PISTACHIO COOKIES | CREAM CHEESE ROUNDS

These cookies are so soft, moist and delicious cookies!  They are my most popular cookie.

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter (softened and cut into pats)
• 8 ounce package cream cheese
• .75 cups white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1.5 teaspoons vanilla
• 2.25 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• .50 teaspoon salt
• 3.4 ounce package pistachio pudding mix (regular, but if you can't find regular, it's okay to use instant)
• 1/2 cup chopped pistachios

Optional

• .50 cup chocolate chips

Tools

• cookie sheets
• stand mixer
• cookie scoop

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Cream butter, cream cheese and sugar in a mixer until combined
3. Add egg and vanilla and beat until mixed
4. Add flour, baking powder, pistachio pudding mix and salt and mix until combined
5. Stir in pistachios - the batter will be hard to stir
6. Use a medium cookie scoop and place balls on cookie sheets
7. Bake in middle of oven for 15 min, check after 12 - as we all have different ovens. They should be a little soft to the touch and slightly browned on the edges.  Let them rest on cookie sheet for 5 minutes before removing to wire rack
8. Optional:  If dipping some of the cookies in chocolate, melt chocolate in microwave for 30 second intervals, stirring after each 30 seconds.  My chocolate took 1 minute 30 seconds to melt
9. Full instructions visit: https://dishesdelish.com/cream-cheese-pistachio-cookies/