Vanilla Sablés

Preparation info
  • About

    36

    cookies
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
How to Bake

By Nick Malgieri

Published 1995

  • About

These cookies may be varied infinitely with additions of nuts and/or dried and candied fruits to the dough.

Sablé means “sandy” in French, referring to the crumbly texture of the cookies.

Ingredients

  • 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
  • ¼ cup sugar

Method

  1. In a mixer bowl, beat the butter with the sugar and salt until the mixture is very light, about 5 minutes on medium speed. Beat in the yolk, then the vanilla extract. Remove from the mixer. Sift the flour over and stir in.
  2. Shape the dough into an 8-inch-long cylinder in a sheet of parchment paper. Chill until firm.
  3. Set racks at the middle and upper th