Sable cookies are a French delicacy (known as Punitions), masterfully produced by the best French bakeries. Something delicate and buttery and amazing in its very simplicity. Not too crispy not too crumbly not at all bendy. ( Believe me, I sooo do.) But there’s something just as irresistible in the plain-jane category: a perfect, tender butter cookie. Obviously, dessert would be the French Lemon Sable Cookies, but Raspberry Rose Profiteroles or Chocolate Espresso Mousse are other Parisian patisserie delights to offer your guests variety.I love ooey-gooey-rich-and-chewy cookies as much as the next girl. If you want meatless French meal, try a fun twist on a French classic like Ratatouille Pasta. A bed of pasta or rice, plus some Broiled Broccolini are great side dishes for either meal. You can make traditional French dinner of Coq au Vin, or a slightly more unconventional dish like Grand-Mere’s Friday Night Chicken.

Start with an appetizer of miniature brie en croute with my Baked Brie Bites. I took a peek through my book-inspired recipes, and I have more French-inspired recipes on here than I thought. Great! Here’s what to serve as the rest of the meal. Say you’re having a French-themed dinner party, and you want to serve Lemon Sable Cookies. What’s a French-themed menu to serve with Lemon Sable Cookies? These cookies are super thin, so you wanna go low and slow with these batches.

Bake cookies at a lower-than-usual temperature – just 325F.

Use a mini offset spatula to transfer to cookies from your work surface to the prepared cookie sheets in order to maintain their shape.I free-wheeled it and some of my cookies were a little too thin and turned out a little dark. If you have one of those nifty rolling pins with the adjustable measuring rings (I don’t), this is a good time to break it out.There’s only a 1-2 minute difference between a well-baked sable and a burnt sable, and if some of the cookies on your baking sheet are thinner than the others, you might accidentally burn half your batch. Make sure you roll the dough out to the same thickness all around.Cold dough is super important! Since you need to roll the cookie dough really thin, the colder the dough, the better.Here are some tips I followed for making the perfect Sable Cookies: There’s a reason most French home bakers make these - they’re really easy and require relatively few ingredients. **mind blown**Īnytime I don’t have to haul out the stand mixer - or wash a bajillion mixing bowls - is good.įor all you bakers out there thinking that making fancy French cookies sounds a little tricky, fear not: if you can make sugar cookies, you can make Lemon Sable Cookies. And you guys may remember from a long time ago that Mint Chocolate Cake can also be made in a food processor. First the Cherry Chocolate Chip Scones, now these cookies. I feel like I’m a roll with this kitchen appliance. You wanna know something cool about Lemon Sable Cookie dough? I made it in the food processor. The easy hack to making Lemon Sable Cookie dough. They’re extra crispy and crunchy when you bite into them, then all that butter and sugar just dissolves on your tongue a moment later. Though I think that’s only because I had a big lunch before baking.īasically, you’re going to love them. Lemon Sable Cookies are perfectly snack-sized so you can eat ten of them at once, like I did. I’m not sure why since they’re really quite delicious, especially when you want a thin, crispy cookie with a good snap! While sables are a classic cookie for the French home baker, they aren’t very popular in American bakeries or kitchens. I’m not here to ostracize any cookies, but I have to say - while I do love me some traditional English shortbread, I think I’ve fallen in love with sables. Runyan includes a Sable recipe in A Bakery in Paris, so I used that as my base for French Lemon Sable Cookies. The scene reminded me so much of the one in Ratatouillewhen the French restaurant critic has that flashback, and I knew I had to make Sable Cookies as my book-inspired recipe for this novel.Īuthor Aimie K. One bite and she’s transported back to her childhood, when she tasted the same cookie recipe at Micheline’s grandmother’s bakery decades before. There’s a moment in the book when Micheline’s elderly neighbor tastes one of her sable cookies.