The best Lemon Poppy Seed Shortbread Cookies Recipe
Amour de cuisine · amourdecuisine.fr · 2025 · 50 cookies
Against 433 shortbread recipes
Less sugar than 92% of recipes and more starch than 88%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 92% of recipes: 25% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- More starch than 88% of recipes: 12% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
- No salt at all, where 63% of recipes use some (most of those 0.4 to 1.2% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (10)
- 220 g unsalted butter, at room temperature220 g
- 65 g powdered sugar (confectioners’ sugar)65 g
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
- Finely grated lemon zestn/a
- 30 g cornstarch (cornflour)30 g
- 260 g all-purpose flour260 g
- 1 tablespoon poppy seeds≈ 15 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice≈ 4.9 g
- 1 teaspoon milk≈ 5 g
- Powdered sugar (as needed)n/a
flour 260 gbatter 594 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 433 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Butter85% · 58th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar25% · 7th percentile · median 40%
- Starch12% · 89th percentile · median 0%
- Salt0% · 18th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 12 to 15 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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