Pistachio Cookies

[Shining Wizard]

I will put a few little notes at the end that speak to the way I make them, but aren’t essential to the overall success of this recipe.

Ingredients

100gm butter, softened
25gm pistachio cream
110gm caster sugar
1 large egg
50gm plain flour
35gm self raising flour
100gm cornflour
30gm custard powder
100gm pistachio, roughly crushed
Maraschino cherries, halved (for decoration, optional)


Method
Pre-heat oven to 180c/160 fan forced
Beat butter, caster sugar, egg and pistachio cream until light and fluffy.
Stir in dry ingredients in batches, mixing well in between.
Prepare baking sheets with baking paper.
Spoon mixture onto baking sheets in small balls.
Bake for 15 minutes
Remove from oven and decorate with halved maraschino cherries, pushing down into the cookie and give a little oil spray to each to secure the cherries.
Turn off the oven and return cookies to the oven and allow to cook for a further 8 minutes as oven is cooling.

Remove from oven and allow to cool on a wire rack.

Notes

A simple trick that I use is to put your cookie dough into muffin trays. This ensures that your cookies are all evenly round. When I take out the cookies at the 15 minute mark, I use my coffee tamper to push down the cookies to make them more firm for the second 8 minute cook.

I also use the back of a measuring teaspoon to make the little well where the maraschino cherries sit in the middle.

 

[pictonguy]

Maybe supply a pistachio cream recipe.

 

[Shining Wizard]

It’s a store bought item
You can leave it out and add 25gm more butter and put in some vanilla extract instead

 

[pictonguy]

Ok, but there really is no replacement for it and it's not hard to make. Sure leave it out completely but was just suggesting if someone wanted to make it from scratch that a recipe might be helpful.

 

[dragnlaw]

Guess it's not your everyday purchase. Looked it up and sounds delicious and not hard to make. Pistachio and white chocolate... just my cup of tea!

Being pistachio makes it a bit pricey of course but you don't use that much.

Edit:
Having just read thru one reciipe I can't remember if peeled pistachio's are commonly available? Boiling, rubbing to remove the skins sounds a little daunting unless those skins come off easily and then stick to the towel. Then it would not be so bad I guess.

 

[pictonguy]

Guess it's not your everyday purchase. Looked it up and sounds delicious and not hard to make. Pistachio and white chocolate... just my cup of tea!

Being pistachio makes it a bit pricey of course but you don't use that much.

Edit:
Having just read thru one reciipe I can't remember if peeled pistachio's are commonly available? Boiling, rubbing to remove the skins sounds a little daunting unless those skins come off easily and then stick to the towel. Then it would not be so bad I guess.

Deshelled and skinless pistachio's are available pretty much everywhere, not a big deal imo.

 

[pictonguy]

I don't want to distract from Shining Wizards great recipe and I'm sure buying the cream is a decent solution, lets move on.

 

[dragnlaw]

I will be keeping an eye out for the individual packets. Supposedly hold the amount needed.
Love pistachio and maraschino cherries, a few green ones would make it look very Christmasy!

Thanks Wiz!

 

[Kathleen]

@Shining Wizard Will I need to refrigerate the cookies if I put cherries in them?

 

[Shining Wizard]

@Shining Wizard Will I need to refrigerate the cookies if I put cherries in them?

No

 

[dragnlaw]

The need to refrigerate Maraschino Cherries is only necessary when hiding them from me. I'll never think to look for them there.

 

[Shining Wizard]

I have to have a Fort Knox lock on my fridge when maraschino cherries are around.