Sablés aux noisettes (hazelnut sablés)
These delicious, buttery cookies ("sablés") are incredibly crispy and feature my favourite nut (hazelnut). You may use store-bought hazelnut meal, but it can be hard to find, and it loses taste as it stays on the shelf. I recommend you buy raw hazelnuts that you can roast youself and blend into a find powder using a blender. It takes a lot longer, but it's worth it!
Recipe inspired from La Cuisine de Bernard.
Ingredients
- 110g wheat flour
- 75g white sugar
- 150 roasted hazelnut meal
- 145g margarine
- icing sugar to coat the sables
Instructions
- Preheat oven at 170°C, fan on.
- Mix flour, sugar and hazelnut meal together in a bowl.
- Cut margarine into pieces, and crumble it with the other ingredients using your finger to form a sandy texture.
- Bring everything together in a ball. If it is too warm and soft, put it in the fridge for ~15 min.
- Put icing sugar into a small bowl, and take small balls from the dough, roll them in icing sugar, and flatten themwith the palm of your hand on a piece of baking paper.
- Bake for ~15 min, and take them out of the oven.
Important: Let them cool down before handling them, or they will break!