How to Make Tasty Poppy seed cake #authormarathon. #4weekschallenge

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Poppy seed cake #authormarathon. #4weekschallenge In bowl of an electric mixer with a paddle attachment, cream together butter or margarine and sugar. Add egg yolks, vanilla, and poppy seed-milk mixture, and beat until smooth. Mix well; remove bowl from mixer and set aside. You can cook Poppy seed cake #authormarathon. #4weekschallenge using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Poppy seed cake #authormarathon. #4weekschallenge

  1. It's of butter.
  2. Prepare of icing sugar.
  3. It's of vanilla sugar.
  4. It's of crystal sugar.
  5. You need of Zest of 1 lemon.
  6. Prepare of big spoons rum.
  7. You need of eggs separated.
  8. Prepare of salt.
  9. It's of ground poppy seeds.
  10. You need of ground walnuts,(I used almonds).
  11. It's of bread crumbs.

Add cooled poppy seed mixture to creamed mixture, and egg yolks one at a time, beating well after each addition. Blend in sour cream and vanilla. Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Gradually add poppy seed mixture to dry mixture, beating well.

Poppy seed cake #authormarathon. #4weekschallenge step by step

  1. With electric mixer, mix for 20 minutes the butter, icing, sugar, vanilla sugar, egg yolks, zest of lemon and rum..
  2. With a cooking spoon add the poppy seeds, walnuts and b.crumbs..
  3. Wash the handle of the mixer and whisk the egg whites for a few minutes..
  4. Add the salt and and sugar and whisk until the whites are very stiff..
  5. Fold the egg whites into the dough and pour into a greased baking pan..
  6. Bake immediately in a Pre heated oven at 180°C for about 45 minutes..
  7. Check with a skewer if cake is ready..

Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into batter. This poppy seed cake is NOT dense, rich or overly sweet, and that's part of why I love it so much! It's like a step-sibling to angel food cake in how light, and mildly sweet it is. I also think it's beautiful in it's simplicity. Just a lightly dusting of powdered sugar.