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Butter cookies – Sablés for Valentine’s Day

February 8, 2013

Butter Cookie Sablés for your Valentine
Butter Cookie Sablés for your Valentine

Hi, today I made vanilla sablés for Valentine’s Day. These are in heart shape. Do you remember my coffee sablé video recipe? Today’s cookies are simpler and quicker to make.

Sablés are originated from Caen, Normandy. They are also called as butter cookies and shortbread biscuits in English.

Let’s get cooking!

Valentine Sablés
Valentine Sablés

Yield 50 cookies
Prep time: 20 min
Resting time: 1 hour
Cooking time: 15 min

Ingredients

    • 2 cups all-purpose flour (250g)
    • 1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon caster sugar (128g)
    • Pinch salt
    • 1 1/10 stick unsalted butter, cold, diced (125g)
    • 1 egg
    • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

For cookie icing,

    • 1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar
    • 1 tablespoon whipping cream (or milk/water)
    • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
    • food colors of your choice

Directions

Sabler In a mixing bowl, sift flour. Add in sugar and salt. Whisk until combined. Add in cold and diced butter. Then cut it with a pastry blender until the mixture looks sands. (this process is called sabler) Alternatively, you can use your fingers or pulse in a food processor.

Make the dough In a small bowl add an egg and vanilla extract. Beat until combined. Add egg mixture into the butter-flour mixture and mix until a dough forms. (again pulse if you use a food processor).

Reserve Make a disk and safely cover with plastic wrap. Reserve in the refrigerator for one hour. This is to stabilize the butter content in the dough.

Prepare baking Preheat the oven to 320 degrees F (160 C).

Roll out Roll 1/8 inch (3mm) thick with a rolling pin. And cut with cookie cutters. Arrange them directly on the cookie sheet. Sablés don’t really spread, so 1/2 inch (1.2cm) space between cookies is enough.

Bake for 10-13 minutes, or until light golden brown and crisp. Out of oven immediately transfer cookies to a wire wrack and let cool. If cookies are cooled on the cookie sheet, they will turn out too dry.

Make the cookie icing In a bowl, add in all ingredients and mix well until blended. Add more cream (or milk/water) until the desired thickness. If you want, stir in food color of your choice.

Decorate Glaze icing on cookies. Use sprinkles on top of icing if desired.

In a large mixing bowl, sift flour.
In a large mixing bowl, sift flour.
Add in sugar and salt.
Add in sugar and salt.
Whisk to combine.
Whisk to combine.
Add in butter and with a pastry blender cut the butter until the mixture seems like sands.
Add in butter and with a pastry blender cut the butter until the mixture seems like sands.
Or you can use fingers.
Or you can use fingers.
Butter should look like bread crumbs.
Butter should look like bread crumbs.
Or pulse in a food processor.
Or pulse in a food processor.
Look, now it looks like sands.
Look, now it looks like sands.
Break an egg and add in vanilla.
Break an egg and add in vanilla.
Beat to combine.
Beat to combine.
Add the egg mixture into flour-butter mixture.
Add the egg mixture into flour-butter mixture.
Mix or pulse until a dough forms.
Mix or pulse until a dough forms.
Make a disk.
Make a disk.
Cover with plastic wrap and reserve in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Cover with plastic wrap and reserve in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Out of fridge, roll out 1/8 inch thick.
Out of fridge, roll out 1/8 inch thick.
With cookies cutters of your choice.
With cookies cutters of your choice..
Cut the dough.
Cut the dough.
Ready to be baked.
Ready to be baked.
Bake at 320 degrees F (160 C) for 12-15 minutes.
Bake at 320 degrees F (160 C) for 10-13 minutes.
Cookies should be light golden brown.
Cookies should be light golden brown.

Now for icing,

For icing, mix all ingredients until blended.
For icing, mix all ingredients until silky.
Stir in food color of your choice.
Stir in food color of your choice.
I love green.
I love kelly green.
Be creative when glazing.
Be creative when glazing.
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Voila!

And

here you go –

Butter Cookie Sablés for your Valentine
Butter Cookie Sablés for your Valentine

L-O-V-E by Nat King Cole

L is for the way you look at me
O is for the only one I see
V is very, very extraordinary
E is even more than anyone that you adore.

Love is the only thing I can give to you –

^.^

Valentine butter cookie stop motion video I uploaded on VINE app. Find Eugenie Kitchen there! <3
Valentine butter cookie stop motion video I uploaded on VINE app. Find Eugenie Kitchen there! <3

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Comments

  1. Greg Harris says

    February 8, 2013 at 8:38 am

    Those look great Eugenie. I’ll try them as soon as I can. Thanks for your great recipes and descriptions, You’re a peach!
    greg

    Reply
    • EugenieKitchen says

      February 8, 2013 at 9:03 pm

      Thanks Greg. Happy to hear that I am helpful :-) Happy baking!

      Reply
  2. anniegurumi says

    February 8, 2013 at 4:09 pm

    These are so whimsical and cute! I love it! I wish I could have some now, I miss cookies!

    Reply
    • EugenieKitchen says

      February 8, 2013 at 9:02 pm

      Thanks Annie! I will make a few more for Valentine’s day :)

      Reply

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