Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chocolate coconut pistachio cookies. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chocolate Coconut Pistachio Cookies is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Chocolate Coconut Pistachio Cookies is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
These coconut pistachio cookies strike the right balance between crunchy and chewy textures and will be a huge hit with friends and family. I altered my mom's famous chocolate chip cookie recipe to accommodate two of my favorite flavors, coconut and pistachio. Pistachios and white chocolate chips put a different spin on traditional chocolate chip cookies.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chocolate coconut pistachio cookies using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Coconut Pistachio Cookies:
- Take 2/3 cup light brown sugar
- Get 1 cup butter
- Take 1 tsp coconut extract
- Prepare 1 egg, beaten
- Make ready 2 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- Make ready 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- Prepare 1/4 cup sweetened flaked coconut
- Make ready 3/4 cup finely chopped pistachio nuts plus 1/2 cup for garnish
- Take 3/4 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
- Get 1 tbsp canola oil
Instead of artificial pistachio pudding mix, flavor these pistachio cookies with real pistachios and almond extract. Brown butter icing is optional, but it's Last year, I shared my favorite Pistachio Cake and Pistachio Chocolate Chunk Cookies. And I always make Pistachio Cupcakes this time of year. Little cookies full of coconut & pistachios and covered in chocolate.
Steps to make Chocolate Coconut Pistachio Cookies:
- In a medium saucepan over low heat, melt butter and brown sugar together until melted and combined thoroughly. When melted remove from heat and add coconut extract. Set aside to cool and let stand for 15 minutes.
- Once cooled add the brown sugar mixture to a large bowl. Mix in beaten egg, flour, and cocoa powder. Stir well then add in pistachio nuts and coconut.
- Once completely mixed shape dough into a ball and wrap in saran wrap. Refrigerate for 30 minutes to an hour.
- Once dough is chilled, preheat oven to 350°. Prepare a baking sheet by lining it with parchment paper or just use a plain ungreased baking sheet.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll half the dough at a time to 1/4" thickness. Cut out cookies using whichever shaped cookie cutter you like. Place cutout cookies on the baking sheet about 1" apart from each other.
- Bake at 350° for 9 1/2 minutes or until firm. Allow cookies to cool for 2 minutes before removing from baking sheet, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Garnish
- In a small saucepan heat the chocolate chips and canola oil over low heat until melted and well combined. Remove from heat. Dip half of each cookie into the chocolate and then into the 1/2 cup of remaining pistachio nuts. Let cookies dry and set on a piece of parchment paper, wax paper or foil. You can also stick them in the fridge on a baking sheet to set faster.
- ** Recipe adapted from Better Home and Gardens**
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