Perfect Pistachio Cookies
You know I love a good cookie recipe. I basically built my whole business around my cookie obsession. I mean find what you love, right? Anyhow, over the coarse of the almost TEN YEARS I feel like I have perfected the art of the cookie. At least, I have perfected MY version of the perfect cookie. Chocolate Chip, Snickerdoodle, White Chocolate…yep, I’ve made them all hundreds of times. So coming up with new, and interesting cookie recipes over the last few years has gotten a little tougher. I have to get more and more creative…which is cool, I’m all about a challenge.
Perfect Pistachio CookiesWhat Makes These Special?Ingredients:How To Make These Pistachio Cookies:TIPS:Get the Recipe
Anyhow, that brings me to today’s (delicious) recipe, Salted Honey Pistachio Cookies. I generally am a no-nut kinda gal…especially in cookies. I do make an exception from time to time, though. And pistachios are the perfect excuse to go nuts in.
What Makes These Special?
These easy pistachio cookies are packed with flavor! I browned the butter, so there’s that. I also included coarse sea salt and honey to give them a different type of sweetness. AND white chocolate, because why not. You could also, certainly, use dark chocolate chips or semi-sweet chips in these cookies. Yes, totally.
Ingredients:
Butter. I prefer salted butter in this recipe because it really pairs with the pistachios! Light brown sugar Granulated sugar Honey Large egg Vanilla extract Coarse sea salt Baking soda All purpose flour Chopped pistachios White chocolate chips optional – flaked sea salt for garnish
How To Make These Pistachio Cookies:
TIPS:
When you brown the butter, just let it cool for a bit. You don’t want it to be piping hot. The coarse sea salt throughout the cookie adds little pockets of salty. If you don’t love this, go ahead and sub out the coarse sea salt for kosher salt. Make sure not to over-bake these. The key to getting an extra soft cookie is to take them out of the oven slightly underdone and allow them to “carry over” cook on the pan for a few minutes on the baking sheet before cooking them on a wire rack.
I love the extra flavor the browned butter and honey give to these cookie to make them really unique!
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