Sablé Cookies
also called sablés · sables · French butter cookies
- Bakery
- serves 30
- recipe says 3 hours
- Cookies
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The table
| Heat the oven to 350°F (175°C) and line two baking sheets with parchment | |||||
| 1 cup(226 g; softened)unsalted butter | cream | beat in | stir | roll into a log and chill for 2 hours | egg wash, roll edges in sugar, slice 1/2 in, bake 350°F (175°C) 18 min |
| 2/3 cup(80 g)powdered sugar | |||||
| 1(18 g)egg yolk | |||||
| 1 tsp(5 mL)vanilla extract | |||||
| 2 cups(250 g)all-purpose flour | whisk | ||||
| 1/2 tsp(3 g)fine sea salt | |||||
| 1(18 g)beaten egg yolk | |||||
| 1/4 cup(50 g)turbinado sugar | |||||
What to lay out
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Pans and tools
Before anything else
2cream
3beat in
goes in with what step 2 made
4whisk
7egg wash, roll edges in sugar, slice 1/2 in, bake 350°F (175°C) 18 min
goes in with what step 6 made
Cooking it
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The clock
- Start to finish
- at least 2 hr 18 min4 of 6 steps give no time
- Needs you
- none given
- If you get it wrong
- Narrow — eighteen minutes takes them to the pale gold a sablé wants, and the butter browns fast after that
cream
not timedfrom the start
whisk
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beat in
not timedfrom the start
stir
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roll into a log and chill for 2 hours
2 hrwalk away(we think)from the start
egg wash, roll edges in sugar, slice 1/2 in, bake 350°F (175°C) 18 min
18 minwalk away(we think)2 hr in
- you can walk away
- never timed
- we think
You'll need baking sheets · oven
See how it is written
>> title: Sablé Cookies
>> category: Cookies
>> tags: butter, french, slice and bake, teatime, oven
>> counters: Bakery
>> aka: sablés, sables, French butter cookies
>> servings: 30
>> time: 3 hours
>> slack: narrow — eighteen minutes takes them to the pale gold a sablé wants, and the butter browns fast after that
Heat the #oven{} to 350°F (175°C) and line two #baking sheets{} with parchment.
Cream @unsalted butter{1%cup}(226 g; softened) with @powdered sugar{2/3%cup}(80 g).
>> step: beat in
Beat @egg yolk{1}(18 g) and @vanilla extract{1%tsp}(5 mL) into @&(~1)creamed butter{}.
Whisk @all-purpose flour{2%cup}(250 g) and @fine sea salt{1/2%tsp}(3 g).
Stir @&(~1)dry ingredients{} into @&(~2)batter{}.
Roll @&(~1)dough{} into a log and chill for ~{2%hours}.
>> step: egg wash, roll edges in sugar, slice 1/2 in, bake 350°F (175°C) 18 min
Brush @&(~1)log{} with @beaten egg yolk{1}(18 g), roll the edges in @turbinado sugar{1/4%cup}(50 g), slice 1/2 in thick, and bake at 350°F for ~{18%min}.