Checkerboard Cookies

Name: Checkerboard Cookies
Yield: Makes about 80 cookies
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 2 large, eggs; 10 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks), unsalted butter, softened; 1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon, granulated sugar (2¾ ounces/78 grams); 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1 1/2 cups, unbleached all-purpose flour (7 1/2 ounces/213 grams); 10 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks), unsalted butter, softened; 1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon, granulated sugar (2¾ ounces/78 grams); 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1 1/3 cups, unbleached all-purpose flour (6 2/3 ounces/189 grams); 1/4 cup, Dutch-processed cocoa (1 ounce/28 grams)

Desserts or Baked Goods
French
Chocolate
Make Ahead
Cookies
Holiday

Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2008

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 80 cookies

TIME 2½ hours, plus 1½ hours chilling and 20 minutes resting

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