Poppy Seed Cake

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Ready In:
1hr
Ingredients:
18
Serves:
12-16
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ingredients

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directions

  • CAKE:.
  • Mix poppy seeds with 2 T. milk and vanilla sugar and allow to sit for at least 15 minutes. Bring butter to room temperature. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
  • Cream butter and powdered sugar with a mixer at medium high speed. Add eggs and extracts, mix well. Add poppy seed mixture, mix on low speed.
  • Sift flour with baking soda and salt, and add half of this mixture at a time to the mixer, alternating with the cup of milk. Beat until batter is smooth, scaping down sides of bowl.
  • Pour into greased and floured 9 x 13" glass pan or 2 9" round cake pans. Bake until golden and springy, 20-25 minutes for cake layers, or 35-40 minutes for the 9 x 13" pan. Let cool before frosting.
  • FROSTING:.
  • Beat the room temperature butter and sweetened condensed milk together until smooth. Add extracts and food coloring, then add powdered sugar a cup at a time, beating until smooth. The frosting should be pretty stiff. Makes enough for a layer cake, make half the recipe for the sheet cake.

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Reviews

  1. Made the layer cake version with the frosting for work morning tea. Found the cake to be flavourful, moist and the frosting was to.die.for! I used soy condensed milk and egg replacer with no problems. Adding this to my Keeper file! Made for ZWT 7 (Jacques Kitchen Challenge)
     
  2. I love poppy seeds and am always looking for ways to use them. This was a very nice, plain cake - which is exactly what I wanted, and my kids enjoyed with their milk. I decided to forego the icing and just sprinkled lightly with icing sugar.
     
  3. Delicious! Thank you Michelle for a terrific coffee cake. Made for ZWT, please see my rating system as I rate tougher than most.
     
  4. Very nice...it's got a LOT of poppy seeds so you might be feeling very "happy" when you've finished a piece...I do! (: Made for ZWT3.
     
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