Sable Breton

Bake the cookies for 12 to 15 minutes until they re a deep golden color.

Sable breton. Sablé breton lemon shortbread these thin flat and perfectly formed sable breton cookies are simple to make and very hard to resist. The region is also famous for two great local products. 2 hours 45.

In french sablé means sandy and breton refers to the north west region of brittany known for its delicious high quality salted butter. 160 g 5 oz salted butter softened. The breton salted butter sablé also known in french as the galette bretonne.

Use a fork to make a cross hatch pattern on the cookies drag the fork down vertically on the cookie then drag the fork across horizontally. As their name indicates these little butter cookies are the most delicious flaky crumbly melt in your mouth treats. So they literally mean sandy cookies from brittany.

It is a crisp sandy cookie made with the simplest of ingredients. Makes one 9 inch tart crust. While quite delicious as a cookie pastry chefs like to use the dough as shortbread crust for tarts and pastries.

Brush the tops of the cookies with the beaten egg yolk. Brittany is a charming region in the north of france it is very close to the uk with which it shares some traditions and cultural aspects and also the weather i would say. If there s one cookie that defined my childhood it is undoubtedly this one.

200 g 7 oz plain ap flour. Flour sugar eggs and a lot of butter enriched with sea salt flakes. Using hemisphere molds and proper technique you can bake perfect dome shaped tartlets.