Cyril Lignac's petit beurre cookie recipe

To change from the usual snacks, Cyril Lignac offers us to prepare homemade little butter biscuits! Simple and quick, this recipe only requires ingredients already present in your cupboards.

 Cyril Lignac's petit beurre cookie recipe

Wednesday is children's day! To have a good time together, why not prepare some small butter biscuits ? In any case, this is what Cyril Lignac on RTL! ' I discovered that Lu petit beurre was invented by Louis Lefèvre-Utile in 1886, and I didn't know that at all. “, says the chef. recipe very simple and quick will bring a joyful note to the to taste !

The ingredients of Cyril Lignac's petit beurre biscuit

To reproduce the petit beurre biscuits, Cyril Lignac uses the recipe of the shortbread and adds some flavors to give an original note. Here are the ingredients needed:

  • 250 g of flour
  • 125 g of sucre
  • 125 g beurre
  • two egg yolks
  • Vanilla, orange blossom or lemon zest

You will need cookie cutters to make this recipe.

The stages of Cyril Lignac's petit beurre biscuit

This biscuit recipe is very quick to prepare, it only takes about ten minutes to cook. Here are the steps to follow:



  1. Pour the flour and sugar. Mix with the butter to obtain a shortcrust pastry.
  2. Add an egg yolk to bind the dough.
  3. Make a small ball of dough. You can flavor it with vanilla, orange blossom, lemon zest or a little rum.
  4. Place the dough between two sheets of parchment paper and roll out it avoids putting a lot of flour on the table which, afterwards, will change the texture of the biscuit “, specifies Cyril Lignac.
  5. Form small butters using cookie cutters. Glaze the biscuits with an egg yolk.
  6. Bake at 180°C for ten minutes. ' The dough must be well caramelized, very crispy “, explains the chef. Let the cookies cool on a wire rack for a few moments.

For even more delicacies, the chef suggests preparing a ganache by mixing cream and chocolate, or adding a little spread between two cookies and then sticking them together. You thus obtain small filled butter biscuits!

The complete chronicle of Cyril Lignac on RTL is to be found here .Source journaldesfemmes.fr