French Butter Cookies
Also known as Sables, these butter cookies are made with European style butter and cooked egg yolk.
Servings 24 cookies
Cost 5
Ingredients
- 1 large hard boiled egg yolk
- 10 tablespoons salted European style butter, softe ed
- ⅓ cup plus 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
- 1 pinch salt or use ¼ if butter is unsalted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour (220 grams)
- 1 large egg white, lightly beaten and mixed with 1 teaspoon of water
- Crystal sugar or coarse sugar for garnish (optional)
Instructions
- Separate the cooked egg yolk from the egg white and mash it up. Save the white for something else.
- Beat together butter, sugar, and vanilla with an electric mixer until well blended. Stir in mashed egg yolk and salt. Add flour and stir to make a soft dough.
- Halve dough and roll out 1 half between 2 sheets of wax paper or parchment to about ¼ to ⅓ of an inch thick. Chill the rolled out slabs of dough until ready to bake or for at least one hour.
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Cut out as many 2-inch rounds as possible with a cookie cutter and arrange about 2 inches apart on baking sheet. Roll out scraps and cut remaining dough in same manner.
- Beat egg white until frothy, then brush tops of rounds lightly with egg white. If you have some, you can sprinkle the tops with crystal sugar.
- Bake cookies in middle of oven until tops are pale golden, 15 to 20 minutes. Let cool on sheets on racks 2 minutes, then transfer to racks to cool completely.
