Comments on: Citrus Sables

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 25 May 2011 20:15:30 +0000

Joy, I just made these for a meeting of my local quilting guild, and they were a smash. I also made some dark chocolate chip espresso cookies, so these seemed like the perfect counterpart. They got rave reviews! Also, I used some lime green and bright yellow colored sugar to roll the logs in, so they were very sparkly on the platter. Several people came up to me and said “Okay, what’s in these? They’re fabulous!” I will definitely be making them again. Thanks for making me look like a rock star!

By: Citrus Sables « Green Hills Market

Citrus Sables « Green Hills Market — Mon, 16 May 2011 14:15:15 +0000

[...] Citrus sables are a French butter cookie. Similar to shortbread. Crumbly then melty. Bursts of lemon and lime zest. Citrus sables are coffee’s best friend. Zested! By Joy the Baker. [...]

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:42:20 +0000

About how many cookies does this make? I’m making some for my old art teacher’s wedding shower!

By: Annalea

Annalea — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:53:23 +0000

sigh….the humble little butter cookie. my absolute favorite and often disregarded like a red-headed step-child. i’ve made your version twice now and i love them! in fact, i just put another batch in the freezer: cranberry and orange with half of the flour swapped out for whole wheat.

you’re probably too young :-) to remember video arcades but they were huge when i was a young teen. anyway, my mom (who was totally addicted to frogger and ms. pacman, i mean, like, patterns for each level addicted) would take me to this particular arcade at the local mall and right next to it was a little bakery that sold the most buttery butter cookies you could possibly imagine. so much butter, in fact, that within moments of filling the bag with them it would start to get translucent from all that glorious butter.

they’ve been my favorite ever since.

By: {Recipe: Key lime coconut sable cookies w/ white chocolate passionfruit glaze} « Chocolate & Ginger

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:48:35 +0000

[...] Recipe adapted from Joy the Baker’s Citrus Sables [...]

By: Terrianne

Terrianne — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:13:48 +0000

Hi Joy,

So, ever since I made these cookies months back my gram has been asking ‘when are you going to make those delicious citrus butter cookies again?’, and asking, and asking…I finally found the perfect oppurtunity to make them again when my lavender bloomed. I omitted the lime, doubled the lemon and added lavender. Joy, you have created an absolute winner of a cookie here. You rock, Woman!

By: Terrianne

Terrianne — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:21:40 +0000

Yay! And also, I didn’t have crystal or dazzle sugar so I sifted powdered sugar over them after they cooled. They taste just like cookies I used to get from a bakery that closed down in my neighborhood, here in Boston. Wow!

Thanks again. Happy Spring!!!

By: joythebaker

joythebaker — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:47:00 +0000

i’m glad they worked out for you. the lemon extract sounds like a great touch!

By: Terrianne

Terrianne — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:41:35 +0000

Thanks so much Joy. This is the fourth recipe of yours I’ve made. Pictures on my blog!

I, in addition to the egg yolk, added a teaspoon of lemon extract to the butter and sugar mixture.

I thought I may have royally screwed up because I was a little confused that “add sugars” meant the granulated AND the powered sugar. I added the powdered sugar after I mixed in the egg yolk, but no worries. They were perfect!

Thanks for all your inspiring dishes!

By: Olivia

Olivia — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:12:00 +0000

so. i just made these and forgot to add in the salt before the dough was in the freezer. i was wondering why the dough tasted so out of balance…so anyways, i used sea salt and a little sugar on the edges before slicing.

can i just say. lime flavored delicious with salt around the edges: MARGARITA COOKIES. YES. best mistake EVER. you should all make this mistake too.

@Emily–i wound up with 48. but i cut REALLY inconsistently–some are probably half an inch thick, some are like…a bit more than an eighth. facepalm. but that should still even out to about 4 dozen, i would wager.