# Sparkling Shortbread Cookies (Sablés Diamants)

These are delicate, buttery shortbread cookies with a melt in your mouth texture and a signature sparkling sugar coating.

- Servings: 50 servings
- Total time: 23 min
- Cuisine: British
- Category: Dessert
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 190 g unsalted butter, softened
- 90 g confectioners’ sugar (powdered sugar)
- 20 g egg yolk
- 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise, seeds scraped
- 275 g all-purpose flour, sifted
- 250 g granulated sugar, for coating

## Instructions

1. Start with a high quality butter.
2. Add powdered sugar.
3. Add the yolk.
4. Add all-purpose flour.
5. Put dough on a wooden surface.
6. Knead the dough.
7. Split dough in two parts and form logs.
8. Wrap the log in plastic wrap.
9. Pour sugar in a plate.
10. Cover the log with sugar.
11. Cut the dough.
12. Put cookie slices on the baking sheet.

## Equipment

- Baking sheets lined with silicone baking mats
- Parchment paper

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKU3DuwJzXL/?igsh=Z3doNnJkaDk5dXl1
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/cd2c380b-366e-4827-8abf-b1d6277df6d4
- Extracted: 2025-06-02

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