Orange Shortbread Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup unsalted, roasted, shelled pistachios
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, chopped
1 cup powdered sugar, sifted
1 1/2 None flour, sifted
2 tbsp cornstarch
3/4 cup ground almonds
2 tbsp orange blossom water
1/3 cup powdered sugar, sifted, for dusting

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 300\u00b0F. Grease 2 baking pans. Finely chop one third of pistachios, leave remaining nuts whole.
Beat butter and sugar in a small bowl with an electric mixer for 1 min, or until combined. Stir in flours, chopped pistachios and almonds.
Shape level tablespoons of mixture into mounds and place about 1 inch apart on prepared pans. Press a whole pistachio on each.
Bake for about 25 mins, or until firm. Transfer to wire racks. Brush with orange blossom water; let stand for 5 mins. Dust with powdered sugar; cool.