PISTACHIO SPRITZ PINWHEELS

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Dollops of dark chocolate are piped into the centers of these buttery pistachio spritz cookies.

Provided by Martha Stewart

Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes Cookie Recipes

Time 2h

Yield Makes about 32

Number Of Ingredients 9

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Ingredients

3/4 cup (3 ounces) toasted unsalted shelled pistachios
3/4 cup confectioners' sugar
2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon pure almond extract
3 to 5 drops green gel-paste food color, such as leaf green
2 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1 ounce bittersweet chocolate, melted

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Pulse pistachios with 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar in a food processor until finely ground.
With a mixer on medium speed, beat butter with remaining 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in extracts and food color. Reduce speed to low; add flour, salt, and pistachio mixture and beat until combined. Add 3 tablespoons water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until dough is smooth and pliable (so it will push through press).
Divide dough in half; spoon half into a cookie press fitted with a pinwheel design. Press cookies (2 pushes of spritzer), 1 inch apart, onto a baking sheet lined with a nonstick baking mat. Repeat with remaining dough and another lined baking sheet.
Bake, rotating sheets once, until edges are pale golden, about 14 minutes. Let cookies cool on sheets 1 minute, then transfer to a wire rack; let cool completely.
Place melted chocolate in a small piping bag fitted with a small writing tip, or a resealable plastic bag with a corner snipped off. Pipe chocolate in center of each cookie and let set, about 1 hour. Cookies can be stored in an airtight container, between sheets of parchment or waxed paper, up to 1 week.

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Issahaku Elliasu Dinchana

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Overall, I thought these cookies were pretty good. They were easy to make and they tasted good, but they weren't my favorite.

pepetual horatus

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I'm not sure what went wrong, but my cookies didn't turn out as expected. They were still tasty, but they didn't look as pretty as the ones in the pictures.