Shortbread Dough

This dough is so sweet and crumbly you can shape it into a cylinder, slice the cylinder into rounds, and bake the rounds as shortbread butter cookies. (The French call these sablées.) When you use this pastry to line a tart, you’ve lined the tart with a sweet, buttery, and fragile cookie dough. Pâte sablée is made in the same way as sweetened pie dough (pâté brisée sucrée), except that more butter and sugar are used.