Lemon & Poppy Seed Cake

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• Sarah

  19 July 2012

  Sarah rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Made two lemon and poppy seed loaf cakes yesterday with this recipe. Thank you for sharing Louiza it was very nice. I love lemon and poppy seeds so couldn't wait to try it. I have a fan assisted oven so had to adjust the tempreture to 150 degrees on my oven. Checked the cakes after 40 minutes and they were starting to go very brown around edges. Put a skewer inside middle of both cakes and they wasn't cooked fully. Turned oven down to 120 degrees and cooked cakes for another 15 minutes. Checked with skewer again and they were cooked perfectly. I love the lemon icing, superb compliment to the cakes. My husband loved the cake more than I. Am still not sure about the poppy seeds. May make them again with less poppy seeds as the poppy seed flower is quite strong. Definately make again though superb! and very easy to make.

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• FrenchFoodie

  05 October 2012

  FrenchFoodie commented on this recipe

  Excellent cake! Lemon and poppy is such a wonderful combination. Very moist and zingy with icing. Very easy to make!

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• michellem

  16 March 2013

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  When I was making this cake, I suspected that the volume of the mixture was too great for one loaf tin. Instead of going with my instincts, I followed the recipe and used a loaf tin 10 x 20 cm. When I went to check on it at about 30 mins, half of the mixture was dripping out onto the floor of the oven. The cooking time was also well over an hour-probably because of the volume. The flavour and texture was nice enough, but would prefer it to be more lemony. I think perhaps it would be worth a go with half or 3/4 of the quantity and see how it goes. Either that or use 2 tins.

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• micra

  07 April 2013

  micra rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Agree with MichelleM, volume is too much for one loaf tin so I made cupcakes with the excess. Texture came out good but I followed the other comments as I had a fan oven so at 150c, it took about 1 hour in total. Was too sticky when I checked it at 40 and 50 mins. Next time I would use less poppy seeds and make it more lemony.

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Ingredients

• 50g poppy seeds
• 185ml warm milk
• 220g caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 300g self-raising flour
• 200g unsalted butter, softened
• 1 lemon, rind grated, juiced
• 300g icing sugar
• 20 x 10cm (base measurement) loaf pan

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• 50g poppy seeds
• 185ml warm milk
• 220g caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 300g self-raising flour
• 200g unsalted butter, softened
• 1 lemon, rind grated, juiced
• 300g icing sugar
• 20 x 10cm (base measurement) loaf pan

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