Almond Sable Cookies ~ 杏仁奶油曲奇饼

 

These Almond Sable Cookies are a must try during this holiday season, it's a Christmas Butter Time Cookie.  I have posted a simpler recipe before, French Butter Cookies, but this recipe that I am sharing with you today has almond meal and I added in Cointreau to give some oomph to the flavour.

Almond Sable Cookies  ~   杏仁奶油曲奇饼 (adapted from 'here')

Ingredients

• 160 gm butter
• 80 gm icing sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• 2 tsp Cointreau
• 200 gm plain flour
• 50 gm almond meal
• 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 egg yolk for egg wash  

Method

1. Cream the butter and sugar till well incorporated.  
2. Add in the egg yolks, one at a time.
3. Sift in the plain flour, baking powder and salt.  Mix well with a spatula.
4. Mix in the almond meal, followed by the Cointreau.
5. Dough is sticky.  Roll out the dough to about 1/4 inch thick, in between two plastic sheets and place in the freezer to harden, about 30 mins.
6. Cut out the dough with a cookie cutter (4.5 cm dia.)  Place the cookies on a parchment lined baking tray and put the whole tray into the freezer for about 10 mins.
7. Lightly brush the cookies with egg wash, twice.  Then with the back of a fork, draw a criss-cross pattern on each cookie.
8. Bake in a preheated oven @ 180 deg.C  for 15 mins. till golden brown.  Let cookies cool on a wire rack before storing in an airtight cookie jar.
9. Yield :  36 cookies