Robin Miller’s Pistachio-Cherry Sugar Cookies are a simple way to incorporate some decadent holiday flavor into an already-tasty treat.
These cookies follow a concept that we believe all recipes should try to follow: take something delicious, find more delicious stuff, and put them together to make something even more delicious. Watch and see how Robin takes simple sugar cookie dough and creates a delicious holiday treat with a few simple additions.
Yes, we know, baking enthusiasts that it’s sacrilege to use pre-made cookie dough, but sometimes there’s nothing wrong with taking the easy route. The whole point of this recipe is to have delicious cookies in about 20 minutes from start to finish. So yes, you could make these cookies completely from scratch, and the end product may very well be better, but since you’re really trying to feature the pistachio and cherry flavor, the sugar cookie should be simple and easy.
There is one tweak we’d make on the recipe as Robin presents it: for our taste, these cookies are better if you really give the nuts a more fine chop than Robin does. She say you can leave larger pieces, even some whole nuts. For our taste, the flavor was more evenly distributed with a finer chopped nut, and when we bit into large pieces of pistachio, it covered up all the other flavors. Either way, try each way for yourself and see what you like better.
One other recommendation: only dip half of the batch of cookies into the white chocolate. There are some sweet-toothed folks out there who will argue that you can never have cookies that are too sweet. We here at RecipeHub say “Welllll…..” so that’s why we recommend splitting the batch 50-50 so people can sate their sweet teeth, and others can enjoy a sugar cookie without the extra sugar coating. But that may just be us.
