Chocolate Sable Cookies
Mon Petit Four recipe - French (Baking/Home)
- Prep time
- 14 min
- Cook time
- 31 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 c all-purpose flour
- 1/3 c natural unsweetened cocoa powder, I use Trader Joe’s cocoa
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 c unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2/3 c sugar
- 1/4 tsp fine sea salt
- 3/4 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 3 1/2 oz dark chocolate, 70%, I use Trader Joe's 70% Pound Plus Bar, grated
- chopped pistachios for garnishing, optional
- chopped almonds for garnishing, optional
- ganache for garnishing, optional
- fleur de sel for garnishing, optional
Instructions
- 1
Sift the flour, cocoa, and baking soda together. Grate the dark chocolate with a cheese grater or food processor, then pour the chocolate crumbs into the bowl of dry ingredients. Set aside.
- 2
In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the sugar, butter, vanilla, and fine sea salt together for a few minutes on medium low speed. Add in the egg and mix until combined.
- 3
Pour in the dry ingredients and mix just until combined and a dough has been created. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and slightly flatten out into a disc shape. Freeze for 30 minutes.
- 4
Lightly flour your work surface and the dough before rolling it out 1/4 inch thick. Use a 2 inch biscuit cutter to cut out circles from the dough. Gently press desired nuts into the tips of the dough circles. Place the circles on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet, then place the sheet in the freezer for 15 minutes.
- 5
Bake the chilled cookies for 8 to 10 minutes at 350°F, or until they've set and cracks begin to form on the surface of the cookies. Remove the cookies from the oven and let them continue to rest on the baking sheet for another few minutes.
- 6
Then transfer the cookies to a wire cooling rack to cool completely. If using ganache, apply to tips of cookies once they are completely cool.