Poppy Seed Cake

Total Time: 1 min Preparation Time: 1 min

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 2/3 cup poppy seed
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 2 1/2 cups flour, sifted
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 lb butter
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 whole orange rind, grated
• 1/2 tablespoon cinnamon, ground

Recipe

• 1 mix poppy seeds and buttermilk together, and let stand in refrigerator for several hours or overnight. sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. cream butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar; beat in eggs, one at a time; beat in vanilla and grated orange rind.
• 2 stir in flour mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture in about 4 additions of each, stirring until just smooth.
• 3 spoon half of batter into a greased and floured 10-inch bundt pan.
• 4 mix remaining sugar and cinnamon together and sprinkle mixture over batter.
• 5 pour rest of batter into the pan.
• 6 bake in 350°f oven for about 1 hour, or until a wooden pick comes out clean.
• 7 cool in pan for 15 minutes, then turn out to finish cooling.
• 8 cover tightly and let season for a day or two for best flavor.