Chocolate-Dipped Spritz Washboards With Pistachios
- dough recipe with substitutions and an ingredient elimination
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon pure almond extract
- 7 to 8 ounces good bittersweet (60% cacao) chocolate
- 1/4 cup finely chopped salted pistachios
- A cookie press fitted with a 1 1/2-inch-long straight fluted opening; 2 large baking sheets
- Heat oven to 350u0b0F with rack in middle.
- Make Buttery Sugar Cookie dough as directed, with the following exceptions:
- the egg.
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar for the granulated sugar and
- 3/4 teaspoon almond extract for the 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
- Pack the cylinder of the press with some of the dough. Proceed according to the cookie press instructions. Pipe the dough in 3-inch-long strips onto a large ungreased baking sheet, spacing them 1 inch apart. Use a paring knife to cut the dough free from the cookie press.
- Freeze or chill the cookies on the baking sheet until firm.
- Bake until edges are pale golden, 7 to 10 minutes. Cool on sheets 2 minutes, then transfer cookies with a metal spatula to racks to cool.
- Continue to pipe, chill, and bake more spritz washboards in batches with remaining dough (pipe and chill on second sheet while first sheet is baking; cool baking sheets between batches and use fresh parchment paper).
- Melt chocolate (see Cooks' Notes) in a deep metal bowl set over a pan of barely simmering water, stirring occasionally until smooth. Remove bowl from the pan. Use a folded towel to tilt the bowl slightly, so that the melted chocolate is deep enough for dipping the cookies.
- Put pistachios in a shallow bowl.
- Set cooling racks on baking sheets.
- Dip cookies, one at a time, in chocolate so that it coats about half the cookie on the diagonal, then scrape off the excess chocolate from the bottom of the cookie against the rim of the bowl.
- Sprinkle the chocolate with some pistachios and arrange the cookies on the racks.
- Let cookies stand at room temperature until the chocolate has set, about 1 hour.
recipe with substitutions, sugar, bittersweet, pistachios, baking sheets
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/chocolate-dipped-spritz-washboards-with-pistachios-387471 (may not work)