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Lemon-lime, coffee and drop cookies: three flavors from one dough

Name: Lemon-lime, coffee and drop cookies: three flavors from one dough
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 30 cookies, three flavors
Cuisine: Nederlands
Ingredients: 200 g soft unsalted butter; 125 g caster sugar; 250 g plain flour, sifted; 3 g salt; 1 lemon and 1 lime, zested; 3 tbsp limoncello; 3 tbsp poppy seeds; 1 tbsp instant coffee; 3 tbsp coffee liqueur; 1 tbsp ground coffee, for sprinkling; 1 tsp anise seeds; A pinch of ground star anise; 2 tbsp cocoa powder (a small amount through the dough, the rest for dusting); 1 heaped tbsp traditional black-and-white cookie powder, for sprinkling; Baking paper

26 October 2026 · DaPeppa

One basic dough, three different flavors: lemon-lime with poppy seeds, coffee and licorice with anise. The recipe by DaPeppa from Topkoks voor Thuiskoks part 7.

We already know that making cookies is not difficult. For the cookies in this recipe, we use the same basic dough every time: butter, sugar, flour and a pinch of salt. With that, you can make as many different types of cookies as you like. In this recipe, there will be three. Fresh and crisp with lemon, lime and poppy seeds. Deep and a little bitter with coffee. And for the connoisseur: drop, with anise and star anise.

Dennis van Rijen created this recipe for Topkoks voor Thuiskoks part 7 (2013), the cookbook whose proceeds go entirely to the World Food Programme's school meals program. He was featured in it alongside, among others, Jonnie Boer, Julius Jaspers and Niven Kunz. The flour came then from Zandhaas flour mill, from wheat from Flevoland.

Drink tip from the book: a dessert wine can work, but a Dutch liqueur is more original, such as the Limon Liqueur from Zuidam in Baarle-Nassau.

With thanks to

This recipe and collaboration would not have happened without the people behind Topkoks voor Thuiskoks. Special thanks to Mariëlle van Spronsen, who took the initiative and asked Dennis to participate, and to PostNL, which made the series possible. We have very fond memories of the day and of photographer Christian Fielden, food stylist Oliver Knight and stylist Isabelle van der Horst, who made these cookies look so beautiful.

Recept: Lemon-lime, coffee and drop cookies: three flavors from one dough

Voorbereiding 15 min
Baktijd 15 min
Resultaat 30 cookies, three flavors

Wat heb je nodig

Basic dough, 3 times (one batch per flavor):
200 g soft unsalted butter
125 g caster sugar
250 g plain flour, sifted
3 g salt
For the lemon-lime cookies:
1 lemon and 1 lime, zested
3 tbsp limoncello
3 tbsp poppy seeds
For the coffee cookies:
1 tbsp instant coffee
3 tbsp coffee liqueur
1 tbsp ground coffee, for sprinkling
For the drop cookies:
1 tsp anise seeds
A pinch of ground star anise
2 tbsp cocoa powder (a small amount through the dough, the rest for dusting)
1 heaped tbsp traditional black-and-white cookie powder, for sprinkling
Baking paper

Zo maak je het

Lemon-lime: zest the lemon and lime and chop the zest even finer. Juice half a lemon. Soak the zest in the lemon juice with the limoncello and add the poppy seeds.
Coffee: dissolve the instant coffee in the coffee liqueur.
Licorice: mix the aniseed with the ground star anise and a little cocoa.
Mix each flavor mixture separately with a portion of butter, sugar, and salt using a mixer until creamy. Knead in the flour by hand.
Wrap the three doughs in plastic wrap and let them rest in the refrigerator for an hour.
Preheat the oven to 170 degrees. Roll each dough into a log with a diameter of 3 to 4 cm and cut 8 mm slices.
Place the slices on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake for 15 minutes until golden brown. Let cool on a rack.
Sprinkle the coffee cookies with ground coffee. Dust the licorice cookies through a sieve with the rest of the cocoa and sprinkle black-and-white powder over them. Delicious with lemon curd with the lemon-lime cookies.

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