Let’s just get it out in the open…I stink at slice and bakes! This sable dough was easy to whip together…it’s the rolling and cutting that gave me a headache. Mine did not keep their a nice round shape…due to the warm weather, the dough was soft enough before refrigeration to develop a flat side after being rolled into logs. And then those tiny bits of semi-sweet chocolate interfered with a clean cut. The top photo shows a prettier result after taking the leftover dough and rolling it into balls. Bill was delighted with the scent of these baking in the oven and preferred the plain cookies over my jazzed up versions. I made a white chocolate ganache to sandwich between these chocolate disks and drizzle over a few of my misshapen cookies. I sent a container of these with my oldest to a St. Patty’s Day party…his friends requested some of his mom’s treats…and none came home. I took one bite…eh, they were OK…I much preferred the drips of ganache left on the baking sheet.
This recipe can be found in Dorie Greenspan’s Around My French Table.
I will be on spring break most of next week. I’ll check in with you all when we return. Till then, happy baking!
Many thanks to Kayle, The Cooking Actress, for honoring me with The Liebster Blog Award! It is a huge honor to be recognized by a fellow blogger…I hope you’ll check out her blog (look for her brown butter cookies…mmmmmm).
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I’ve tried this recipe before and I know its a winner. I can imagine what the white chocolate ganache would have done to it.
Congratulation on the award!
My son was walking by while I was browsing your blog and said: “Cool blog and sweet!”
Lizzy these look really amaxing! !!
I couldn’t resist adding orange to mine! I’ll be the ganache made them great, too!
Delicious ! Tried Pierre Hermé’s chocolate sable last time and I nearly broke my hands piping it hahaha Congrats on that well deserved award and enjoy your spring break !!! ;D
We are our own worst critics!! I bet they were more than meh.:)
Impressive recipe…Really have to try!
So delicious!
I love sables and that’s our “cookies” in Japan (not American kind due to more European influence I think?). This cocoa sables are the best! I can finish your batches pretty quickly.
Hey, hey, hey, u’re making me drool! I’ve never tried this before. I’m sure I could pop them all in no time. Lol!
they look lovely!
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Awh..I always love Fridays at your place Lizzy, many times it’s so…chocolate-ly good
ENJOY Spring Break!
Have a great mini break. Licking the bowls tend to be one of my favorite acts of baking.
Congratulation Lizzy on the award! Chocolate sablée are our all time favorite! These sablée looks fantastic with white chocolate ganache! Have a nice day!
Nice blog and photos, thanks for sharing with us!
I also get furious when I bake something and then it’s difficult to roll, to cut, not to mention to present on a photo! Your sablés look however perfect and beautiful! Happy holidays!
I’ve never tried this recipe before, but I want to try it soon… these sables look just delicious!
What a great idea to break up the cocoa flavor with white chocolate ganache! Great twist!
I find it hard to believe there’s anything baking related that you ‘stink at’ and these look fine in the pictures. I’d be all about the white chocolate ganache, though!
Those don’t look anything like my cookies
(Yours look way better)
Beautiful job, Liz!
I cannot imagine you being even slightly off baking – when I look at these delicious cookies I am just collapsing in a puddle
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
I think these look wonderful and probably taste just as great! Enjoy your holiday!
I love the drippings on the white choc over the cookies. Feel like dipping my fingers inside and licking all of it. Simple yet so wonderful to look at and admiring all the way to this Lizzy.
Hi Liz! I just read your post and saw that Kayle nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award… and that’s why I’m dropping by too
I nominated you too! I love following your recipes (and trying them! my family loved the cookies!) Have a great weekend!
Have a much deserved vacation! These look so good. Even though you aren’t an expert
As always, I’m happy I stopped by. I hope you have a joy-filled weekend. Hugs and love from Austin.
Goodness, I need to have this with my tea tonight!
After following you for years FINALLY there is something you aren’t good at? But you are Liz. These look amazing with the ganache… and it is just a touch they needed to be new and different from the same cookie Dorie has used before and again. Have a fun Spring Break!
These look so delicious and very easy to eat in one sitting! What a lovely bunch of photos you took and a great recipe to accompany them. Thanks for sharing, Lizzy. Also, I’m having a great giveaway today with four potential prize winners, so you should enter!
I liked these because they were not too sweet. That white chocolate ganache looks like it definitely balanced out the flavors. Love the little domed shapes!
