Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Lemon poppy seed cake

If you are going to try any of my recipes and you love lemon than you have to try this one! Imagine a moist lemony sponge covered with a thin but very sweet layer of melted sugar and more lemon. Sooo yummy!

Ingredients

55gr unsalted butter at the room temperature
60gr flour
1tsp baking powder
55gr caster sugar
2 eggs
90gr ground almonds
20gr poppy seeds
1 lemon, juice and zest

For the lemon syrap
50gr caster sugar
45gr lemon juice

For the lemon icing
115gr icing sugar
½ lemon, zest and juice


Process

Preheat the oven at 180 °. Line a 8x25cm form with baking paper.
Using a mixer, beat the butter and the sugar until light and creamy. Add the eggs one at the time and beat in between until combined. Fold in the flour, poppy seeds, lemon and the ground almonds.
Transfer the mixture to the baking dish and bake for around 40min or until the tooth pick stuck in the middle comes out clean.
Make a lots of little holes in the cake using a tooth pick.
Cook the sugar and the lemon juice until the sugar dissolves. Pour the syrup over the cake.
In a bowl sift the sugar and combine with lemon juice and the zest. Using a spatula mix until combined.
Pour the icing over the cooled cake, starting from the middle and letting it drizzle down the sides. Let the icing harden before cutting. 




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