Zesty Lavender and Lemon Curd Cookies
Buttery, delicious cookies with a delicate lavender scent and refreshing lemon curd will love even those who think that lavender has nothing to do with the food.
Ingredients
- 250 g all-purpose flour
- 120 g butter (room temperature)
- 70 g powdered sugar
- 1 small egg
- 3 g shredded lavender flowers (see the tips in recipe notes)
- 2 tablespoon lemon juice
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ⅓ teaspoon salt
- 80 g lemon curd
Instructions
- Sift the flour and mix it with shredded lavender and baking powder. Set it aside.
- Combine sifted powdered sugar, salt, butter, and lemon juice in a food processor. Then add the egg and pulse again to combine.
- Then add the dry ingredients and pulse a few times until you see the mixture starts to form a dough. Take it out of a food processor and shape it into a ball. Gently flatten it and put it in a fridge for 1-2 hours.
- Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to a minimum thickness of 0.5 cm or more. Cut the desired form with your cookie cutter, transfer the cookies to a baking sheet covered with baking paper and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C (356°F) for 10-12 min, depending on how crispy you want them to be. Make sure they don't burn.
- Put them on a cooling rack and once they've cooled, spoon lemon curd onto the center of one cookie and top it with another cookie to form a sandwich.
- Serve them the very same day. If you won't eat them all, put them in an airtight container and keep them in the fridge for a maximum of 2-3 days.
Notes
- Be sure to use lavender that is intended for use in cooking. For this recipe, I used lavender from tea bags, and the amount of lavender I needed was contained in 2 filter bags (3 g);
- When freshly baked, these cookies have a relatively crisp texture which will soften a little bit when you sandwich them with lemon curd. If you won't serve them the same day, you can bake them a day in advance and fill them up before serving.
- If you don't want, you don't need to sandwich these cookies with lemon curd. In that case, you can increase a bit amount of sugar if you want, and in this case, you can keep them for a maximum of 7 days in a cookie tin.
- The recipe for lemon curd can be found here.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1cookieCalories: 99kcalCarbohydrates: 13gProtein: 1gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.2gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 18mgSodium: 86mgPotassium: 16mgFiber: 0.3gSugar: 5gVitamin A: 136IUVitamin C: 0.5mgCalcium: 9mgIron: 1mg
Nutritional information provided is an estimate based on ingredients data and should be used for informational purposes only. Actual nutritional content may vary based on factors such as portion size, preparation methods and ingredients used.