Christmas Chocolate Cookies

La Sablésienne Christmas Chocolate Cookies. Dark butter sablés from the 1670 line in a midnight-blue festive box.

La Sablésienne Christmas Chocolate Cookies are round cocoa sablés with chocolate pieces, 100 g in a Christmas box with a carousel motif. No gingerbread, no spiced biscuits, no praline. A French chocolate cookie for the weeks leading up to the holidays.

La Sablésienne Christmas Chocolate Cookies are serrated butter sablés with cocoa, baked in Sablé-sur-Sarthe according to recipe 1670 Marquise de Sablé. The original packaging is called étui de Noël, and the variety is sablés tout chocolat. Lift the lid, and you will first smell warm butter, followed immediately by cocoa. Each cookie bears the embossed year 1670 on its surface. The first bite gives way without resistance, leaving a chocolatey, finely crumbly melt.

Cocoa in the dough, chocolate in small pieces

These sablés get their chocolate flavor from two sources: cocoa powder colors the shortcrust dough dark, while chocolate pieces add sweet, compact accents. The cocoa provides a slightly bitter note that balances the sugar in the dough.

Just under one-fifth of the weight is butter, while a good one-tenth is chocolate pieces. The butter carries the flavor, while the cocoa gives it structure and depth. As you chew, you will repeatedly encounter a piece of chocolate that melts more slowly than the dough around it.

Anyone expecting a hard, crunchy cookie to dunk thoroughly will find this sablé too delicate. The cookies are not suitable for people with allergies to wheat, milk, egg, or soy. Traces of nuts and sesame may be present.

From espresso to a dessert glass

The chocolate cookies work best with drinks that themselves bring little sweetness. Two sablés are enough with an espresso or a strong black tea. A third is perfect with a cup of cocoa.

In a dessert, they provide the crispy layer. Roughly crumble a portion bag and sprinkle it over mascarpone cream, vanilla ice cream, or quark with orange segments. For a quick layered dessert, alternate layers of crumbles, whipped cream quark, and sour cherries in a glass. If you prefer chocolate in a light dough, choose the butter cookies with chocolate pieces without cocoa.

Our tip: Always open only one bag at a time. The 100 g are packaged in portions so that the remaining cookies stay dry. The sablés are not suitable for a vegan diet, as butter and egg make up the entire recipe.

Why La Sablésienne Christmas Chocolate Cookies crumble so delicately

The chocolate cookies belong to the 1670 Marquise de Sablé line, the more melt-in-the-mouth of the two recipes from the Biscuiterie. They contain more butter and more egg, with no baking leavener.

The egg is worked directly into the dough rather than brushed on as a glaze. Without a leavener, the dough hardly rises in the oven. It remains flat and crumbles in the mouth instead of splintering. Sablé means sandy in French and describes exactly this finely crumbly break.

A bronze mold embosses the serrated edge and lettering on each cookie. They are baked slowly on metal sheets and removed by hand. For the dough, the Biscuiterie uses butter from the region, wheat flour from mills in Sarthe, and free-range eggs.

Tradition dates the small biscuits to July 1670. At that time, Madeleine de Souvré, the Marquise de Sablé, is said to have made them famous with Prince Condé. The Biscuiterie itself has been around since 1962, and Amélie Loret Scherrer has been running the company since 2003. You can find all the Biscuiterie varieties under La Sablésienne.

A festive box that needs no wrapping paper

The box is midnight blue and shows a fairground carousel under the stars, with a deer and a white horse circling. It measures about twelve centimeters on each side.

This means it fits in a St. Nicholas boot, on a desk for Secret Santa, or as a place setting gift next to every seat at the Christmas table. As a gift for a holiday visit, it replaces a bow and card.

Because the cookies are in several small bags, they can also be divided among two or three recipients. Empty, the box can later serve as a box for small items. You can find more ideas for the gift table in our Christmas selection.

Place the midnight-blue box unopened under the tree. The carousel on the lid only reveals that something dark and buttery awaits inside.