The Art of French Pastry

the United States, by the ton all year round. And one of our after-school tasks was putting 25 pounds of spritz coo ...

are called bredele de Noël —little Christmas breads— and we know that the tradition goes back at least to t ...

Zimtsterne. Hundreds of years ago the dough for cookies like these was pressed into carved wooden molds, some ...

December. With over 300 vendors around the famous Strasbourg Cathedral, today this is one of the ten most v ...

at this time of year. Some of the recipes in this chapter are French classics: Almond Tuiles are deceptively ...

recipes, like Fours de Lin, are cookies that I learned to make during my apprenticeship. These irresistible ...

around the world. They can be technically challenging at first, but I hope that with the help of my recipe yo ...

to be helping my entire family make huge amounts of cookies every weekend for the month before Christmas, especi ...

listening to the Beatles. Of course, now I continue the ritual of getting the family together to make cookie ...

to family, neighbors, and friends. There is something about showing up at a neighbor’s house with a tin of ...

CHRISTMAS SABLÉS / SABLÉS DE NOËL ...

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YIELD | ABOUT 5½ DOZEN 2-INCH COOKIES Sablés de Noël, one of the traditional cookies we call bredele de Noël, ...

holidays. These simple, luscious cookies, made from a rich buttery dough flavored with vanilla, ground ...

with a small clip base. On Christmas Eve we would light the candles, taking great care not to set the ...

and sisters were children bredele de Noël, a mandarin orange, and a piece of chocolate were what they got as ...

following equipment and allow all of the ingredients to come to room temperature: Digital scale, set to metric weight ...

stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment 1 rubber spatula 1 bowl scraper Plastic wrap 1 sheet pan lined w ...

1 pastry brush NOTE: The butter should be soft. Read this recipe through twice from start to finish. UNDERS ...

for these cookies because it gives the dough more structure than cake flour. If you use bread flour, which c ...