Third-generation pastry chef Francois Payard shares his favorite cookie recipes. The bestsellers at his popular New York City patisseries and cafes, the recipes he learned from his father, and the ones he makes at home. They range from the simplest sables (butter cookies) to the most picture-perfect macarons, with everything in between: unassuming spice cookies, jam-filled linzers and other sandwiches, elegantly fluted and scalloped canneles and madeleines, cakelike financiers, and beautifully iced cutout cookies for every holiday. All adapted for home cooks and tested in a home kitchen, these treats are easy to make yet offer a taste of "Paris-meets-Upper East Side" luxury to anyone, anywhere.