I was going for those picture-perfect cookies you see on social media that make you want to bake them—a beautifully rounded thumbprint cookie with a small indentation filled with melted salted caramel baking chips. Although they didn’t turn out the way I had hoped, they are still tasty!
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 hr |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 40 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 cookies |
Ingredients
- ½ cup roasted and salted shelled pistachios, divided
- ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- ⅓ cup white sugar
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon water
- ½ cup salted caramel baking chips
Instructions
- Place the pistachios in the bowl of a food processor and grind until finely ground, stopping before it turns into butter. Set aside.
- Combine butter and sugar in a bowl and beat with an electric mixer until creamy. Add almond extract and mix in well. Add 3 tablespoons ground pistachios, flour, and salt; mix until the dough comes together.
- Place dough on a piece of plastic wrap that has been sprinkled with flour. Wrap up and place in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Combine egg and water in a bowl and beat with a fork. Place remaining ground pistachios in a separate bowl. Shape the dough into 12 equal balls. Roll in the beaten egg and then in the ground pistachios. Set balls 2 inches apart onto the prepared baking sheet.
- Make an indentation in the middle of each ball with your thumb or the handle of a wooden spoon. Place 5 to 6 baking chips in each indentation.
- Bake in the preheated oven until lightly browned, about 20 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet before removing.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 204 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 20 g |
| Cholesterol | 36 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 7 g |
| Sodium | 50 mg |
| Sugars | 11 g |
| Fat | 13 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |