If you're of Polish descent like me, and you love poppyseeds ... [View all]
Then you have to try this cake!
I was looking for a poppyseed cake recipe a few weeks ago to make at Christmas time. I came across this one from Claire Saffitz which looked really good. However, I had a hard time finding the poppyseeds in the stores. Maybe everyone was buying them for Christmas baking, or it was just one of those things that is hard to find these days, I dunno. My son who lives near Akron came to the rescue and brought me a jar of them he found locally.
Well, the cake making got postponed to New Year’s since Covid decided to attack all of us in this house right before Christmas. In a way, it’s better I made it for today, because we had so many sweets and other goodies around at Christmas. And this cake was a great dessert to go with our pork and sauerkraut dinner. It has a real “old world” flavor with the poppyseed that I just love. Like something you’d only find in an Eastern European bakery sitting atop a white doily. Lol. I think this may be a new tradition for New Year’s Day dessert!
A note, I usually don’t make substitutions the first time I make a recipe, but due to poor planning when I was mixing it up, I realized I didn’t have enough canola oil, so I used half canola oil and half coconut oil. Not sure if it changed the flavor much, but it came out delicious. Maybe next time for presentation purposes, I will sift some powdered sugar over the top.
Claire Saffitz video
Written Recipe
https://neperfect.com/2021/05/08/poppy-seed-almond-cake/
Mine
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