Pistachio Shortbread

These buttery, nutty cookies are hard to resist.

Has anyone baked the Pistachio Shortbread recipe that’s posted (highlighted) on this site? If so, is it great? My husband is not fond of pistachios, but he loves cashews, so I was thinking of substituting cashews instead....

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Here is a link to one of my new favorite cookies—it is a shortbread with dried cranberries and pistachios. I’ve never been able to coerce my dough logs into squares, but they’re just as pretty round. http

Having traveled and eaten little outside of the southeastern United States, I’m no expert, but darned if the Pistachio Shortbread cookies at Greenlife Grocery in Asheville aren’t the best such cookie—hell, maybe...

How about adding some of them into a pesto instead of pine nuts? Or a pistachio baklava? There is a CHOW recipe floating around for pistachio shortbread cookies, too. I’m really not sure how your pistachio mush would turn...

The pistachio shortbread on this site, in the Chowhound recipes , is amazing and easy. It is even more popular with the squares partially dipped in melted dark chocolate. The recipe uses butter, but is more than acceptable made...

The best shortbread ever was imported from somewhere in Europe and I bought it in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was so long ago ... maybe before the Beatles broke up. I remember every bite after all these years....

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, but was hardly anything special. It felt a lot like the hot version of a salad. Dessert was a strange chocolate cake layered on pistachio shortbread and topped with a scoop of basil gelato. Again, not a combination that worked...