I don’t think you can “stink” at anything related to baking
. These look heavenly.
My bf asked me why I didn’t put ganache on these. I will need to reference your post next time!
oh yummy, these look delicious despite your observations about cutting the dough! enjoy your spring break wherever you may be!! anne
These are amazing. Love that white chocolate ganache, Liz!
Mmm! This white chocolate ganache sounds incredible! I’m sure the cookies were still delicious, great idea to make cookie sandwiches out of them! Yum!
I hear ya on the slice and bakes…not my stick either.
They look amazing!
Congratulations on the Blog Award:) Three big cheers! I had trouble with this recipe also. I like your idea of rolling the dough into balls. Have a great weekend:)
Well you know I’m drooling over it all right now
You bake the best things, Lizzy, and we all know it! Your sables look really delicious, and I think that white chocolate ganache just pushed it over the edge – to greatness
They look perfect to me!
Enjoy your spring break, Lizzy!
Lizzy, I’m not crazy about slice and bake either, but I have to say mine came out pretty good! I found these to be really delicious. Love your take on them…white chocolate ganache…yum! Have a great weekend!
At least it’s warm where you are. We got about 10cm of snow dumped on us yesterday. :\
I have made these before and I too had the same problem with the little chips in these and cutting them. You did find a great solution and I will keep this tip in mind. I like the way they look. I would have to get out a magnifying glass to see what you are talking about! These cookies are delicious by themselves but the ganache puts them over the top! Enjoy the weekend Lizzy!
this looks really delicious n very new also….loved it….congrats on award..
Maha
Mine didn’t slice neatly either. That ganache masks all manner of flaws, though. Pretty!
I was looking for a recipe regarding White Chocolate Ganache. Thanks for transferring this recipe to us…
Congratulations on the award! Have a fabulous spring break!
very pretty with the white chocolate drizzled in top!
I would be happy if my sables looked as good as yours. You can shape and cut for me, any time.
These look good to me, I would like mine with the ganache!
Have fun on spring break, whatever you are doing!
The tip I once learned to keep the shape is to use a leftover paper towel dowel to store the dough in the fridge. It seems to help.
Ha Ha!! I stink at slice and bake too…never understood why that happens…seems so easy! But I must say, these look incredible!
I know you say you’re not good at slice and bake cookies, but I think these look wonderful. That white chocolate ganache is to die for!
Nice way of dressing up the cookies. They look great.
Hey, they look really good!
These look pretty good to me!
Wow, this looks amazing! Have a wonderful spring break.
i may be a little sleep deprived but i don’t see anything wrong with these cookies. They look so good!
Enjoy your Spring break Lizzy!
Liz…congrats on your award! You deserve all the accolades you get. You have such a terrific blog, great photos and great recipes! These sables look like they will melt in your mouth! And that photo with the white chocolate ganache is incredible!!! Have a GREAT weekend! : )
I don’t know – they look pretty darn good to me! But everything you bake looks great! You can certainly blame it on the weather …isn’t it freaky?! But I do love it. I’m just hoping it doesn’t turn cold again.
Enjoy your spring break oh, and CONGRATULATIONS on your award…so well deserved, sweet friend. You are multi-talented and sweeter than ganache!
nice blog posting. I like it to stop here and read your articles
Lizzy they look beautiful and so pretty, almost to good to eat! Little works of delicious art and yumminess. Happy Spring break to you! FFX
Lizzy,
Your cookies look good to me! Everything you bake is wonderful, including these cookies. I like the white chocolate ganache;)
Enjoy you Spring Break!
You’re very modest Ms. Lizzy, these cookies are great. Have you ever tried packing your wrapped dough in juice or tomato paste cans to keep the round shape. Slicing them with dental floss or fishing line may help with a cleaner cut also.
Che buoni!!!! buon weekeend! a presto
these look fantastic! Lots of hard work paid off!
I think they look wonderful Liz! The white choco ganache… ahhh… sigh.
I ll try your recipe one day.
My mouth is watering again, these cookies look absolutely delicious, hmmm…
Congratulations on challenging yourself to bake cookies using this method which can be trying(to say the least)! Your sablés look wonderful:-)
I think your cookies look delicious.
The white chocolate ganache sounds yummy!
I don’t know why but I have trouble with a roll and slice cookie as well. I think yours look very good especially with the drizzle.
Dearest Lizzy, I love reading your posts. I feel like I am in the kitchen and you are talking with me.
