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Receta It's Cookie Season, And So It's All About The Make-Ahead, Bake-Ahead Chocolate Pistachio Cookies.
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Ingredientes
- 3/4 cup plus 2 Tbs powdered (confectioners) sugar
- 1 pinch of salt.
- 1 egg
- 6 Tbs unsweetened cocoa powder. (once again use the best cocoa you can get your mitts on, trust me it 's worth it.)
- 2 1/4 cups of flour
- 3/4 cup blanched pistachios
- zest of 1 orange
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