Last Updated: April 24th 2026.
Pistachio lovers unite!
This cookie is for you. A variation on the traditional macaron. This one not only has almonds in the dough, but pistachios as well. It’s a single macaron, not two macarons with filling in between. The cookie is gluten and wheat free, so suited for lots of people. Pistachio macarons are for the true Pistachio lover.
Pistachios aren’t safe in our house, if we have them there are 2 men that will eat them all. So I have to specifically say that they’re for a recipe, and then they’ll leave them alone. The recipe comes from the cookbook “500 koekjes” from Philippa Vanstone. So many great cookie recipes in this one.
Another pistachio cookie, which we loved is the Salted Pistachio Pudding Cookie. Still searching for another cookie recipe, try out these Chocolate Easter Nests. When looking for a healthy, but simple breakfast with nuts in it: Breakfast Mug Cake. If you want to make more than just cookies for Christmas, try a Kerststol.
The cookie is delicious. I had to make some changes to the recipe. It said 175°C, my oven doesn’t have that grade, so I chose 180°C. I didn’t have rice paper, so I used baking paper. You had to pipe the macarons, but the dough is too thick to pipe. So I just scooped them. The recipe said 8 to 10 minutes in the oven, but 16 minutes was needed.
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Pistachio Macarons
Allergies: nuts, egg.
Ingredients
58 grams almond flour
58 grams finely ground pistachios
250 grams fine sugar
1 tablespoon finely ground rice
2 egg whites
16 pistachios peeled
Instructions
Mix almond flour, ground pistachios, fine sugar, ground rice and egg whites.
Scoop heeps of it on baking paper, making them about 1 centimeter in diameter. Place one pistachio in the middle of each cookie. Bake in a preheated 180°C/335°F oven for 16 minutes. Let cool down on the baking paper.
Notes:
- Recipe source “500 koekjes” from Philippa Vanstone.
- Enough for roughly 16 cookies.
- Use baking paper, not a reusable baking sheet. The latter won’t work with these cookies.
- For the ground rice, I used basmati rice.
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