How much should a cookie recipe cost to make?
 

OMG. I decided to make a rolled butter cookie that needed raw pistachios.

Impossible to find anything other then shell on. Spent almost $20 on the blasted things. Then spent 3 hours shelling them.

Never again.

a) I've never been in any grocery that didn't have a large selection of bagged nuts.

b) If the store didn't have bagged and shelled raw pecans, I would switch the nuts to something the store did have.

c) If the store had no bagged raw nuts that were acceptable, I'd change recipes.

Even with a power sheller and paper-thin pecans, it's a tedious and labor-intensive process (which is why they're so expensive).

How'd the cookies taste? :)

Autocorrect hit. It was raw pistachios. Now corrected. The dough is still chilling in the fridge.

Is there an Indian grocery near you?

IME you can get pistachios much cheaper in an Indian grocery than in a conventional American market.

Now baked. Perfectly normal short bread, and the King's ransom of pistachios brings nothing to the party. Live and learn.

You can probably also get them cheaper in mediterranean/middle eastern markets. I think even trader joes may have bags of pistachio pieces at a reasonable price.

Only half as bad, my wife is trying a cookie recipe that calls for 1/4 tsp of cardamom, we had to buy a 3 oz jar for just under $10. I hope we find other uses for it because we'll have a lot left.

It's good in pumpkin pies and coffee.

Indian food!

Cardamom is amazing in:

Coffee/chai tea
Pastries
Cookies/cake/pies
Curry
Fried rice/biryani
Stir fries

Cardamom is awesome in coffee cakes. Sometimes I make a peach coffee cake with it, great for holiday breakfasts!

You mentioned "raw" I think. While I buy nuts in their raw state, I never bake with them raw. A light toasting greatly improves the flavor, especially if you adding them to something subtle, like shortbread.

Seemed odd to me as well. The dough was rolled in them, so they were on the outside and I guess toasted while the cookies were basting. It was the raw that were hard to find.

I made cookies the other day with plenty of cream cheese peppermint frosting left over. Purchased peppermint extract for the cookies with plenty left.

How much should a cookie recipe cost to make?
 

Of course it depends on how many cookies are made, As a very dedicated cookie monster once said: If you bake them for more than a buck apiece, you might have to limit the intake to 8-10 at a time
;)

Trader Joe's has 12 oz bags for like 3.99

Cardamon is also amazing in rice puddings. Never been able to figure out how to flavour basmati rice with them. Drinking cardamon infused tea too.

For shelled pistachios?? Wow, that's a great price as they are expensive.
I think I would have subbed another type of nut long before I shelled them. I love pistachios to shell and eat one by one but not to do all that for a recipe.
You know what else costs as much as gold---pine nuts!!! I love them but I could buy a steak for the price of a half cup of pine nuts.

can get expensive fast using premium ingredients such as valrhona chocolate

recipes anyone? i bought valrhona fèves and have no idea how to use them :D

And were they raw? That was the problem for me, couldn't find them anywhere.

There's a reason for that. Embargo of products from the pistachio's homeland and where it is most widely cultivated. The California Avocado growers would love a similar ban.

Another reason. Pest. The stone pine has been affected by an insect imported from the western U.S. that has severely diminished its ability to produce seed (production of seeds is a very energy-intensive activity for plants). The other species of pines that are sources of harvested seeds for human consumption just aren't the same.