
Smiley-face ‘sable’ cookies by Morinaga. Sable is a French butter cookie made with flour, sugar, butter and hard-boiled egg yolks. They are famously crumbly, which is how they got their name – sable is French for ‘sand’.

Smiley-face ‘sable’ cookies by Morinaga. Sable is a French butter cookie made with flour, sugar, butter and hard-boiled egg yolks. They are famously crumbly, which is how they got their name – sable is French for ‘sand’.
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that made me smile! I would love to know where those cookie cutters come from..
How erudite (sable meaning sand)!
Lee—- i would say somewhere like LOFT http://www.loft.co.jp/ but I’ve recently noticed an etsy page selling japanese goodies…. maybe they have something similar?
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5259107§ion_id=5177605