Chocolate Chip Pistachio Cookies Recipe

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease cookie sheets.

Sift together the flour baking powder and salt set aside. In a medium bowl cream together the butter and sugar. Add the eggs milk and vanilla stirring after each addition. Add the dry ingredients and mix until a stiff dough forms. Separate 1/4 of the dough form the rest and set aside in a small bowl. Add the nuts to the dough in the small bowl. Add the pudding mix and 3/4 cup of chocolate chips to the large portion of dough; mix until blended.

Roll the pudding flavored dough into walnut sized balls and place them 1 1/2 inches apart on the prepared cookie sheets. Flatten the balls using your hand or the bottom of a glass dipped in sugar. Roll the dough from the small bowl into marble sized balls place 1 ball on top of each of the flattened cookies. Then on top of each cookie place 1 of the white chocolate chips.

Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven or until cookies are set. Remove from the baking sheet to cool on wire racks. When cool dust with confectioners' sugar if desired.