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Today I'm going to show you how to make a very popular cookie in Morocco.
In French it is called Sables a la Confiture.
What I call it is the perfect cookie.
Its basically 2 small butter cookies that are filled with jam in the middle.
They look like a little flower with a hole inside, so you can see the jam filling.
They are crunchy, they are smooth, they are sweet, they are tasty
they are cute, they are perfect!
Its super easy to make, I am going to show you how to make them step by step.
First sift the flour.
In a large bowl, mix the flour, the baking powder, pinch of salt, and ground cloves. Set aside.
Using the flat paddle of a stand mixer (or a regular egg ***),
cream the soft butter with the sugar, at low speed,
until you get a creamy consistency and the sugar is completely dissolved in the butter.
Add the egg and the egg yolk, increase the speed a notch or two, and continue beating.
Add the vanilla extract.
Continue beating until you get a smooth mixture.
Add the dry mixture little by little to the wet mixture
and mix until you get a smooth and soft dough.
Wrap the dough in a plastic wrap and place it in the fridge for 1 hour.
Preheat your oven to 350 F degree (180 C) while shaping the cookies.
Sprinkle some flour on your work station.
Take the dough out from the fridge
and work it a bit with your hand to soften it.
the dough has a lot of butter, so when you are working with it and it becomes sticky,
just wrap it in a plastic wrap and place in the fridge until it cools down
then continue working with it. If it is too hard, leave it a few minutes on your kitchen counter and it will become soft again.
Using a rolling pin, roll the dough.
It should not be too thin or too thick (around 2-3 millimeters).
Using a cooking cutter to cut cookies in the dough.
Ideally they should have the shape of a flower, but feel free to use the shape of your choice.
Using the back of a piping tip (or any other object you have) make a hole in the center of the cookies.
Half of the cookies should have a hole and the other half should NOT.
Bake the cookies for around 10 minutes.
Watch them closely when they are baking - they bake pretty fast.
The cookies should not get color, they just become slightly golden.
In mid-time of baking, turn your baking pan around, so the cookies cook evenly
(the cookies in the back of the oven come to the front and vice versa).
Once done, place the cookies on a grill to cool down.
Once cooled down, sprinkle the cookies WITH the holes, with powdered sugar.
Put jam on the cookies WITHOUT the holes,
then top them with the cookies WITH the holes.
You will get a beautiful apricot jam cookie!
Serve cold with Moroccan mint tea!
Bon Appetit!