Pistachio Thumbprint Cookies
- Ready In:
- 52mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Yields:
-
54 cookies
ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1⁄3 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3⁄4 teaspoon almond extract (optional)
- 2 cups flour
- 1 (3 1/2 ounce) package instant pistachio pudding mix
- 1⁄2 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
- 2 cups finely chopped pecans
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Filling
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 -3 tablespoons milk
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Glaze
- 1⁄2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 2 teaspoons vegetable shortening
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl of an electric mixer, beat together butter and sugar on high speed until smooth, about 4 minutes.
- Add egg and extracts; mix well.
- In another bowl, combine flour and pudding and add to the butter mixture.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Shape into 1-inch balls; roll in nuts.
- Place 2 inches apart on greased baking sheets.
- Make a thumbprint in center of each cookie and bake for 12 minutes or until golden brown on the bottom.
- Position a wire rack inside a large baking pan or over sheets of wax paper.
- Remove cookies from oven, place on wire rack to cool.
- To prepare filling, in a large bowl of an electric mixer, beat together butter and confectioners' sugar on high speed until smooth, about 2 minutes.
- Stir in vanilla and milk; mix until combined and smooth.
- Spoon into center of cooled cookies.
- Leave cookies on rack to glaze.
- To prepare glaze, in microwave oven or over very low heat, melt chocolate and shortening.
- Stir until smooth, taking care not to scorch the chocolate.
- Bunch cooled cookies together on cooling rack and drizzle chocolate over them in a very thin stream, crossing back and forth over cookies to form chocolate lace.
- For simple drizzling, hold a small spoonful of chocolate about 6 inches above the rack; release a thin stream of chocolate as you move the spoon back and forth quickly over the cookies.
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