Nick Malgieri

Pistachio-Filled Butter Cookies

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Preparation info

  • 36

    cookies
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Baker's Tour: Nick Malgieri's Favorite Baking Recipes from Around the World
A Baker's Tour

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2005

  • About

These cookies are frequently made in carved wooden molds. You can give them the same characteristic marks by using a fork to indent the top and side of each cookie. Not only are the indentations attractive, but they help the confectioners’ sugar sprinkled on the cookies stay in place.

Ingredients

Dough

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour (spoon flour into dry-measure cup and level off)
  • 14 tablespoons (1¾ sticks)

Method

  1. Set racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees.
  2. Place the flour in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade and add the chunks of butter. Pulse to mix the butter in finely, keeping the mixture powdery. Take