Recipe: Perfect Polish Poppy Seed Cake

Polish Poppy Seed Cake. Come See our Unique Cake Gifts! Check out our new Mini Cake Explosion Boxes and Mini Cake Variety Packs This traditional Polish cake is rich with poppy seeds and usually served for special occasions like Christmas and Easter, but it's wonderful any time. A short crust base is topped with a poppy seed mixture, then glazed.

The Polish know how to cook with Poppy seeds since they precook them before placing into the dough for added flavor. This Polish recipe for poppy seed roll is known as topielec or drowned cake because of the interesting technique used. After the dough is mixed, but before the sugar is added, it is gathered into a ball and "drowned" in a bowl of cold water until it rises to the surface. You can cook Polish Poppy Seed Cake using 22 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Polish Poppy Seed Cake

1. You need of For the dough:.
2. Prepare of Bread (strong) flour.
3. It's of All-purpose flour.
4. Prepare of Instant dry yeast.
5. Prepare of Sugar.
6. Prepare of Milk.
7. Prepare of Salt.
8. You need of Butter.
9. You need of Sour cream.
10. Prepare of Egg.
11. You need of few drops Vanilla essence.
12. You need of Grated lemon peel.
13. You need of For the filling:.
14. You need of Blue poppy seeds.
15. You need of Milk.
16. Prepare of Butter.
17. Prepare of Honey.
18. Prepare of Finely chopped orange peel (candied).
19. It's of Finely chopped raisins.
20. Prepare of Egg.
21. It's of Sugar.
22. It's of Brandy.

Grease and line the base of a deep cake tin Poppy Seed Roll is a frosted yeast cake, rolled and filled with dense poppy seed filling. Our Polish version is known as 'Makowiec' (pronoun.: Mak-ov-yetz) and is overflowing with chopped nuts, dried fruit and liquor-soaked raisins. It's the perfect traditional treat for your family and friends during the festivities. Makowiec is the Polish name for poppy seed roll, a traditional cake where poppy seed paste is placed between layers of dough.

Polish Poppy Seed Cake step by step

1. Place the dough ingredients into the bread maker and set it on the "dough-making course." While that's working, prepare the filling..
2. Blue poppy seeds are hard to find in stores, so I ordered them from "Amika" (a local restaurant ingredient import store)..
3. Wash the poppy seeds and place them in a colander to drain. Place the poppy seeds and the milk into a pot and cook off the liquid..
4. Grind the boiled poppy seeds with a mortar and pestle..
5. Return Step 4 to the pot and reduce the heat to low. Add the butter, honey, orange peel, raisins, and sugar, and mix it all together..
6. Beat the egg well and add to Step 5. Mix until it becomes a paste. Lastly, add the brandy..
7. Remove the dough from the bread maker and place it on a plate. Cover with plastic wrap and let it sit for 15 minutes..
8. Preheat the oven to 180°C..
9. Place the dough on a work surface dusted with flour, and use a rolling pin to roll it out into a rectangle..
10. Spread the filling on top as shown..
11. Roll it up from one of the long edges. Seal both ends so that the filling doesn't spill out..
12. Bake in the oven..
13. Once baked, let it cool. While still warm, cover with aluminum foil as shown. This will help it remain moist..
14. Once it has cooled completely, coat completely with icing and it's done..

Raisins, almonds, honey, and orange peel can be added to the cake in order to enhance its flavors. Ideally, makowiec should not be too sweet. Return poppy seed puree to same saucepan. Add sugar, butter, raisins, almonds, vanilla extract, and honey. Whisk egg white in a bowl into stiff peaks, fold into the poppy seed filling.