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Sablé Cookies (How to Make Sablé)
Sablé is one of the most popular types of shortbread. Here is a reliable method—you can fill them with jam or chocolate.
Sablé is one of the most beloved types of biscuits.
Ingredients
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- 1 cup cornstarch (cornflour)
- Pinch of salt
- 200 g butter
- 1 cup oil
- Powdered sugar, about 1 cup (or 175 g)
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon (≈8 g) vanilla
- 2 eggs
- Lemon zest
- 4 cups (or slightly more) flour
- Filling
- Jam or chocolate
Method
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- Sift the flour with the cornstarch, baking powder, and salt.
- Place the butter at room temperature in the mixer and beat until it becomes creamy.
- Add the oil to the butter in stages, i.e., in batches; then add the egg, lemon zest, and vanilla, and beat.
- Add the flour mixture in batches and fold by hand just until the dough comes together; do not overwork it for a successful result.
- Let the dough rest for half an hour in the refrigerator before shaping it.
- Remove it and roll it thin between two sheets of plastic wrap... cut the sablés into the shapes you want and place them on a baking tray without greasing it, because sablé dough is made with butter.
- Place the tray on the lower rack in a preheated oven for about 10 minutes, monitoring according to your oven's strength.Timers: 10 min
- Brown them slightly on the upper rack until they reach the desired color, about 5 minutes.Timers: 5 min
- Remove them and let the sablés cool, then decorate or sandwich every two cookies with jam or chocolate and press them together.
- For more desserts from Rina, here is Hala Al-Sufoof
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Notes and serving ideas
- Halawet Al-Sfoof
