The Keebler Company has registered the brand name Sandies, which it uses for a line of shortbread cookies.
Pecans are often used as a main ingredient, and may be crushed and included in the batter, or else placed atop the cookie whole.
[3][4] The Keebler Company mass-produces and markets Sandies Classic (plain), Pecan, and Cashew shortbread cookies.
[5] The sandie is a type of sablé, a popular round shortbread cookie that, according to the letters of the Marquise de Sévigné, might have originated in Sablé-sur-Sarthe in France in 1670.
[6] "Sablé" means "sanded" in French, and is so named because of its crumbly and fine texture.