Chocolate Diamants

This simple, classic butter cookie is an elegant addition to tea or after-dinner coffee. Diamant refers to the way the sugar on the cookies’ rims glints in the light. Because the dough freezes well, you can double the recipe and freeze half. With the dough logs wrapped in parchment paper and then sealed in plastic wrap, they will keep for up to 3 months in the freezer. So whenever you’d like to serve cookies, defrost a log for 30 minutes at room temperature, and then slice and bake a