Steamed Lemon Poppy Seed Cake
From midgelet 12 years ago
- 20 to make
- Serves 8
I am having so much fun with my new electric pressure cooker and to find out one can make yummy desserts like cheesecake, bread puddings, creme brulee, rice and custard puddings, brownie pudding cakes and such. Read more This lemon poppy seed cake is just delightful. The texture like a pound cake, and it's light and moist- no one would guess it was made in a pressure cooker! This recipe comes from the book: The 200 Best Pressure Cooker recipes by Cinda Chavich. See less
Ingredients
- I adapted the recipe slightly from stove top PC for my electric pressure cooker shopping list
- 1 stick of unsalted butter, room temp shopping list
- 1 cup sugar shopping list
- 2 eggs separated, room temp shopping list
- 1 tsp vanilla shopping list
- juice and zest from 2 lemons divided shopping list
- 1 1/4 cup flour shopping list
- 1 tsp baking soda shopping list
- 1 tsp baking powder shopping list
- 1/2 tsp salt shopping list
- 2/3 cup milk shopping list
- 1/3 cup poopy seeds shopping list
- glaze shopping list
- 1/2 cup confectioners sugar shopping list
- half of the lemon zest and juice shopping list
How to make it
- Note: cooking time is 20 minutes, about 10 minutes to prepare recipe adapted for my electric pressure cooker:
- Cream butter and sugar till fluffy
- Beat in egg yolks and vanilla
- Beat in half the lemon juice and half the lemon zest
- Combine the dry ingredients and add to the creamed mixture alternately with the milk in 2-3 additions
- Fold in the poppy seeds
- Beat whites stiff
- Fold into cake batter till combined
- Pour mixture in a greased and flour 1 liter ( 4 cup) souffle dish or bundt pan that fits into your cooker
- Mine cake pan was a small 8 inch size- fit perfectly into the large pr cooker pan )
- Seal top of cake pan secure with foil
- Place 2 cups of water in the cooker
- Place a wire trivet on the floor of the cooker
- Now using foil, tear off a 2 ft long piece and fold over a few times to make a long strip that will be used to remove cake pan
- Center cake pan on midpoint of strip and lower into cooker to set on the metal trivet and fashion the remainder as a handle to remove the pan
- Pressure cook 20 minutes.
- Let steam drop naturally
- Carefully remove cover
- Lift cake pan out of cooker to cooling rack
- Remove foil handles and foil cover
- Cool Completely on rack
- Invert onto cake platter and drizzle with glaze
- Note: this was just as good as my best oven baked lemon poppy seed cakes
- I actually served it warm and it was just wonderful
- Wrap cold cake well.
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