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Friday, May 14, 2010

Lemon Poppy Seeds butter cake_specially for my mom

I'm so happy my Lemon butter cake recipe well received by many bloggers. Here are few bloggers have tried this recipe. Thanks for trying out this recipe.

Please visit their lovely blog as they also share a lot of good recipes:-
1. Ching
2. Sulianmummy
3. Jane's corner
4. Ohbin
5.ahmok33
6.Reesekitchen
7. Tee kitchen


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Today I made this cake again, as I'm going to balik kampung (go back hometown) tomorrow to celebrate Mother's day with my mom, my mom prefer butter cake. Why i celebrate Mother's day after 1 week later, this is because my sisters have to celebrate Mother's day for their mother-in-law on the actual day. They have no choice, in Chinese family, husband's family comes first...I have no MIL, and I prefer we celebrate this day with our mom together.

In order to get better flavour, I baked today and keep this cake till tomorrow..

This time, I added blue poppy seeds, this is also my 1st time use poppy seeds, just like to present something new for my mom .



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Lemon glaze, without this, this cake will not taste nice..




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I also made some changes to the this recipe too.

Lemon Poppy Seeds Butter Cake
*use a 8” springfoam cake tin
(printable recipe)

Ingredients
250g butter
200g sugar
2 lemon, finely grate the rind
4 large eggs
280g cake flour
2tsp of double action baking powder
4tbsp milk
20g blue poppy seeds

Lemon glaze
8tbsp sugar
2 lemon, extract juice
2 lemon, finely grate the rind

1. Sift cake flour and baking powder in a bowl.
2. Beat butter with the sugar until pale and fluffy.
3. Add in egg one at a time, then add in lemon rind, mixing well.
4. Fold in the flour and milk, combine well. Last add in poppy seeds, stir well.
5. Pour the mixture into cake tin.
6. Bake in pre-heated oven at 180C for 50mins.
7. While baking the cake, start to prepare the lemon glaze.
8. Mix sugar and lemon juice and cook over low heat till sugar dissolved, add in lemon rind, set aside.
9. When cake done, remove cake from the oven and prick all over with a skewer.
10. Pour over the lemon glaze over the hot cake.
11. Ideally to leave cake to set overnight, to get better flavour.


Hopefully my mom will like this new way of butter cake...


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Happy Baking and Happy Weekend ahead...

53 comments:

Angel @ Cook.Bake.Love said...

I never try baking with poppy seed before as it is prohibited to sell in Singapore.

I am sure the cake taste great and ur mom likes it. :-)

MaryMoh said...

Mmmmm....my favourite cake. I can eat a lot. My daughter always makes it. I only enjoy :D It's the only cake she knows how to make!! I'm lucky :D

ReeseKitchen said...

Hey Sonia...another butter cake recipe!! Ooo...jot down jot down..heehee..;p Btw, I'm going to bake your "Lemon Butter Cake" now leh....haha! My friend will come over my house to bake together, who's on the way now..:)
Thanks ya!

Somewhere in Singapore said...

Veronica at http://veronicayyw.blogspot.com/

键轩惠馆 at http://kenthin.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_13.html

They also did the lemon butter cake....

Angie's Recipes said...

I must try this one as my man loves everything poppy!

Somewhere in Singapore said...

Just saw from Sally blog http://sallyjuslin.blogspot.com/, she also did it... hehe...

Cheah said...

I'm going to try this too, haven't made anything with poppy seeds for a long, long time.

温馨小屋 said...

不得不称赞你,你越来越厉害了!
你母亲一定会喜欢这蛋糕!

苏联妈妈 said...

I am sure ur mum will love this cake veri much.
have a pleasure time with ur love ones..

ann low said...

WOW! This is really a heat! I also want to join the crowd...hehee..

Jane Chew said...

When my mum is here, I made this for her too. She love it so much. I am sure ur mum willlike it as well. Once again tQ so much for sharing this lovely recipe.

ICook4Fun said...

I too think butter cake taste so much better the next day. My sisters too will be celebrating Mother's Day with my mom on Saturday. Wish I can be there :( You and your family have a wonderful time with your mother.

Honey Bee Sweets said...

Oh man! I didn't make it up on the chart! Okay, better do now ...since so popular. ;) Thanks!

tasteofbeirut said...

Lemon poppy seed cake is a big favorite around here and I love this one! It is funny my friend the other day was complaining that her son's wife puts her family first; i should tell her he should have married a Chinese instead of an American!

Barbara said...

That is lovely! Lemon poppy seed cake was a favorite of my mother too...and I like it just as much!

WendyinKK said...

Besides those that you mentioned, my non-blogging friend saw your recipe through my blog, and she told me the lemon cake was absolutely delicious.

Tangled Noodle said...

This must be a one amazing cake with all these bloggers making it! That's all I need - now I want to make it, too. 8-)

But really, this is a favorite flavor in our family although I have never actually made it myself. Thanks for this delicious recipe and I hope you, your sisters and your mother have a wonderful Mother's Day celebration together!

Vrinda said...

Delicious looking cake...

Bakericious said...

