Shortbread Cookies with Warm Apples and Jam

Name: Shortbread Cookies with Warm Apples and Jam
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: french
Ingredients: 1/3 cup almonds, ground to a fine powder; 1/4 cup sugar; 2 egg yolks; 1/3 cup (3 ounces) unsalted butter, softened; 1 cup bleached flour; 1 tablespoon unsalted butter; 4 tart cooking apples, peeled, cored, cut into thin slices; 1 tablespoon sugar; Fruit jam

By Patricia Wells

Updated Dec. 7, 2022

Total Time: 25 minutes, plus overnight refrigeration
Rating: 4(18)
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WHILE chocolate desserts, fresh fruit sorbets and fruit tarts re main the classic, ever-popular French desserts, lighter, cookie- based desserts are appearing more frequently. Several Paris restaurants have recently offered sable, or shortbread cookie, desserts. This recipe comes from Jacqueline Fenix, a fine restaurant in Neuilly, a Paris suburb, where the chef, Michel Rubod, offers warm shortbread with sauteed apples and homemade apricot jam. At Tour d'Argent the menu recently featured a dessert made of three layers of sables interlaced with fresh raspberries, all set in a pool of fresh raspberry sauce, while at Jacques Cagna sables came warm from the oven, accompanied by sauteed apples and cinnamon ice cream.

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Ingredients

Yield:6 servings

Shortbread

⅓cup almonds, ground to a fine powder
¼cup sugar
2egg yolks
⅓cup (3 ounces) unsalted butter, softened
1cup bleached flour

Apple Slices

1tablespoon unsalted butter
4tart cooking apples, peeled, cored, cut into thin slices
1tablespoon sugar
Fruit jam

Ingredient Substitution Guide

Preparation

Prepare Shortbread Dough
1. Step 1
  In food processor blend ground almonds, sugar and yolks. Add butter and flour and process until well blended. Remove dough and shape into 6-by-2-inch roll. Refrigerate in plastic wrap for 24 hours.
2. Step 2
  Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
3. Step 3
  Roll cookie dough into ¼-inch thickness, then cut into 18 rounds 2½ inches in diameter. Place on baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes, or until golden.
4. Step 4
  Prepare apple slices while cookies are baking. Melt tablespoon of butter in medium-size skillet over moderate heat. Add apples and sugar and cook, stirring occasionally, just until slices are cooked through, about 10 minutes.
5. Step 5
  To serve, place 3 warm cookies on each plate, top with portion of apples and serve immediately with pot of jam.