{"id":826,"date":"2021-10-29T17:11:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T17:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/?p=826"},"modified":"2022-12-14T14:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T14:30:26","slug":"breton-shortbread-tassies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/index.php\/2021\/10\/29\/breton-shortbread-tassies\/","title":{"rendered":"BRETON SHORTBREAD TASSIES &#8211; the ultimate butter cake in the guise of a cookie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They say that only two groups of people give free samples away: drug dealers and fudge makers. It isn\u2019t quite true. Our friend Jean-Marc Chatellier offers free samples of this ultimate butter cake at his famous bakery in the riverside township of Millvale, PA. But the logic is the same in all three cases: one taste and you\u2019re hooked. The only difference is this: <u>Breton Shortbread<\/u> a\/k\/a <u>Butter Cakes<\/u> a\/k\/a <u>Gateau Breton<\/u> beats them all when served with a dollop of cr\u00e8me fra\u00eeche and a berry or two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This recipe went in and out of Volume I for ages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SCOTT: <em>\u201cIt\u2019s a cake, not a cookie.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KATE: <em>\u201cSo what? We cut it into bars half the time anyway.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SCOTT: <em>\u201cNo bar cookies!\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KATE: <em>\u201cBut it\u2019s too good to leave out.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SCOTT: <em>\u201cDo it as a tassie?\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KATE: <em>\u201cI dunno\u2026 Isn&#8217;t that cheating?\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See what happens when you have two authors and both of them are of two minds? But now that we have a blog to fill, with that harvest tang in the air? Oh, heck yeah. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Breton-Shortbread-Tassies-in-a-bowl-1024x931.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-849\" width=\"556\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Breton-Shortbread-Tassies-in-a-bowl-1024x931.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Breton-Shortbread-Tassies-in-a-bowl-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Breton-Shortbread-Tassies-in-a-bowl-768x698.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Breton-Shortbread-Tassies-in-a-bowl-1536x1396.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Breton-Shortbread-Tassies-in-a-bowl-2048x1861.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Breton-Shortbread-Tassies-in-a-bowl-1200x1091.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 85vw, 556px\" \/><figcaption><em>&#8220;Here my friend. Have a taste. One little taste can&#8217;t hurt you, can it?&#8221;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Honest to God, folks. You can build an entire bakery around this recipe. They are <em>that<\/em> good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Breton-Shortbread-Tassies-recipe-791x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Breton-Shortbread-Tassies-recipe-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Breton-Shortbread-Tassies-recipe-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Breton-Shortbread-Tassies-recipe-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Breton-Shortbread-Tassies-recipe-1187x1536.png 1187w, https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Breton-Shortbread-Tassies-recipe-1200x1553.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Breton-Shortbread-Tassies-recipe.png 1554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say that only two groups of people give free samples away: drug dealers and fudge makers. It isn\u2019t quite true. Our friend Jean-Marc Chatellier offers free samples of this ultimate butter cake at his famous bakery in the riverside township of Millvale, PA. But the logic is the same in all three cases: one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/index.php\/2021\/10\/29\/breton-shortbread-tassies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BRETON SHORTBREAD TASSIES &#8211; the ultimate butter cake in the guise of a cookie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35,24,13,19],"tags":[61,37],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-butter-cookies","category-french-cookies","category-region","category-book-toc-categories","tag-breton-shortbread","tag-ultimate-butter-cookies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Breton-Shortbread-closeup-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}