Lemon cake with poppy seeds

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Serves
8-10 servings
prepTime
Prep time
20 minutes
totalTime
Total time
1hour and 10 minutes
Ingredients

2 cups (300gr) self –Rising flour
2 teaspoons (20 gr) vanilla sugar
1 pinch salt
1 teaspoon (6 gr) baking powder
3 teaspoons (20gr) poppy seeds
½ cup(125gr) unsalted butter (room temperature)
2/3 cup (170gr) sugar
2 eggs Medium size (room temperature)
1 cup (260 ml) milk
¼ cup (60ml) lemon juice
1 teaspoon lemon zest

For the topping
Icing sugar

Method

Preheat oven 180 c. Buttered a pan 11X 28cm. Then spread some butter on the base and flour on top of the butter.
Take a bowl and mix together the flour vanilla, salt, baking powder and poppy seeds.
Place the butter in the bowl mixer and mix in a medium speed until fluffy. Lower the speed and add one by one the eggs. Then add the zest and 
some of portion of the flour. Continue with the lemon juice and more flour and finally add the milk and the rest of flour. Stop the mixer and with a spatula clean the sides of the mixer bowl. Mix all well together and place it in the pan. Place the cake in the preheated oven and bake for 50 minutes. If you want to check if your cake is ready take a wooden barbeque skewer and place it in the center of the cake, if the skewer comes out dry then your cake is ready.
Remove from the oven. Let it cool and remove it from the pan. Place it upside down in a serving plate and dust the cake with the icing sugar.
Your cake is ready to serve.

A recipe by Chryso Lefou

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