Poppy Seed Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 35 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• 1/3 lb quark
• 4 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3 ounces sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 lemon, zest of
• 2/3 lb flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 vanilla beans
• 6 eggs
• 1/2 lb butter, softened
• 1/2 lb honey
• 1 pinch cinnamon
• 1/3 lb almonds, finely ground
• 1/2 lb poppy seed, ground

Recipe

• 1 for the dough mix first seven ingredients well.
• 2 mix flour and baking powder and stir one part into the dough mixture. knead in the rest of the flour.
• 3 if the dough is too dry you can add one or two tablespoons of water.
• 4 preheat oven (180°c, 355°f) and grease a baking tray.
• 5 put dough onto tray and roll out so that the whole tray is covered.
• 6 half vanilla beans lengthwise and scrap out the vanilla seeds. set aside.
• 7 separate eggs into yolks and egg whites. beat the egg whites until stiff and set aside.
• 8 now put dough into oven and bake for 10 minutes.
• 9 while the dough is in the oven beat butter until creamy. then add egg yolk by egg yolk.
• 10 add vanilla seeds, honey, cinnamon, grounded almonds and grounded poppy seeds. mix until well blended.
• 11 fold in egg whites.
• 12 after 10 minutes take out the dough of the oven and reduce heat to 160°c (320°f).
• 13 spread topping equally over the dough and bake for another 30 to 40 minutes or until topping is firm.
• 14 take cake out of the oven and cut into pieces. let cool completely on a cooling rack.
• 15 note on poppy seeds: try to get already grounded poppy seeds. to ground them is a lot of work. if you can't get grounded poppy seeds, you should ground them first, because it may take a while.