This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi – was a classic – Vanilla Bean Sablés (the most buttery shortbreads ever!), in Dorie’s words: “snappy around the edges, cakier in the centre” with a hint of saltiness. Sablé in French means “sandy” and the sandy texture (you can even see it pretty well […]
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Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Viennese Sablés
The Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi this week was a fairly simple whipped shortbread-y cookie that you might recognise as “the cookie from the blue tin (of Danish butter cookies)”. These tasted absolutely fantastic but I had a little trouble with the dough which is supposed to be piped out of a […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Dorie’s Cookies): Classic jammers
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is her classic jammers – a buttery shortbread base topped with a dollop of jam and surrounded by buttery streusel. Can you say buttery delight? Those of us working our way through Baking Chez Moi have already made the galette version of the cookie – it […]
French Fridays with Dorie: Pierre Herme’s Olive Sables
Having been skeptical before, then pleasantly surprised by a savoury sablé (David Lebovitz’ seaweed sablés) on another French Friday, this week’s French Fridays with Dorie recipe (Pierre Herme’s Olive Sables, p 12)was one I was looking forward to a lot. Salty olives in a sweet shortbread – has to be be good, right? To be […]
French Fridays with Dorie: Cocoa sablés
This week’s French Fridays with Dorie introduced me to cocoa sablés (pp 402-403) – basically a chocolate shortbread, studded with finely chopped dark chocolate. It’s buttery and melts in your mouth, even cut thick like Dorie suggests (she calls them “substantial”), though she does say that if you cut them thinner, you can make ice […]
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