The recipe for making a cake with poppy seeds is very simple, and the result is surprising - it turns out delicate and fragrant baking. If you make a little effort, pouring the finished cupcake with icing or soaking in cream, you will get a very tasty dessert. The secret of the wonderful taste of lemon-poppy cake lies in the impregnation - lemon juice syrup.
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You will need
- - 350 g of sugar;
- - 300 g of flour;
- - 125 g sour cream;
- - 175 g butter;
- - 4 eggs;
- - 2 small lemons;
- - 3 tbsp. spoons of poppy seeds;
- - baking powder, salt, quick soda.
Instruction manual
1
Remove from the lemon 1 tbsp. a spoon of zest. Squeeze the juice from both lemons and set it aside. It will be needed to make syrup.
2
Separately mix flour, poppy seeds, salt, baking powder, soda.
3
Beat butter with 300 g of sugar and lemon zest, one egg at a time. Get a lush mass.
4
Add sour cream and flour mixture to the mass, whisking well after each addition.
5
Pour the dough into a mold, bake for 45-50 minutes at 180 degrees. Check the preparedness of the cupcake with a wooden stick or a toothpick - it should come out of the cupcake completely dry, but if there are wet lumps of dough left on it, then the baking is not ready.
6
Make syrup, it's simple: heat the lemon juice in a saucepan, pour in the remaining sugar (50 grams), mix until it is completely dissolved.
7
Cool the cake slightly, soak it with lemon syrup, sprinkle icing sugar on top.