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Poppy Seeds Butter Cookies with Lemon Icing

Magdalena Marsden
Soft butter cookies baked with ground poppy seeds and decorated with lemon icing.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Chilling 30 minutes
Course biscuits, Snack
Servings 40 cookies
Calories 90 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 250 grams plain flour all purpose flour
  • 100 grams poppy seeds measured when ground
  • 200 grams unsalted butter softened
  • 70 grams icing sugar fine - confectioners sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • large pinch salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Icing

  • 100 grams icing sugar
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon egg white

Instructions
 

To make the cookies

  • Weight or measure out all the dry ingredients first - the flour, poppy seeds, icing sugar and large pinch of salt. Place in a large bowl and mix all together.
  • Make sure your butter is softened before adding in to the flour mixture.
  • Add the butter, egg yolk and vanilla extract to the flour mixture and mix all together. I start with a wooden mixing spoon, but then I also use my hands to get everythig mixed in perfectly. You should end up with a soft, but firm (ish) dough.
  • Roll out the dough between two sheets of baking parchment to about 8 mm thickness.
  • Place on the baking tray with the baking parchments and leave in the fridge for about 20-30 minutes to firm up.
  • Preheat your oven to 160C or 180 Fan, 350 F or Gas mark 3.
  • Cut out your cookies shapes. I've used 5 cm cutter.
  • Use up all the dough and when you are re-rolling your dough try to handle it as little as you possibly can.
  • Place your cookie shapes on a baking tray lined with baking parchment, making sure you leave a gap between them. They are not going to rise or expand very much, but you never know!
  • Bake for 10 min or until they are slighly golden. They shouldn't change their colour too much - if they do, you baked them a little too long.
  • Leave to cool down on a cooling rack.

To make the lemon icing

  • Mix together the icing sugar, lemon juice and egg white to make a runny icing. You can use spoon to spread the icing on the cookies or use a piping bag to make a drizzle effect.
  • Sprinkle extra poppy seeds on the top or lemon rind or similar decorations.
  • Leave to set completely (this could take about 24 hrs, if you are thinking of packing your biscuits away, but you can eat them straightaway).

Nutrition

Calories: 90kcalCarbohydrates: 10gProtein: 1gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 16mgSodium: 2mgPotassium: 28mgFiber: 1gSugar: 4gVitamin A: 131IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 39mgIron: 1mg
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