Can a Pistachio Muffin Recipe Make You Cry with Joy?

Brace yourself. I am about to tell you an epic tale of struggle and redemption. Four days ago, my Dad ran to the grocery store to get Mom the staples that we always run out of milk, cheese, and eggs. And do you know what he had the nerve to do? He bought himself two pistachio muffins to have for his breakfasts. When we saw them on the counter, we were drawn to them like flies to a light. But he told us not to touch them. The drama here is real. For two days, we had to sit and look at those delicious muffins, and we couldn’t eat them. Well, you can imagine the struggle. It was time to get busy finding a pistachio muffin recipe that we could make for ourselves for redemption.

Preparing Ingredients for our Pistachio Muffin Recipe:

Unfortunately, pistachios are not something that we happen to just have handy in the house. Although Dad’s muffins were made with walnuts, we really liked the idea of using the real thing for our muffins.

After convincing Mom that we needed, (not wanted, just to clarify) these muffins, we secured the pistachio pudding and nuts for our next baking adventure. Everything else was already on hand.

How Green?

When I opened the pudding mix, I gasped at the color. My Dad walked by and said it looked toxic. Well, we can all say that we were ignoring his comments about now as we tried not to be mad at him.

The recipe we were working from said you could add more green food coloring, but after seeing how scary the color already was, we decided not to add any more weird colored chemicals into the mix.

Shelling the Pistachios:

I will say that walnuts would have been a lot easier. Our fingers were really starting to hurt, but we did say at the beginning of this post that the struggle was real.

Since these were going into the muffin mix, we ended up putting them into a bag and breaking them down into smaller bits. It was a good way of getting out our pistachio muffin frustrations of the last couple of days.

Redemption:

The texture of this batter was quite interesting. It was pretty thick, but we were pretty sure that was due to the pudding mixture.

At least it tasted fantastic!

We added a bit of sugar to the top, as this is always our favorite part of a muffin because really, these are just little cakes and we love the crunchy top. We add A LOT to our blueberry muffins for this reason.

And now for the happy ending to our dramatic story of struggle. This pistachio muffin recipe is fantastic! Although we stuffed two in our mouths within minutes, we did manage to share with Dad. We don’t want anyone to struggle the way we did for those two long days.