Chocolate Pistachio Cookies
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
-
15 cookies
- Serves:
- 7
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 2 large egg yolks, lightly beaten
- 3 ounces semisweet chocolate, melted and cooled
- 4 ounces salted shelled pistachios, ground to a paste in a food processor (about 1 cup)
- 1 large egg white
- 1⁄8 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 pinch coarse salt
- 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
- 1 tablespoon vegetable shortening
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For the garnish
- slivered unsalted, shelled pistachios (optional)
directions
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Make filling:
- Bring 1/4 cup sugar and 1/4 cup water to a simmer in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring until sugar has dissolved; set aside.
- Put egg yolks in the heatproof bowl of an electric mixer set over a pan of simmering water. Whisk by hand until yolks are warm to the touch, about 2 minutes.
- Fit mixer with the whisk attachment. Mix yolks on medium speed; pour in sugar syrup.
- Raise speed to high; mix until mixture is cool and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
- Reduce speed to medium; drizzle in melted chocolate.
- Refrigerate until firm, about 45 minutes.
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Make cookies:
- Put pistachio paste and rest of sugar in the clean bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment.
- Mix on medium speed until smooth.
- Mix in the egg white, vanilla, and salt.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Transfer dough to a pastry bag fitted with a small (about 1/4 inch) plain round tip (such as Ateco #10).
- Pipe 1-inch rounds onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, spacing about 1 inch apart.
- Bake cookies until firm and golden around edges, about 10 minutes.
- Transfer on parchment to a wire rack, and let cool completely.
- Place cookies, bottom sides up, on a wire rack set over a baking sheet. Spread 1 to 1 1/2 teaspoons chocolate filling on bottom of half of the cookies. Sandwich with remaining cookies.
- Freeze 1 hour.
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Make glaze:
- Melt chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat.
- Add shortening; stir until combined.
- Let cool, stirring, until mixture is lukewarm.
- Using a chocolate fork or regular fork, hold 1 cookie at a time above bowl of chocolate glaze. Spoon glaze over cookie, letting excess drip back into bowl.
- Transfer to a wire rack set over a baking sheet.
- Garnish with slivered pistachios.
- Refrigerate until set, 5 minutes.
- Cookies can be refrigerated in single layers in airtight containers up to 3 days.
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