Carrot Coffee Cake With Poppy Seed Streusel

Submitted by Sharon123

"It's Sunday morning, and you want coffeecake, a good cup of coffee, and your newspaper. Try this coffeecake! From Vegetarian Planet. New England, Scandinavian"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 15mins
• Ingredients: 19
• Yields: 12-16 slices

ingredients

• 3 large carrots, peeled and chopped (about 3/4 pound)
• 2 cups white flour, plus
• 3 tablespoons white flour
• 1 1⁄2 - 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cardamom (optional)
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 4 eggs
• 3⁄4 - 1 cup sugar
• 2⁄3 cup canola oil or 2/3 cup corn oil
• 2 tablespoons poppy seeds
• 1⁄4 cup sour cream

• Streusel

• 1⁄2 cup poppy seed
• 2 tablespoons butter, softened, plus some for greasing the pan
• 1 1⁄2 cups walnuts
• 1⁄2 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
• 3 tablespoons white flour

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350*F. Grease a Bundt or tube pan.
2. In a food processor, grind the carrots for 1 to 2 minutes, almost to a puree. Remove them to a small bowl and set aside.
3. Grind the streusel ingredients in the food processor for 1 minute.
4. In a large bowl, combine flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom(if using), baking powder and soda, and salt. In a smaller bowl, whisk together the eggs, sugar, oil, ground carrots, poppy seeds, and sour cream. Add the liquid mixture to the dry, stirring with a wooden spoon. Transfer half the batter to the cake pan. Sprinkle half of the streusel onto the batter, then pour the remaining half of the batter over the streusel. Top with the remainiing streusel.
5. Bake the cake for 1 hour or until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Let the cake cool in its pan for 30 minutes. Invert it onto a serving dish. Serve the coffeecake at room temperature. Enjoy!

Reviews

[Jade 3]

I really liked this and polled the eaters on their thoughts...only thing that could make it better would be a cream cheese or confectioners sugar glaze. The poppy seeds really made the texture interesting. Thanks for posting.

 

[amezb]

simply the BEST coffee cake EVER.

 

[Kittencalrecipezazz]

Sharon this cake is wonderful! I increased the cinnamon to 2 teaspoons and the sugar to 1 cup, I think I might increase it even more next time and mabey try half white and brown, thanks for a great cake recipe I will make again soon!...Kitten:)