Lemon Poppy Seed-Sour Cream Cake

Name: Lemon Poppy Seed-Sour Cream Cake
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: Serves: 12 to 14
Ingredients: sour cream; unsalted butter; baking soda; pure vanilla extract; cake flour; salt; lemon zest; eggs; egg yolk; superfine sugar; bleached all-purpose flour; poppy seeds; baking powder

Preparation info

Serves:
12 to 14

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
45 min

Appears in

Rose's Heavenly Cakes

By Rose Levy Beranbaum

Published 2009

About

A combination of sour cream batter filled with bursts of fresh lemon, this is my signature cake, grown up into a larger, ever more flavorful version. It is breathtakingly delicious—buttery and tender and melts in your mouth. I love the little crunch of poppy seeds, but the cake is also fabulous without them.

Ingredients

Batter

	Volume	Ounce	Gram
2

Dessert
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Plan Ahead

For best flavor, complete the cake 1 day ahead.

Preheat the Oven

Twenty minutes or more before baking, set an oven rack in the lower third of the oven and preheat the oven to 350°F/175°C