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I had been reading about a famous french pastry chef named Pierre Herme and his equally famous Chocolate Sable Cookies.  After hunting around i found a recipe that is in english but the measurements are in grams instead of cups, making it pefect for me to use my new Digital Scale that my dad so kindly bought. These humble looking little cookies are light and crumbly (sable is the french word for sandy) and literally melt in your mouth. Each cookies is about 1/4 inch thick and about 2 inches wide. The sea salt is a really nice complement to the chocolate and seems to enhance the chocolate experience. I remember listening to a speech by a pastry chef where she described the importance of creating a more complex flavor by adding salt to the sweet in a dessert. For this recipe I lowered the temperature from 338F to 320F and it kept the little rounds more compact and upright like the pictures i saw on the website. If you like a more sophisticated , less sugary chocolate cookie then you will like these.