Hungarian Poppy Seed Coffee Cake

Gerry's Note:

Makes for a delightful coffee cake to serve to family and friends. Frost with your favorite icing or dust with icing sugar before serving.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 30 mins
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 12

• 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

Filling

• 2 teaspoons cocoa
• 1/3 cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon (I do not add the cinnamon)

Directions:

1. Soak poppy seed in buttermilk for twenty minutes.
2. Cream butter and sugar, add egg yolks, vanilla and beat well.
3. In separate bowl - the flour, baking soda and baking powder using a whisk to mix).
4. Add the dry ingredients alternately with the buttermilk/poppy mix.
5. Beat eggs, fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites
6. 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.
7. Bake one hour at 350 degrees or until toothpick come out clean.

Reviews

[Dotty2]

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.

[averybird]

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!

[weekend cooker]

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