Lemon Sables

Name: Lemon Sables
Yield: Makes about 40 cookies
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 large, egg; 10 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks), unsalted butter, softened; 1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon, granulated sugar (2 3/4 ounces/78 grams); 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 4 teaspoons, grated lemon zest; 1 1/2 cups, unbleached all-purpose flour (7 1/2 ounces/213 grams); , Confectioners' sugar

Desserts or Baked Goods
French
Make Ahead
Cookies

Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2008, America's Test Kitchen TV

These French butter cookies offer sophistication and style from simple pantry ingredients. That is, if you can capture their elusive sandy texture.

SERVES Makes about 40 cookies

TIME 1½ hours, plus 1 hour chilling

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