How To Make Salted Chocolate Pistachio Shortbread
This pistachio shortbread is a step up to the classic biscuits. It’s dipped with melted chocolate and finished with a sprinkle of pistachios and sea salt.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1cupunsalted butter,softened to room temperature
- ½cupgranulated sugar
- ¼cuplight brown sugar
- 1tsppure vanilla extract
- 1tspsalt
- 2¼cupsall purpose flour,spoon & leveled
- 1cuppistachios,finely chopped, divided
- 8ozsemi sweet chocolate,coarsely chopped
- sea salt,optional for sprinkling on top
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Line two 9-inch cake pans with parchment paper leaving enough overhang around the sides to easily lift shortbread out.
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Using a hand mixer or a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter on high speed for about 1 minute until completely smooth.
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Add the granulated sugar and brown sugar and beat together for about 1 minute until smooth and creamy. Add the vanilla, salt, and flour and beat on low speed, gradually increasing to high speed as the mixture combines.
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Add ⅔ cup of the finely chopped pistachios, reserving the rest for sprinkling on top of the chocolate. The dough will be very crumbly.
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Press ½ of the dough into each of the prepared cake pans. It should be nice and compact in each pan.
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Bake the shortbread for 30 minutes or until lightly browned on top and around the edges.
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Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes. Carefully remove the shortbread from the pans by picking it up with the parchment paper on the sides.
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Cut each into 12 wedges. Make sure to cut the shortbread while it’s still warm. Allow to cool completely on the parchment before dipping into chocolate.
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Melt the chopped chocolate in the microwave in 20-second increments, stopping and stirring after each until completely smooth.
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Dip the shortbread ends into the chocolate and sprinkle with remaining chopped pistachios and sea salt. Allow chocolate to completely set.
Nutrition
- Calories: 207.00kcal
- Fat: 12.95g
- Saturated Fat: 6.84g
- Trans Fat: 0.31g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 4.16g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.13g
- Carbohydrates: 22.07g
- Fiber: 1.40g
- Sugar: 11.23g
- Protein: 2.73g
- Cholesterol: 20.34mg
- Sodium: 96.75mg
- Calcium: 13.81mg
- Potassium: 104.20mg
- Iron: 1.06mg
- Vitamin A: 65.77µg
- Vitamin C: 0.29mg
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