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You'll whip egg whites into stiff peaks and combine them with finely chopped pistachios and almonds for a simple, delicious dough that comes together quickly. The fun part is shaping little crescents with damp hands and pressing them into crushed pistachios before a quick 15-minute bake — these are so irresistible you'll be sneaking them off the plate right away.

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Whip the egg whites

Crack the egg whites into a tall mixing bowl and add a pinch of salt. Start whisking and in no time you'll have nice stiff peaks.
Ingredients
- 75 gram Egg White
- 2 gram Salt
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Chop the nuts

Finely chop the pistachios and almonds. Mine came out almost like flour, with the occasional bigger piece here and there — it worked great for texture and flavour too.
Ingredients
- 160 gram Pistachios (unsalted)
- 230 gram Almonds (unsalted)
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Flavour and mix everything together

Mix the chopped nuts with the sugar and scrape in a little vanilla from the vanilla pod. Combine everything with the egg whites and stir thoroughly.
Ingredients
- 1 piece Vanilla Bean
- 135 gram Powdered Sugar

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Shape the crescents

With damp hands, shape the mixture into little crescents (this keeps the dough from sticking too much), then press each one into the remaining chopped pistachios before placing it on the baking tray.
Ingredients
- 50 gram Pistachios (unsalted)
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Arrange on the tray

Space the crescents about 3 cm apart on the tray — they don't spread much during baking, so there's no need to worry about them sticking together.
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Bake

Bake in a preheated oven at 170°C for 15 minutes, until the edges turn lightly golden.

Pistachio Crescent Cookies

Name: Delightful Pistachio Crescent Cookies
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 36
Cuisine: Austrian
Ingredients: 75 gram Egg White; 1 piece Vanilla Bean; 2 gram Salt; 210 gram Pistachios (unsalted); 230 gram Almonds (unsalted); 135 gram Powdered Sugar

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Prep 20 min Cook 15 min

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About this recipe

So good you'll be picking them off the plate before anything else. You know how it is :). This batch made 36 (I like my cookies on the smaller side). I'm really happy with these little crescents, they're absolutely delicious (is there anything pistachios don't make better?), and I baked them after a bit of a break — my first Christmas cookies of the year. So go ahead and give them a try :), they're really simple to make.

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