Pistachio White Chocolate Cookies

 

Been a while since I baked. I was meant to bake over Easter but I was sick so couldn't and been wanting to try these for ages as I'm obsessed with pistachio. I had a bag of shelled unsalted pistachios from Aldi which I spent ages de-shelling and then crushed them. I didn't use the full bag as I'd eaten most of them. I used left over white chocolate coins we still had from Christmas.

Ingredients:

125g Unsalted Butter - Softened

(Take it out over night)

100g Light Muscovado Sugar

100g Caster/White Sugar

1 Egg

1 Tsp Vanilla Extract

225g Self Raising Flour

½ Tsp Salt

50g Crushed Unsalted Pistachios

50g White Chocolate

What you need:

Mixing Bowl

2 Bowls

Wooden Spoon

Measuring Spoons

Sieve

Electric Whisk

Fork

Flat Baking Trays

Baking Paper

Oven 180°C

Baking time 7-8 minutes

Method:

Make sure you take your butter out the night before so it's nice and soft. 

Mix the butter with the 2 sugars with the wooden spoon first - as the Muscovado sugar is quite dry and lumpy - it stops it flying everywhere. Then when it's partly mixed you can use your electric whisk until it turns pale and creamy. Use your wooden spoons to check the consistency.

In a little bowl beat your egg and vanilla with a fork.

Once they have been mixed you can pour it into your mixture and using your electric whisk, whisk until well mixed. Then use your wooden spoon again to check.

Then sift your flour and salt and mix it together with your electric whisk using your wooden spoon to check consistency.

Add the pistachio and white chocolate and mix using your electric whisk. Once they have been mixed in, roll your dough into balls and place them onto your lined trays.

Bake in the oven for 7-8 minutes.

Leave them to cool on the tray for a couple of minutes then transfer onto a wire rack.

I could have done with more pistachio but because I was meant to make these over Easter I'd eaten some of the pistachios and only used what I had left. Cookies look really pale as I used light muscovado sugar rather than dark. Using light makes them not as sweet and dark is a lot more caramelised.


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Pocket Cafe

 

Went to Pocket Cafe for breakfast this morning after getting my Record Store Day - The Killers & Bruce Springsteen - Encore at the Garden vinyl! Bit of a stressful morning and not sleeping last night but it was a success and I managed to get it from Rough Trade. Got into town for 7:15am on a Saturday morning was a killer but it was worth it in the end to go with my collection of vinyl's I'm probably never going to play...

Would have been a really rubbish day if I didn't get this but all good.

After securing my vinyl I went to Pocket Cafe for breakfast

Cappuccino

Matcha Latte

The matcha was bad - it wasn't mixed properly and tasted really bitter and nothing like a matcha.

Pocket Breakfast - Cumberland sausage, streaky bacon, rosti, beans, roasted tomato, fried egg & sourdough toast - £13.95

Scandi Breakfast - Smoked salmon, rosti, dill yoghurt, gherkins & avocado - £13.95

Breakfast looked crap especially for the price of it. Mine was not worth the price at all - it was meant to come with rocket which I hate and should have asked without gherkins too as I didn't eat it. The only thing that was nice was the rosti. It's meant to a be a wellness healthy cafe but the bacon was just fat.

It was so disappointing and this came to just under £40 - £37.60. They guy gave me £2.40 change all in 10ps... And defo over charged me as well. At least it's ticked off the list now and won't be going back and was surprised at how busy it was. It's a really nice place but the food was rubbish and expensive.

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