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Pistachio and White Chocolate Shortbread - creamy chocolate and crunchy pistachios take this vegan shortbread to a whole new level of sublime! So moreish, you'll be making these again and again! Recipe on thecookandhim.com

Pistachio and White Chocolate Shortbread

Prep: 15 mins | Cook: 15 mins | Total: 30 mins | Quantity: 30 cookies (approx.)

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup (50g) shelled pistachios
  • 1/2 cup (75g) dairy free white chocolate – chips if you can get them otherwise break the bar into smallish chunks
  • 1 cup (150g) vegan spread
  • 1/2 cup (80g) coconut sugar
  • 2 cups (250g) plain soft flour

Optional topping

  • 1 tblsp shelled pistachios – roughly chopped
  • few squares of dairy free white chocolate

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 170 Fan / 190 C / 375 Fan / Gas 5 and line a couple of large baking trays with parchment or silicon mats
  2. Put the shelled pistachios and white chocolate into a food processor and whizz until very finely chopped.  The finer you can get it the easier it is to roll out the cookies!  Otherwise you're rolling out round all the lumpy bumpy bits!!
  3. Set aside while you make the dough.  Either by hand using a wooden spoon or in a stand mixer, cream together the vegan spread and coconut sugar till soft and well blended
  4. Scrape down the sides of the bowl then add the flour and gently mix in
  5. When nearly all mixed together add the chopped nuts and chocolate and give a final few stirs until all well combined
  6. Tip the dough out onto a floured surface and roll out to around 1/2 cm thick.  Cut into shapes - I used a 6cm / 2 inch round cutter - or cut into fingers with a sharp knife.  Gently lift onto your baking trays - you can put them quite close together as they don't really spread
  7. Using a fork prick a couple of lines of holes into each cookie then pop in the oven and bake for 15 minutes - they should be very lightly golden and still a little soft as they firm up as they cool
  8. Leave to completely cool
  9. To decorate simply melt the chocolate in the microwave or over a bain-marie (a dish set over a pan of barely simmering water)
  10. Drizzle or pipe the chocolate over the cookies, sprinkling with the chopped pistachios every few cookies before the chocolate sets!
  11. Enjoy!

Recipe by The Cook & Him at https://thecookandhim.com/recipes/pistachio-and-white-chocolate-shortbread/