unsalted, 0.5 cup = 1 stick
⅓ cup avocado oil
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1 pistachio pudding mix packet 1 packet of 3.4 ozs
3 tbsps warm water
4 ozs pistachios divided, half for batter and half to top off at the end
2 ozs chocolate chips or nutella

Instructions

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F.
Add flour, baking powder and salt to a bowl, use a spoon to mix and set aside. This is referred to as dry ingredients.
Whisk eggs or use an electrical hand held mixer (this is what I use). Add sugar and mix well until sugar is incorporated. Add soft butter and mix until creamy. Then slowly add avocado oil and vanilla extract. This is what I refer to as the wet ingredients.
Mix the. pudding mix with the warm water or add the pudding mix to the dry ingredients, either method works fine and you can pick what you prefer.
Add the dry ingredients slowly to wet ingredients. Use a spatula instead of a mixer when it gets hard to mix. Add the pudding mix dissolved in water. You want to use very little water so the batter doesn't become too thin.
Once batter is mixed and ready, add chopped pistachios to taste. Mix to incorporate. Then using an ice cream scoop, place the batter in balls shape over parchment paper in a baking tray.
Bake cookies for 13-15 minutes until a light golden edge forms on the sides. Let cookies cool down.
Melt chocolate chips or use nutella (that's the consistency you need). Drizzle chocolate or nutella over the cookies in the shape you like. I am not a good decorator, so I tried to just do a squiggly line:). Add chopped pistachios to top off the cookies. Serve with tea, coffee, at breakfast or as afternoon treat. Enjoy:)).

Notes

Note - serving is 1 cookie per person but some people can't stop just at one. Also, cookie size is based on my ice cream scoop, so if you're using a bigger or smaller scoop you might get a different size cookie.

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