Holiday Spumoni Cookies
These scrumptious cookies are made with pistachio nuts, unsweetened chocolate and maraschino cherries.
Ingredients
1 | cup |
butter
softened |
|
½ | cup |
sugar
|
|
1 | teaspoon |
vanilla extract
|
|
1 | large |
eggs
|
|
2 ¼ | cups |
all-purpose flour
|
|
¼ | cup |
pistachio nuts
or toasted almonds, chopped |
|
6 | drops |
food coloring
green |
* |
1 | ounces |
unsweetened chocolate
unweetened chocolate, melted, cooled |
|
2 | tablespoons |
maraschino cherries
drained, finely chopped |
* |
½ | teaspoon |
salt
|
Directions
Mix butter, sugar, vanilla and eggs. Stir in flour and salt.


Divide dough into 3 equal parts.


Mix nuts and food coloring in one part. Mix chocolate into 1 part. Mix cherries into remaining part.


Line bottom and ends of loaf pan (9x5x3) with aluminum foil, allowing ends of foil to extend 5-inches over each end of pan.
Press nut dough evenly in bottom of pan.
Press chocolate dough on top of nut dough. Press cherry dough on top of chocolate dough.


Cover dough with extended ends of foil. Refrigerate at least 2 hours but no longer than six weeks.
Heat oven to 375℉ (190℃).
Remove foil and dough from pan; remove foil.
Cut dough crosswise into ¼ inch slices; cut each slice into half.


Place about 1-inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake cookies until set, about 10 minutes. Immediately remove from cookie sheet.


Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 9g (0.3 oz)
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