I bet that ganache was good, but I am sure the cookies were too. I suppose we are our own worst critic.
I usually look at my kids eyes when they taste something. If the brows go up with a smile I know I should post it.
Thank you Lizzy for taking the time to explain the apps to me. It was kind.
I hope you have a wonderful, memory filled spring break.
Blessings my dear, Catherine xoxo
Those look awesome!
The drizzle of ganache on the tops of your cookies is so pretty, Lizzy. I hope you have a wonderful spring break!
these look like chocolate hor’ derves. i could swallow dozens of ‘em. easily.
delicious as always, and have a happy spring break!
These look great and I’d love to have one now. Thanks for the recipe!
Sorry to hear these disappointed you. They look really good, especially with the white chocolate drizzle. Have a great spring break!
Lizzy-your cookies look pretty darn good to me. I would enjoy them with some hot tea now!
So happy that you could get away for a fun spring break. Enjoy your time away:DDD
BTW-re: the Liebster Award, that is supposed to be given to a blogger with less than 200 followers…LOL
I had to decline receiving one not too long ago, because of this very reason in the rules!
Have a wondeful spring break, my dear friend!
xoxo
The ganache looks great on the sables. Glad your son and friends enjoyed them.
I stink at slice and bakes too. (and all things floury:) However, that ganache is calling my name!!! Enjoy spring Break!!!
I stink at slice and bake!! My dough never comes out right! I think yours look great!! Have a great vacay!
Yum O as someone we know would say. Enjoy your spring break Lizzy.
Sam
I’ve never had white chocolate ganache but it looks delish. A nice change from chocolate.
Lizzy, If the kids are happy, Mama’s happy, right? Your cookies looked delicious and I think I would have liked the deep intense chocolate flavor to have been balanced with the ganache. Sounds good. Looks good. Mary
i love that you did chocolate instead of the classic butter! These look out of this world!
I love this week’s recipe – sables are so, so perfect at melting in your mouth, and then you have a chocolate version? Mmmm. Looks delicious!
Congrats with the award Liz, and your cookies look much better than you think, in fact I think they look just perfect, and the chocolate ganache on top makes them sensational
I’m just now catching up on the comment love… I don’t know how other people keep up! Anyway, you’re a great baker, these look wonderful!
Oh, and a couple of days back I gave you the “Sunshine Award”, so now you can add that to your accolades as well.
oh yum..I love this recipe!!!
congrats on your blog award.
and have fun!!!
Lizzy~ These look amazing! I love your photos and the recipes leave me wishing we where neighbors.. That is why I choose you for the Versatile Blogger Award because I ♥ your blog and think you have a wonderful blog! Have a fantastic week my friend!
http://thymeofourlife.blogspot.com/2012/03/versatile-blogger-awards.html
These look great, Lizzy! I think both the slice and bake ones and the rolled ones look great! Thanks for sharing this
Liz, these sables are just amazing, I’ve never made them before!
Seeing all these Dorie posts realy make me want to get a copy of that book. Hope you have a fun and relaxed spring break.
They look perfect to me. My weakness is that I cannot make cinnamon roll cookies for the life of me. I’ve never been able to roll that dough up no matter how hard I try.
Congrats on the Liebster Blog! The white chocolate ganache looks so good! I liked these better than my hubbie, but anything dark chocolate is good for me!
I have not really felt real hunger for a while – was on some nasty medication with this side effect. But guess what, your recipe and your blog IS making me hungry this morning! Have a great Monday!
By the way I also suck at those roll and slice cookies – mine don’t look round, but you managed!
The white chocolate ganache filling sounds incredible with these!
Liz, these look amazing and the white chocolate filling sounds so delicious!
The white chocolate addition sounds great!
They look pretty darn good to me, Liz, and I like your addition of white chocolate ganache.
Congrats on your award!
These look mighty pretty to me! And I am sure they are equally delicious
I know how you feel about slicing cookies – I always have Mr. C roll and slice ours, because mine always get all smushy and fall apart.
I had my first sable cookie in Paris (not to long ago
– I can’t wait to get my hands on another. This recipe has got to get into my oven, stat!
These weren’t my favorite, either. Glad I wasn’t the only one. I do like the idea of white chocolate ganache!
I’d never considered a white chocolate ganache…thanks for sharing this wonderful recipe!
Congratulations upon receiving the Liebster Blog award (and all your awards). Well earned!
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