Lemon-Poppy Seed Butter Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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15
ingredients
- 2 3⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 3⁄4 cups sugar
- 8 ounces butter, at room temperature
- 2 grated lemons, zest of
- 4 extra-large eggs, separated
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1⁄3 cup poppy seed
- icing sugar
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Butter and flour a Bundt pan.
- Sift flour, baking powder, soda and salt into a bowl.
- Beat butter at high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
- Add sugar in 2 additions, beating for 2 minutes after each addition.
- Beat in lemon zest, vanilla, and egg yolks and beat until light-colored.
- On low speed, beat in flour in 3 additions and buttermilk in 2, beginning and ending with flour.
- Stir in poppy seeds.
- Beat whites separately until foamy.
- Add pinch of salt; continue beating until firm, not stiff peaks form.
- Stir ¼ of whites into batter to lighten; then fold in remaining whites.
- Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake in lower third of oven for about 55 minutes.
- At serving time, sprinkle with icing sugar.
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Reviews
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I made this for a colleague's birthday at work and everyone raved about it for hours after! I served the cake with a glaze made of the juice of the lemons I zested for this recipe: about 2 tablespoons lemon juice / 1 cup sifted icing sugar. I also substituted the all-purpose flour for pastry whole wheat flour (and substracted 1 tablespoon flour for each cup). Delicious! Will definetly keep this recipe at hand!
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This was good. It tasted alot lighter than I had expected, as the batter was quite thick. It also came out a very pretty golden color. It did, however, seem kind of crumbly, next time I will probably reduce the baking time, I think mine may have dried out in the 55 minutes. I served with Lemon Curd#37890.
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I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
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What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
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