Pistachio Butter Cookies

Don’t tell the other cookies in this book, but these green beauties may be my hands-down favorite. The recipe practically invented itself on a wintry Sunday morning in my kitchen. Once I had ground the pistachios into a gorgeous olive-oily paste, a dose of the darkest brown sugar seemed like the only appropriate contrast. Flooded with a tongue-happying salty-nutty flavor and plenty of baked-in sugary crystals, the chewy result is borderline indescribable. Okay, I’m stopping now.