Sonia, this is in my must bake list as well, hope i m able to bake soon.

chow and chatter said...

looks wonderful have fun with your mum

said...

i make it before tis....my mom also like it so much....haha....

Jeannie said...

Just baked a chocolate lemon cake yesterday using Cheah's recipe! It's lovely. This shall be my next do do list! I have all the ingredients too! Beautiful cake, I am sure your mom will love it.

kitchen queen said...

lovely delicious and spongy cake with a nice click.

pigpigscorner said...

Wow looks amazing! I have to try tyou lemon butter cake recipe soon!

Mary Bergfeld said...

I am sure your mother will love this. I know I certainly would. This sounds delicious. I hope you are having a wonderful day. Blessings...Mary

Anonymous said...

Not only your mom will love this, me too~! haha :D

ahmok33 said...

Sonia,
i have plan to do once..coz this time i feel the taste not very good,maybe it's not suitable with cream..

i want to try without putting in frezer and test it overnight on room temperature ..

Little Corner of Mine said...

Must be really moist and yummy.

Simplyfood said...

Beautiful cake looks delicious.

ashsdelicacies.blogspot.ca said...

Great dish.....loved the step by step presentation...

PranisKitchen said...

sure mom is going to enjoy this wonderful cake .really delicious..sure will visit those bogs..

Pei-Lin said...

Mmmm ...! Yummy, tangy lemony butter cake!! Thanks for sharing! A Happy Belated Mother's Day to your mom, and you!! (You're not from Klang meh?)

3 hungry tummies said...

I just saw this at cikmanggis' blog too. She praised you on your wonderful recipe :)

tigerfish said...

Yup, poppy seeds aren't available in some countries :O

Swee San said...

I'm just curious, how come there's so many tiny holes on the top of the cake ?? for the glaze ?

Namitha said...

Love this cake...I love all sorts of lemon cales...hope you n your mom had a great mom's day :-)

Anonymous said...

Such a decadent cake. I am sure you mom will love it!

Passionate About Baking said...

Hi Sonia,
I've not seen blue poppy seeds before! I believe the addition of the poppy seeds do make the butter cake taste great! Thanks for sharing the recipe. I shall try add this to my "to bake" list! :)

Love2cook Malaysia said...

Owh WOW!!! This is truly a beautiful butter cake dear! I loved it...sure Ur Mum loved it too...;)

I'm bookmarking the recipe. ^___^

Fresh Local and Best said...

This is a beautiful lemon poppy cake! This is one of my favorites. It's nice that your family makes an effort make sure that no one is left out.

Bakericious said...

Sonia, after posted my comment on Fri night, I cant stop my itchy hands and I baked the cake immediately using your previous recipe cos only can find 2 lemons in the fridge and also poppy seeds prohabited in spore. the cake is yummy, the 6" cake left only 2 slices hee hee hee... I m going to post in my blog soon :)

Sonia ~ Nasi Lemak Lover said...

Dear all, my mom and sisters gave thumbs up to this cake, they just love it. I feel that this recipe is better than the old recipe, try to use this recipe next time, omit blue poppy seeds if you can't get it, but follow to this recipe.

Sharon, Thanks for provided all the links.

Bakericious, next time, try to use this recipe instead, this recipe taste even better.

Sonia ~ Nasi Lemak Lover said...

ahmok33, this is butter cake, don't store in the fridge, otherwise it will turn dry and hard. Just keep it in the normal room temp...

Bakericious said...

Sonia, the old recipe is very good liao. I wil try this recipe next time.

Anonymous said...

Hi Sonia,

Would like to try this recipe. Can I used 2 tsp of baking powder instead of double action powder? Will the cake be very sweet? Coz my family don't eat too sweet cake. How much sugar shall i reduced? Can I replaced the cake flour with plain flour? Sorry for a asking a lot of question. I just started to learn baking.

TIA
BabeIpoh

Sonia ~ Nasi Lemak Lover said...

Hi TIA, ya, you can use 2tsp baking powder instead, this cake is not really sweet, dont reduce the sugar, because the sour from the lemon will balance the sweetness of this cake. Happy trying!

Anonymous said...

Hi Sonia,

Thanks for your quick reply. Can i use plain flour to replace the cake flour? If I halves the recipe should I increase the flour to 175gm and omit the poppy seed? (refer to your first recipe - Lemon Butter Cake.)

BabeIpoh

Sonia ~ Nasi Lemak Lover said...

BabeIpoh, yes, you can, but cake flour will give more fine texture. Dont increase the flour if you want to halve the recipe, follow this new recipe. Hope this help!

Anonymous said...

hi,
wish to ask if i want to bake it as cupcake version can i do that? if yes the temp remains the same temp? n baking time?

thanks
elaine

Anonymous said...

Just found this wonderful page of Lemon Butter Cake. By the look at the ingredients, I believe this is a great Butter cake. By the way, can we get Poppy Seeds in Malaysia?

Jones said...
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grace said...

Where can i buy poppy seeds at kl?

foolsgal said...

Hi SONIA if I wan to use as cupcake with SMB can I omit the glaze? Will it taste ok ?

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