Butter cookies - ghraybeh recipe

White-colored butter cookies that are decorated with pistachios. They melt in the mouth!

Ingredients (40 pieces)

4 cups flour
2 cups powdered sugar
2 cups butter, at room temperature
40 pistachios

Steps 

1. Mix the powdered sugar and butter with an electric blender until it turns into a whitish paste. Move the mixture to a bowl.
 
2. Add in the flour and mix with your hands until you get a smooth dough. Knead slightly.
Put the dough in the refrigerator for 1 hr.
 
3. Remove dough from refrigerator and divide it into walnut-sized balls. Roll each ball into a finger-like shape and close the ends together forming a ring.
 
4. Decorate each cookie with a pistachio.
 
5. Arrange the cookies on a slightly greased baking tray leaving at least 1 cm between each cookie.
 
6. Bake in the oven at a low temperature for 20 min until they become slightly blushed.
 
7. Let the cookies cool before serving.