Poppy Seed Gugelhupf
From midgelet 15 years ago
- 50 minutes to make
- Serves 12
This is very similar to a relatives recipe. This one is not yeast based. Use a turban shaped or gugelhopf pan for baking Very aromatic cake, with poppy seeds and golden rum. Use fresh ground poppy seeds if possible by Olga Drozd from Recipezaar
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, at cool room temperature shopping list
- 1 cup confectioners' or powdered sugar shopping list
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature shopping list
- 1 grated lemon, zest of shopping list
- 2 cups cake flour shopping list
- 2 teaspoons baking powder shopping list
- 1 pinch salt shopping list
- 3/4 cup poppy seed, ground shopping list
- 1/2 cup milk shopping list
- 2 tablespoons golden rum shopping list
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract shopping list
How to make it
- Position a rack in the center of the oven and heat to 350°F
- Using a cylinder shaped pastry brush, butter the inside of a 9 to 9 1/2 inch Gugelhupf mold or fluted cake pan.
- Coat with flour, tapping out the excess.
- Beat the butter in a medium bowl using a handheld electric mixer on high speed until smooth, about 1 minute.
- On low speed, beat in the confectioners’ sugar.
- Return the speed to high and beat until the mixture is very pale and light in texture, about 3 minutes.
- One at a time, beat in the eggs, then the lemon zest.
- Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together into a bowl, and stir in the ground poppy seeds.
- Mix the milk, rum, and vanilla in a glass measuring cup.
- Stir in half of the flour, then half of the milk, then repeat.
- Spread evenly in the pan.
- Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes.
- Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Invert onto the rack to unmold and cool completely.
- MAKE AHEAD: The cake is best the day it is made.
- Cover leftovers tightly in plastic wrap and store at room temperature.
- To refresh, heat slices in a toaster oven.
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nice recipe thanks
chichimonkeyface
in Albany loved it
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Sounds so different and yummy! Love the poppy seeds and rum here. This should turn out amazing!
juels
in Clayton loved it
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The cake sounds wonderful! I love the combination of the ground poppy seeds and lemon zest. Thank you for sharing :) ^5
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