Star Cookies with Pistachio Cream

Stacked star cookies with green pistachio cream

Star Cookies with Pistachio Cream

These star cookies with pistachio cream are made with a simple cookie dough to let the flavors of the pistachio cream really come through! Plus they're so pretty!

Course Dessert

Cuisine Italian

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 8

Servings cookies

Calories 296.59kcal

Author Pina Bresciani

Ingredients

1 cup butter at room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups all purpose flour plus extra for rolling
2 teaspoon baking powder
½ cup pistachio cream
powdered sugar for dusting

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
Add egg and vanilla extract. Beat until combined.
Add flour and baking powder and mix until dough starts to form.
Roll out dough with a rolling pin on a floured surface. Roll out to ⅛ inch thickness.
Using a star cookie cutter, cut out star shapes, rerolling and cutting scraps.
Using a smaller star cookie cutter, cut a smaller star in the center of the larger stars. Do this for half the cookies.
Arrange whole and cutout cookies on 2 parchment-lined baking sheets.
Bake on top and bottom racks for approximately 8 minutes, until the edges of the cookies start to turn golden.
Remove cookies from the oven and let them cool. Dust cutout cookies with powdered sugar if desired.
Spread pistachio cream over bottom of each whole cookie. Place cutout cookie on whole cookie, sugar side up.

Notes

If you don't want to use pistachio cream, you can substitute nutella, jam, lemon curd. Whatever filling you like! The dough is so neutral that any filling flavor will work with these cookies.
Store these cookies in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
For the larger star, I used a 3 ¼ inch star cookie cutter, and for the smaller, inner star I used a 1 ¾ inch star cookie cutter. This is the set here.

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