Sablée Cookies

These cookies are made with the same dough used to make sweet crusts for pies and tarts. It is very similar to the shortbread dough on page 256—it has the same marvelous tendency to turn instantly into crumbs in the mouth—except it contains an egg and an egg yolk. You can also use this dough to make checkerboard cookies, marbled cookies, spiral-patterned cookies, and cookies made with a