Hungarian Poppy Seed Coffee Cake
"Makes for a delightful coffee cake to serve to family and friends. Frost with your favorite icing or dust with icing sugar before serving."
photo by ibakehungarian
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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12
ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 2 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 cup buttermilk (or sour milk)
- 1⁄4 cup poppy seed
- 4 eggs (separated)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
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Filling
- 2 teaspoons cocoa
- 1⁄3 cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon (I do not add the cinnamon)
directions
- Soak poppy seed in buttermilk for twenty minutes.
- Cream butter and sugar, add egg yolks, vanilla and beat well.
- In separate bowl - the flour, baking soda and baking powder using a whisk to mix).
- Add the dry ingredients alternately with the buttermilk/poppy mix.
- Beat eggs, fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites
- In a greased angel food pan (I use a bundt pan) spread batter in layers sprinkling each layer with the sugar/cocoa/cinnamon mix and swirl with a knife.
- Bake one hour at 350 degrees or until toothpick come out clean.
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Reviews
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Delicious coffee cake . Love the combination of the cocoa and sugar. I did omitt the cinnamon.I drizzled a light glaze over it,other than that followed the recipe. Thanks Gerry for sharing this wonderful recipe which will call for many repeats. -
Another winner Gerry! I was super excited to try this one because I had collected real poppy seeds from my garden last season, from the Papaver somniferum plant, and was trying this recipe out as an experiment (which I wrote about on my blog). The results were wonderful! Only advice, if using a bundt you might want to consider using only a single layer of filling for a more prominent effect. Thanks so much! -
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Made for a dinner party last night, and it was a hit, I used buttermilk per Syds recommendation, the filling was FANTASTIC ! No adjustments were made to this , and this is definately recommended to anyone that likes a quick dessert. A definate repeat. Made for AUS/NZ Recipe Swap#26 -
This is an excellant cake recipe Gerry. We enjoyed this delicious cake very much. I made 1/2 the recipe and used a snowflake shaped cake pan resulting in a tasty hard crusty outside and a beautiful moist and tender inside. The texture and crumb were perfect. The cocoa, sugar and cinnamon combo was to die for. I love what it did with the poppyseeds, a great flavor was achieved and enhanced. I lightly dusted the cake with icing sugar before serving. Thanks so much for sharing this keeper. -
This was my first time making a coffee cake - IT WAS WONDERFUL!! I think next time I'll let the cake cool before attempting to remove it from the Angel Food Cake Pan. It was so moist that the warm cake fell apart when I was plating. Thanks for posting the recipe! Made for ZWT4- Chic Chefs.
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Lovely coffee cake! I made this after I got the kids to school and took to a friend's for coffee. We all loved the flavour and texture. The poppy seeds provided their incomparable taste and crunch and the cocoa/cinnamon swirl running through the cake was very nice. I used greek yoghurt thinned with milk in place of the buttermilk and baked in a bundt.
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