BAKE WITH ME | PIGNOLI

BAKE WITH ME | PIGNOLI

These little Italian nuggets of joy are surprisingly so easy to make! Eating these will make you feel like you’re in the middle of the North End in Boston stuffing your face with these things!

Recipe I’m Following:

BEST Italian Pignoli Cookies Recipe (pine nut)

Cucina By Elena Video:
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We are getting some snow today which makes me want to cook and bake and be cozy so I’ve got the cooking part taken care of I’ve got some delicious beef stew on the stove that is going to be so amazing when I come in from shoveling

Now I want to bake what I’m doing today has been brought on by memories of going down to Boston going right to the North End and going to Mike’s Pastry purchasing the largest box of cookies and my favorite favorite cookies of all time from there are their pinoli cookies

Or pine nut yes they do belong on cookies not just in pesto so I wanted to make some today I’ve never made these cookies and so we’re going to play together but I will link the recipe and the Instagram account that I found this recipe from uh Down Below in the

Description check it out they look so good so I’m really hoping that things go well for me today my oven is preheating to 350 F and we can get started I’ve already plopped some almond paste in my food processor I think that my food processor is too small so this will be

Another adventure but here goes the rest of the almond paste I love marzipan so much it’s chewy and sweet and just delicious oh this is not going to work let me take some out okay here we go getting somewhere ooh this smells so good if you have a

Nut allergy I strongly suggest that you don’t make these but I’ll enjoy some for you oh yikes maybe once I add the sugar in here it’ll go better some sugar this looks so unbelievably bad but I swear it’s only because my food processor is so small

And I’m going to just pulse this up until hopefully it like resembles sand like it’s just kind of crumbly I have to do this in batches that’s what I was looking for see just like crumbly little pieces like that in this last batch of blitzing up I’m going

To put a little bit of salt and some lemon zest the recipe calls for like either lemon or orange I think both would be really good in here but lemon is always just like where it’s at for me I really should get a bigger food processor because I have to put eggs in

Here and I’m worried that it’s not really going to get as smooth as I want it if I have to mix it into a bowl we’re going to do some playing around I think we’re going to try the eggs and batches this is going to be a fun experiment for

Me the recipe does suggest adding the egg whites in twos so maybe this could work so I’m going to do half of it here and we’re looking for like a nice pasty sticky consistency ooh which is what I got that’s perfect right there this I am

Making such a mess this better be worth it I think it will be it smells really good give it one last mix around just to combine everything time to roll so I’ve got a prepared baking dish lime with parchment paper I’ve got my little bowl of pinoles delicious got my batter and

I’ve got like a my little cookie scoop this is a 2 tspoon measure because this is so sticky I think I’m going to spray my little scoop here with some non-stick spray just to help ease things along scoop of the cookie mixture pop it out oh it’s so sticky roll in the pine

Nuts there’s my cookie I feel like this is a little stickier than I want it to be because I did realize that I did not have exactly enough almond paste so this is going to be an experiment I should have just have the recipe but what are

You going to do and just keep on doing that until we are full I’m going to probably put like like six on this pan for now they probably will spread a little bit couple inches apart you should be good these are going into my preheated

Oven for 15 to 17 minutes but of course check it just make sure everyone’s oven is different I like to check my stuff a little bit earlier than the suggested time because it runs a little hot sometimes but you know your oven so do your thing these ones just came out of

The oven and they are looking real good they’re kind of bigger than I thought they would be but nice and toasty the pine nuts toasted up looking delicious and they smell so good I’m going to transfer these to a wire rack look at these things they are scrumptious

Smelling I cannot wait to dig into this mine are definitely a lot flatter than hers were in her video but I’m sure that’s because my ratios were off but they came out great last part of the things powdered sugar just like a little dusting on these things not too

Much I don’t want to get them too sweet but just a little bit and that’s it look how pretty they are if I saw these in the bakery I would 100% just like buy all of them and just eat them all in a second now I must try one this one now this

One look at the insides of that so chewy those nuts are just everywhere they are incredible I feel like I am at Mike’s Pastry I think that if they were thicker they would be even better but they are still so delicious it tastes exactly like Mike’s wow you

Have got to try these they are so good crunchy on the outside they’ve got that chewy interior M and the flavor is so good wow I’m definitely going to be making these again maybe with a larger food processor even though I didn’t have a larger food processor I found a way to

Make it work I hope you enjoy