Recipe: Shortbread cookies with butter cream and almond paste

Name: Sablés crème au beurre et pâte d'amande
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 8 min
Total time: 23 min
Yield: 15 portions
Ingredients: 250 g de farine100 g de beurre pommade125 g de sucre50 g d'amande en poudre1 oeuf2 cuill. de levureArôme vanille1 jaune d'oeufCannellePour la crème au beurre:200 g de beurre pommade200 g de sucre glaceColorant rougeArôme vanille

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Prep 15 min

Cook 8 min

Total 23 min

Servings 15 serv.

A beautiful recipe for shortbread with homemade almond paste.

Ingredients for 15 servings

250 g flour
100 g softened butter
125 g sugar
50 g ground almonds
1 egg
2 tbsp. baking powder

Vanilla flavoring

1 egg yolk

CinnamonFor the butter cream:

200 g softened butter
200 g icing sugar
Red food coloring
Vanilla flavoring

Step-by-step directions

1- the shortbread dough
Preheat your oven to 200°
Mix in a bowl the flour, baking powder, sugar and ground almonds.
Add the butter, flavoring and egg.
Knead the dough with your hands.
Form a ball (at this stage, you can flavor your dough with cinnamon, orange, lemon...)
Roll out the dough and cut shapes with a cookie cutter.
Arrange on a sheet of parchment paper.
Spread a little egg yolk with cinnamon on the biscuits.
Bake for 7-8 minutes and remove from the oven when they just start to brown.

2- the butter cream
Work the butter into a cream for 10 minutes using a mixer.
Gradually add the icing sugar and vanilla.
Add the food coloring.
Mix until you obtain a fluffy cream.
Keep in the refrigerator.

3- the decoration
Roll out the almond paste with a rolling pin.
Cut shapes with a cookie cutter.
Set aside.
Assembly:
Place half a teaspoon of butter cream in the center of your biscuit. Place your almond paste decoration on top by pressing gently to spread the cream.