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Pistachio Crescent Cookies

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You're whisking egg whites and folding them into a nutty mixture made from finely chopped pistachios, almonds, powdered sugar, and vanilla. The best part is shaping the dough into little crescents with slightly damp hands and pressing each one into extra chopped pistachios for a crunchy coating—then they're ready for a quick 15-minute bake at 170°C until the edges turn golden.

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    Whisk the egg whites

    Crack the egg whites into a tall bowl and add a pinch of salt. Start whisking, and in no time you'll have nice stiff peaks.


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    Chop the nuts

    Finely chop the pistachios and almonds. Mine ended up almost like flour, with the odd bigger piece here and there — and that worked really well for the flavour too.


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    Flavour and mix

    Mix the chopped nuts with the sugar, then scrape a little vanilla out of the vanilla pod. Combine everything with the egg whites and mix thoroughly.


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Pistachio Crescent Cookies

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Active time total 35 min
Prep 20 min Cook 15 min

6 Ingredients

6 Steps

Hard Difficulty

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About this recipe

So good you'll be eating them straight off the plate first. You know how it is :d. This batch made 36 (I like my Christmas cookies on the smaller side). I'm really happy with these crescents, they're wonderful (is there anything pistachios don't make better?), and I finally got round to baking again after a while — my very first Christmas cookies of the year. So go ahead and give them a try :), they're really simple.

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