Most people know I love to cook. You should see my Pinterest boards! I started with just a recipe board, but it's quickly grown, and now I have one for desserts/treats, breakfasts, and soups. I'm getting pretty close to adding another one for salads. Anyway, what's the point of having all these recipes/ideas if you never try them, so...
Sunday I made pistachio shortbread cookies - delightful! I actually made the dough Saturday after we got back from the grocery store and we had some time before we needed to pick up Kailyn from ACT test - hope she did well! Then Sunday all I had to do was slice and bake. Super easy!
Pistachio Shortbread
1 cup unsalted butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 3/4 cups flour
1/4 cup cornstarch
1 cup shelled pistachios
Cream together softened butter, sugar, and vanilla. Then add the flour and cornstarch. Finally add the pistachios, but do so gently - you want the nuts to stay whole. Turn the dough onto a sheet of saran wrap and roll into a log and put in refrigerator. When you're ready to bake - preheat oven to 350*. Then slice the log into cookies - about 1/4" thick. Cookies need to bake about 12 min.
These turned out so well. I had to carefully pack some up for Kelsie's Valentine's box, which I mailed today. Hopefully they make it safe & sound - shortbread cookies are so delicate - makes them special.
