Confectioners tempt us with croissants, donuts, cakes and cookies with pistachio paste. No wonder – pistachio baked goods have become an absolute hit, winning the hearts and palates of gourmets. In this recipe, we will also reach for this green treasure to create crunchy cookies with an incomparable taste.
In stores we will find not only pistachio peanuts, but also Ready products prepared on their basis. Speech paste and pistachio cream. How are they different?
Pistachio paste is formed by blending pistachios with a small amount of oil. In turn, the cream is nothing but a combination of peanuts with milk powder and sugar.
We use pistachio paste to prepare brittle cakes – we partially replace butter. Like it, the paste has a lot of fat and its consistency is lumpy. That is why these little pastries will come out very delicate, and their taste will be insane.
Ingredients:
- 200 g of wheat flour;
- 50 g of potato flour;
- 100 g of butter;
- 50 g of powdered sugar;
- 1 yolk;
- 4 tablespoons of pistachio paste;
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar.
Preparation:
To make shortbread pistachio cakes, at the beginning we combine in a bowl of flour and powdered sugar. Then add butter to them, which we previously cut into pieces. Remember to make it chilled.
We rub everything to get a crumble. We add yolk, pistachio paste and vanilla sugar to such a mass.
In the next step we knead all the ingredients, a We wrap the resulting dough in foil and put in the fridge for 30 minutes. After this time, we tear off small pieces from which We begin to form small flattened balls.
Place the brittle cookies prepared in this way on a baking tray lined with baking paper and We bake them for about 15 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees Celsius.
Nothing prevents you from adding pistachio paste to the mass, but even Favorite nuts or small pieces of white chocolate. We can also squeeze into them cranberry, and only finally pour or sprinkle with powdered sugar.
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