Crunchy butter cookies from Britany

The “galettes sablées bretonnes” are typical french butter cookies made from butter, flour, sugar and eggs. The traditional shape is round and the tops of the cookies are usually brushed with the egg yolk, giving them a shiny and golden appearance. “Sablée” means sand in French, and refers to the sandy like texture of the biscuits. This is really a very easy to make recipe, and the result tastes very good.

Yield: 30 biscuits

Ingredients:

• 200g flour
• 130g sugar
• 1,5 teaspoons of vanilla sugar
• a pinch of salt
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 125g of salted butter (room T)
• 1 egg
• 1 egg yolk + 5cl of water

Step by step:

• Mix flour with sugar, vanilla sugar and baking powder.

• Add butter and mix well together with your hands until you get a sandy-like texture.

• Add egg to the butter, sugar and flour mixture.

• Mix everything well together until it forms nice ball. Wrap the dough in the plastic wrap and place in refrigerator for 1 hour to cool down.

• Pre-heat oven to 200C.
• Take on part of the dough from refrigirator and place on the lightly floured work surface.
• Roll out the dough until it is 3-5mm thick.

• With the help of a round (5cm diameter) cookie cutter, cut out the cookies and place them on the prepared cooking pan.  Brush them with the egg yolk and water mixture.

• Bake cookies for around 10-15min or until they are light brown.
• Let them cool down and serve with an afternoon cup of tea or coffee.

Enjoy!