Lemon Poppyseeds

Rose's signature cake and mine is the lemon poppyseed cake from the Cake Bible. This is Rose's cookie version. They are crunchy but capture the flavor the cake. They disappear quickly.

These capture perfectly the flavor of the best lemon-poppyseed muffins or cake. And the texture is wonderful- the inside is slightly moist and soft, but crispy from the poppyseeds, while the outside is a bit crunchy.

When I made these, they came out slightly flatter than the hemispheres shown in the book, but I was still happy with them. The roundest cookies in my batch were the smaller ones, and the ones that had more finely ground almonds pressed into the outside.