One of the snacks I made for my friends on Saturday night was Pistachio and Cranberry cookies. You can find the recipe on the BBC Good Food website, so I won’t plagerize it here.
Unfortunately, I made these biscuits on Photo an Hour day, and I was so focussed on taking a photo on each hour that I was halfway through the dough-making process before I realised I should probably take photos of the biscuit-making process too. I had dirty hands by that time though, so I wasn’t able to pick up my camera until the dough was almost ready.
By the way, when you get to the part of the recipe where it says “you may not to get your hands in at this stage”, replace the word may with will! Without using hands, there is no way of making the mixture into a dough.
After refrigerating, the bottoms of my rolls were a bit flat from where they’d been sitting on the plate, which meant the biscuits I cut from them weren’t exactly round…
Here they are again after baking. I left lots of space between each one in case they decided to spread, but they didn’t much.
The finished article was very tasty. The bicuits themselves taste almost like shortbread and the mixture of cranberry and pistachio is a good one. I especially liked the ones where the pistachio was on top and had been roasted slightly in the oven. Mmmm!
That’s four types of biscuits down, six more to go.
For those who missed them, here are the previous biscuits I’ve baked for the challenge:
Honey Gingerbread Biscuits
Chocolate Brownie Biscuits
Chocolate Cherry Cookies
Ooh, your lucky friends! They look good! 🙂 Toll 🙂
These would make lovely cookies for the holidays, I love pistachios 🙂
Yes, they did taste a bit Christmassy 🙂
Yum these sound amazing! I love white chocolate cranberry cookies so this sound right up my alley.
Ooh, white chocolate! I think I might try adding that next time.
Holy delicious!!! I’ve been craving pistachios lately … perfect excuse to also stuff my face with cookies?
Definitely… and you WILL stuff your face. These cookies are addicitive!
They look so good! I’d be tempted to leave them as a log and then bake them and eat THE WHOLE DAMNED THING
It was only my ongoing stomach problems that prevented me from eating most of the cookie dough raw before it ever made it to the oven 😉 Hmm, I wondered what a giant baked roll of cookie dough would end up like? Crunchy on the outside and raw in the middle maybe?
With my love for pistachios, I KNOW I’d love these! They look great! x
Haha, I actually thought of you while I was writing the post 😀
I love pistachios so much! I will try this with vegan butter! Thanks for sharing!
I made these with lactose free butter because my friend is lactose intolerant 🙂
Mmmmmm, cranberries and pistachios sound like a very tasty combination. I’m going to have to try this recipe I think.