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Updated on September 30, 2026 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links · 32 Comments

Almond Sablé Dough Recipe

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Almond Sablé Dough is great for making those trendy cream tarts

Almond Sablé Dough is a sweet shortcrust made with ground almond flour. The cookie is sweet, flaky and very tender but stable enough to support filling and toppings. 

For an almond free version, check out my Pate Sucree recipe (tart dough). 

Almond Sablé Dough

Recipe

Almond Sable Dough

Almond Sablé Dough

The perfect dough for making those letter and number shaped pastries that are all the rage on the internet right now!
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Prep Time: 20 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes minutes
chill: 1 hour hour
Total Time: 40 minutes minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 2 8" tarts
Calories: 1742kcal
Author: Liz Marek

Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 2 ¼ cups AP flour unbleached, keep a little extra for dusting
  • ¾ cup almond flour
  • ½ teaspoon kosher salt
  • 8 oz unsalted butter
  • ½ cup powdered sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 large egg yolk

Instructions

Instructions

  • In a bowl, whisk together the AP flour, almond flour and salt.
  • Put a paddle attachment onto your stand mixer, then combine butter and confectioner's sugar in mixer bowl. Mix on medium-low speed until combined, about 4 minutes.
  • Mix in the egg and then the yolk, allowing each to be incorporated before adding the next. In 2 parts, add the flour mixtures, scraping down the sides of the bowl after each part.
  • Turn bowl over with dough mixture onto a clean lightly-floured work surface. Divide in half, shape into flattened desks and wrap each 1 in plastic warp. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour, or overnight.

Notes

Dough can be stored frozen for up to 1 month. Thaw it overnight in refrigerator before using. Baking directions depend on the type of pastry. For the cutout fruit tart, cut your design out of the dough, put cutout design in freezer for 10 minutes, then bake 350ºF/176ºC until golden brown.

Nutrition

Calories: 1742kcal | Carbohydrates: 146g | Protein: 28g | Fat: 118g | Saturated Fat: 61g | Cholesterol: 429mg | Sodium: 636mg | Potassium: 212mg | Fiber: 8g | Sugar: 31g | Vitamin A: 3090IU | Calcium: 161mg | Iron: 8.8mg
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About Liz Marek

Liz Marek is a professional cake artist and recipe developer who has been teaching baking and cake decorating since 2008. She founded Artisan Cake Company in Portland, Oregon in 2009 and now runs Sugar Geek Show, where she publishes kitchen-tested recipes, food science explanations, and step-by-step tutorials.

Liz is best known for sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes. She won Netflix's Is It Cake? Holiday 2 in 2025 with a hyperrealistic Santa cake, and has competed on and won Food Network cake competitions. Cake Masters Magazine named her one of the top 10 cake artists in 2017. She is the author of Artisan Cake Company's Visual Guide to Cake Decorating and a graduate of the Oregon Culinary Institute.

Her focus is on explaining not just how a recipe works but why it works, so bakers can troubleshoot instead of guess. Every recipe on this site is tested before it's published.

Liz teaches full-length cake tutorials, including sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes, at Sugar Geek University.

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  1. Valerie Fox says

    June 03, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    What kind of filling do you use for this tart? Thanks

    Reply
    • Elizabeth Marek says

      June 04, 2020 at 9:38 am

      Any filling you want 🙂 Pastry cream with fresh fruit is very common, lemon curd, chocolate ganache etc

      Reply
  2. Letha says

    June 01, 2020 at 9:10 am

    5 stars
    I've been making the trendy number/letter tarts for a couple of years now, and use this recipe for my base. I love it. It is so easy to work with and allows the flavors of the fillings and toppings to shine.

    Reply
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