This Orange Poppy Seed Cake is rich and moist, full of citrus flavor and enough poppy seeds to satisfy a poppy seed lover.
The buttery base is so soft almost melting in your mouth. The poppy seed layer is light and makes a great combination with the soft cake and oranges.
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Ingredients
Cake Base
- 1 ¼ sticks (150g) butter
- 1 ¼ cup (160g) flour
- 2 tbsp (16g) powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp (10g) baking powder
- 3 egg yolks
- 2 tbsp (30g) sour cream
Poppy Seed Cream
- 9 oz (250g) ground poppy seeds
- 1 cup (240ml) milk
- 3 tbsp (45g) butter
- 3/4 cup (150g) sugar
- 4 tbsp flour
- 3 egg whites
- 1 tsp (5g) vanilla extract
- Finely grated zest of 1 orange
- 1 tsp (4g) baking powder
- 3 tbsp (45g) apricot jam - between layers
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C (350F).
- For the cake base use a medium bowl and mix all ingredients until well blended and results a moist,sticky dough. Pur it into a 10-inch (26 cm) spring form pan (with a removable base). Add a layer of apricot jam on top of the cake base.
- Poppy seed cream. Bring milk and poppy seeds to a boil and stir occasionally until all the milk is absorbed. Remove from the heat and let it cool. Meanwhile whip the egg whites until foamy. Add butter, sugar, baking powder,flour, orange zest and vanilla extract to the poppy seed mixture until well blended. Fold in gently the whites into the poppy seed mixture.
- Pour the poppy seed mixture over the prepared base and jam. Bake for about 30 minutes. Serve with supreme orange slices.
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Definitely gonna try this recipe! Looks crazy delicious!
It’s so pretty and the apricot jam is so so good!
This cake is just beautiful! It almost looks like a chocolate topping. I love the combination of orange or lemon with poppy seeds! I can’t wait to try this one! : )
I love poppy seeds. This cake is beautiful and sounds so delicious. I will keep it in mind for my next brunch!
What a beautiful cake. I love the flavors that are mixed here.
This looks so good! I’m definitely going to try it out!
Iits look crazzzzzzzzzy. I cant wait to take a bite of this delicious cake 🙂
It looks soooo great!!!
thank you.. delicious too.. hopw you will give it a try some day
I just did it and it’s so good! Thanks a lot!
Maybe my country is showing here. but how so you put the jam on the base considering its not cooked yet you cant spread it out until its cooked….