Yep, I am on a lemon-roll! This installment of Ahu’s Lemon Addiction brings you these beauts – Lemon Poppyseed Cookies that are more like pillows than cookies – they are so light and fluffy! Easy to make and even easier to eat – get this cookie into your baking rotation! By the way, you can get a large quantity of poppy seeds for fairly cheap and they can be used for everything from these cookies, to cakes to even bagels. *checks teeth*
Pillowy Lemon Poppyseed Cookies
I love both lemon and poppyseed, so I thought why not combine them – lemon for it’s brightness and poppyseeds for their crunch! Just don’t forget to check your teeth after eating them.
In preparing this post, I noticed a lot of bloggers stack their cookies and I always thought it looked really neat – so I decided to try it!
Pillowy Lemon Poppyseed Cookies
Err, not quite right…
Pillowy Lemon Poppyseed Cookies
A little too much to the left… Perhaps a head-on shot?
Pillowy Lemon Poppyseed Cookies
Any way you shoot them, they’re gorgeous. I love the poppyseeds and little flecks of lemon zest peeking through. On a related note, I often wonder if other bloggers out there have a hard time taking photos of delicious looking food without taking a bite – despite having already had one (and by one I mean three)…
Pillowy Lemon Poppyseed Cookies
These cookies are light and fresh – flecked with lemon zest and studded with teeth-cloggingly delicious poppyseeds.
Pillowy Lemon Poppyseed Cookies
So bake up a batch – and take a bite – or three!
Pillowy Lemon Poppyseed Cookies
Pillow, chewy cookies with a lemony kick and studded with poppyseeds!
- 1.5 cups flour
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 egg
- Juice of 1 lemon
- Zest of 1 lemon
- ½ tablespoon of poppyseeds
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Mix the butter and sugar until it's a bit airy (use the whisk attachment if using a stand mixer).
- Add in the vanilla extract (see my earlier post for homemade vanilla extract!), lemon juice, lemon zest and egg to the mixer and continue mixing until combined.
- Carefully add in the remaining ingredients (flour, baking powder and poppyseeds).
- Let the dough chill while you preheat your oven to 325 F
- Once your dough has chilled and your oven is hot, scoop your cookies (use a scooper if you have one) onto a baking sheet. I like my scoops at about 1.5 tablespoons.
- Bake for 14-18 minutes, until you see the edges turning golden brown.
- Remove from the oven and cool on a rack.
- Enjoy!
Yummm…. they look so delicate and delicious and your writing sure adds to the temptation 😉 Defiantly on my todo list. Thanks so much
Merci for the lovely comment Afsaneh jan, thank you for stopping by! 🙂
Cookies!!!! These are just the best!!
Few things:
Poppy seeds always make me think of the Seinfeld episode about the poppy seed muffins.
Also, I don’t have an oven can I still make this? Please reply immediately. Hahhahahha.
In all seriousness this looks great and good work on the photos.
LOL! I’m glad it doesn’t remind you of the thumb-dance!
They sound just perfect!…I really appreciate your clear concise instructions Ahu! (I will attempt to make these for sure)
I love good soft cakey cookies. Lemon and poppy are just meant to be together. These look awesome, Ahu.
These are gorgeous, and I love the photo shoot! I will have to try these, as I think lemon is my favorite dessert flavor. Happy Sunday!
Dear Ahu, I love lemon and poppyseeds too – this is such a fantastic flavor combination and I have baked many a cake with those two components. But never such wonderful cookies – these treats look elegant, delicious and very pretty indeed! What a great recipe!
Have a nice Sunday,
Andrea
A lemon poppy cake sounds great – thank you for the idea!!!
Nice stack of cookies (at all angles). GREG
Lemon desserts are a favorite of mine! Stack those scrumptious cookies any way you like, they are lovely!
I love that these are pillowy
and
lemony
and
poppyseedy
and
ready in less than 30 minutes!
I was hunting for a lemon/poppy seed recipe, because I read a charming book of stories called The Poppy Seed Cakes to my daughter. I remember reading the book regularly as a child…always checking it out from the library…and now, it has been reprinted. Anyway, we wanted to make something to go with the book we enjoyed. Thanks for this recipe! As a lemon lover, I can’t wait to try it!
Thank you, Ahu, for this cookie.
My husband fell in love with their delicate flavor and unusual texture, and asked me to “add them into the rotation.”
I made them just as you wrote, but needed more baking time (about 20 min.)
Rava from Tel Aviv
I just made these cookies and they are incredible!! Thank you so much for this recipe!
These look so light and fluffy!
Kari
http://www.sweetteasweetie.com
I love lemon flavored cookies and I’m dying to try these ones! I could eat a dozen of these 🙂 Great job, Ahu!