Double Chocolate Sable Cookies (France)

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The hardest part of this recipe is grating the chocolate. After that it's so easy. The cookies are HEAVEN! They taste like my own idea of the perfect brownie. They're beautiful, shiny and rich looking and the SMELL! Just fantastic aroma! This is the chocolate some cookies wish they could be. The sandy texture is hard to imagine until you actually eat one but once you eat one you know why they're called sables. YUM YUM YUM

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The flavor of this cookie is excellent. The aroma is what true chocolate lovers are looking for. BUT, I don't think all the effort for such a small amount of cookies is worth it. Grating the chocolate was extremely difficult, I wound up grating my knuckle! The microplane worked much better. Mine was also a very crumbly texture but I kept gently kneading it together until it held up. Rolling it was a little tricky but the wax paper and ruler did work to make smooth evenly round rolls. The texture is a little sandy for my tastes.
I will get my chocolate fix elsewhere, I would not make them again.

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I also had trouble working with the dough - I watched the video, used my ruler, and still had crumbly dough. I was glad I read the tip about using muffin tins, because I pushed my dough into the bottoms and after baking, let them cool a while. I got enough cookies for my event, but not as many as stated. They are extremely chocolately, which I did like but I won't make again.

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...than this is a nice, rich chocolate cookie. Reviewers who rated this recipe poorly may have undermixed the dough. I used my Kitchen Aid to mix, and the dough was not hard to work with at all.

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I was incredibly disappointed yesterday when I tried to make these cookies! Perhaps in an effort not to overmix the dough I undermixed it instead??? The dough wasn't really dough- it was a sandy mess. I could not get it to come together no matter what I tried. There really needed to be some kind of liquid. The only reason I didn't give this one star is because I pressed the dough into a pie plate and baked it off that way. I then cut them into wedges- they were tasty, but not what I had imagined. I think I'm a relatively good baker, so these cookies really frustrated me. Disappointing!!

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i wasted my ingredients. it was like baking a box of sand. and even after baking it, thinking that the butter and chocolate melting would help it hold together, It didn't. So if it is possible to add at least a little bit of liquid to his (other than the egg, let the user know. Or if it just isn't working, if it could be 'CONVERTED' into another type of cookie. i'm trying to eat it with a spoon. Or perhaps mixing it in with vanilla chocolate and serving it like that? I just don't like throwing stuff away.

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Not a bad recipe, the dough was a little difficult to work with no matter how cold it was. Turned out a little grainy with the sugar. I think I would try a different cookie recipe next time.

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fan tastic must have for x-mas

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I made these yesterday, and my they are good! Very rich and they have a crumbly shortbread-like texture. I made them fairly small (about 2 inches per slice before cooking, but they do spread some so make sure not to put them close together on the cookie sheet. Also, I found the dough easier to work with if I put the logs in the freezer for around an hour before slicing. The batch makes about 4 dozen. I made a simple glaze for the top and decorated with crushed candy cane, toasted coconut or toasted almond slivers. Really pretty!

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I am making this for my child's cookie sale (by the pound. To make it more festive, I am frosting them lightly w/ white frosting and adding a little bit of crushed peppermint.