FRENCH SABLES NORMANDS
From noir 15 years ago
- 18 minutes to make
- Serves 40
A lovely cookie to serve with Coffee or give as a gift. The name 'Sablé' is French for "sand", which refers to the sandy texture of this delicate and crumbly shortbread-like cookie. Enjoy! :)
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour shopping list
- 8 ounces cold butter shopping list
- 3 egg yolks shopping list
- 1 teaspoon vanilla shopping list
- 1/8 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 1 teaspoon baking powder shopping list
- 1 1/4 cups sugar shopping list
- 1/2 cup angel flake coconut or ground nuts **See Below** shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Cut butter into small pieces. In a food processor, mix butter and flour to a crumble.
- Add egg yolks, vanilla, salt, baking powder and sugar.
- Mix until ingredients are just blended.
- Shape dough into a cylinder 1 1/2 inch diameter.
- Roll in coconut or nuts**
- Chill until dough is firm.
- Slice into 1/4 inch thick slices and bake for about 10-18 minutes or until golden brown.
- Place 1" apart on ungreased cookie sheets before baking and score the tops in a criss-cross pattern with a fork.
- **(if making "plain" Brush the tops with egg yolk before baking)
- ***While Sablés are delicious plain, this versatile dough it can be flavored with ground nuts or zests. Sablés can even be sandwiched together with jam or preserves, ganache, or lemon curd.***
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Mmmm, the butter and coconut aroma of these should be amazing!
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