Your New Favourite Shortbread: Petits-Beurre (French Butter Cookies)

These delicate, perfectly crisp biscuits are the French version of shortbread (pair them with hot chocolate for best results).
If you’ve travelled in France, you might be familiar with the ubiquitous Petit-beurre cookie. It has been around since 1886, when it was invented by Louis-Lefèvre Utile in Nantes. The cookies are still imprinted with his initials (LU) and are the best-known product of all the Lefèvre Utile range. This recipe is the closest I can get to my store-bought favourites.For more irresistible baked goods, check out these 20 make-ahead options for your holiday bash or our most popular cookies of all-time.Excerpted from In the French Kitchen with Kids by Mardi Michels. Copyright © 2018 Mardi Michels. Published by Appetite by Random House®, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.

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