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Poppy seed and lemon curd sandwich biscuits

Name: Poppy seed and lemon curd sandwich biscuits
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Ingredients: unsalted butter 200g, softened; caster sugar 200g; lemon 1, zested; egg 1, large; plain flour 300g; spelt flour 100g; poppy seeds 2 tbsp; icing sugar 200g; lemon 1, zested to make 1 tsp and juiced to make 1 tbsp; unsalted butter 50g, softened; lemon curd 8 tbsp

1 hour 35 minutes + chilling + cooling
makes 20
A little effort

If you’re a Jammie Dodgers fan you’ll love these lemon cookie sandwiches with crunchy poppy seeds and their creamy, zesty filling

Our rating

5.0

March 12, 2019 at 4:59 pm

Try our lemon poppy seed cookies, then check out more delicious cookie recipes such as these classic chocolate chip cookies.

Ingredients

BISCUITS

unsalted butter 200g, softened
caster sugar 200g
lemon 1, zested
egg 1, large
plain flour 300g
spelt flour 100g
poppy seeds 2 tbsp

FILLING

icing sugar 200g
lemon 1, zested to make 1 tsp and juiced to make 1 tbsp
unsalted butter 50g, softened
lemon curd 8 tbsp

Method

Step 1

To make the biscuits, beat together the butter, sugar and lemon zest using electric beaters. Add the egg and beat again. Gently mix in the flours and poppy seeds until a dough forms. Form the dough into 2 discs, wrap tightly in clingfilm and chill for 2 hours.
Step 2

Roll the discs out between two sheets of baking paper to approximately ¹/2cm thickness. Use a round 6cm cutter to cut out biscuits, then cut out 2.5cm holes using a smaller cutter in the middle of ¹/2 of them. Put onto baking-paper-lined trays and chill for at least 20 minutes.
Step 3

Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4 and bake the biscuits for 10-15 minutes or until pale golden in colour. They will still be soft, so leave to harden and cool on the trays.
Step 4

To make the filling, beat together the icing sugar, lemon zest and juice, and butter in a bowl.
Step 5

Spread 1 tsp of filling on one side of the biscuits without the holes, making sure it reaches the edges. Lightly spread ½ tsp lemon curd on top. Press on a biscuit with a hole so it’s neatly filled with curd and sandwiched together. Repeat until all the biscuits are filled.