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Saint Patrick's Pistachio Cookies Recipe

Recipe by: Kate's Kitchen

"These taste-tempting green pistachio cookies are the ideal Saint Patrick's Day treat! Two secret ingredients, avocado and applesauce, keep all the taste and texture!"

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Directions

Prep15 m
Cook15 m
Ready In35 m

1Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 3 baking sheets with parchment paper.
2Puree avocado in the bowl of a food processor. Add butter and blend until creamy. Add applesauce, sugar, and milk; pulse to combine. Add egg; pulse until smooth. Add pudding mix, vanilla extract, baking powder, and salt; pulse until dough is smooth and pastel green.
3Place pistachio nuts in a resealable freezer bag and crush with a meat mallet. Add crushed pistachio nuts and flour to dough; pulse to combine.
4Drop tablespoons of dough 2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheets; flatten gently.
5Bake in the preheated oven until bottoms are beginning to brown, about 15 minutes. Remove from oven and cool on baking sheets, 5 to 10 minutes.

Footnotes

Cook's Note:
Grease baking sheets lightly instead of lining with parchment paper, if preferred.
Substitute vanilla extract with the scraped seeds of 1 fresh vanilla bean, or 1/8 teaspoon of pistachio flavoring.
I flatten the cookies with the end of the pusher from your food processor. If you don't flatten the cookies, they'll bake up in softly flattened mounds; they're lovely either way.

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