Description
I’m so excited to bring you this delicious Gluten Free Lemon Poppyseed Cookies With Earl Grey Glaze recipe. Believe it or not this recipe started as a lemon poppyseed loaf which then transpired into making these yummy beauties.
Ingredients
Scale
The Cookies
- 1 1/2 cups Namaste Foods Perfect Flour Blend its gluten free
- 1/8 tsp baking soda
- 1 egg { room temperature }
- 1 stick melted unsalted butter or earth balance
- 3/4 cup Sugar
- 1 tsp Honey
- 3 tbsp Fresh squeezed Lemon Juice
- 2 tbsp lemon zest
- 1 1/2 tbsp poppyseeds
Earl Grey Glaze
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tbsp butter { room temperature } or earth balance
- 1 1/2 tsp earl grey tea
- 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 3 tsp dairy free milk
Instructions
- Mix flour and baking soda in medium bowl then set aside.
- In a large bowl mix egg, butter, sugar, lemon juice, and honey on medium high speed for 2 minutes.
- Now stir in poppyseeds, lemon juice, and lemon zest.
- With a spatula gently and slowly stir your flour mix into your wet mixture until combined. ( don’t over mix ) Cover and refrigerate for no longer than one hour.
- Preheat oven to 325° approximately 15 minutes before you pull the cookies out of the refrigerator
- Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Using a cookie scoop, scoop the dough and form into a ball in your hands. Slightly/gently press the top of the cookies down with the palm of your hand to flatten the top of the cookie a bit.
- Bake cookies for approximately 13 minutes
- Let cool
- While cooling, steep four bags of Earl Grey Tea in a half cup of water for 10 minutes.
- Once done steeping, Remove teabags squeezing any extra liquid out of each one.
- Now make your icing. In a medium bowl, mix your butter, milk, fresh lemon juice, and your 1 1/2 teaspoon fresh brewed earl grey tea. Gently mix in your powdered sugar, scrape down sides of bowl with spatula until all ingredients are smooth and combined.
- Now that your cookies are cooled, frost each cookie top with the icing. Sprinkle a dash of fresh grated lemon zest on each cookie. Enjoy 🙂
Notes
When using Namaste Foods Perfect Flour Blend make sure to gently and slowly mix it into your wet ingredients, it gets thick fast.
- Category: desserts
- Method: bake
- Cuisine: american
