Lemon Sables

Name: Lemon Sables
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.

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SERVES Makes about 40 cookies

TIME 1½ hours, plus 1 hour chilling

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