Lemon Poppy Seed Cake

Name: Lemon Poppy Seed Cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: Serves 8–12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 40 g (1½ oz) poppy seeds; 125 g (4 oz) self-raising flour; icing sugar; 100 g (3½ oz) caster sugar; 100 g (3½ oz) butter, plus extra for greasing; 2 large eggs (size 1–2); grated zest and juice of 1 lemon; 50 g (2 oz) granulated sugar; 2 tablespoons warm water

Preparation info

Serves
8–12

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
55 min

Appears in

American Baking

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1986

About

A lovely, light, American version of an Eastern-European poppy seed cake. Serve it at your next tea party for certain success.

Ingredients

40 g (1½ oz) poppy seeds
125 g (4

Americas
United States
Cake
Vegetarian
Baking

Method

Preheat the oven. Grease a 20 cm (8-inch) sandwich tin and line it with greased greaseproof paper. Grind the poppy seeds in a clean coffee grinder or place them between two sheets of cling film and use a r