To make the lemon poppy seed buttercream, use an electric mixer to beat butter in a bowl until very pale. Add icing sugar, in batches, beating well after each addition. Add the lemon juice and poppy seeds.

Ingredients of Lemon-Poppy Seed Butter Cake

  1. It's 2-3/4 cups of sifted unbleached all-pupose flour.
  2. Prepare 2-1/4 teaspoons of baking powder.
  3. Prepare 1 teaspoon of baking soda.
  4. You need 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
  5. It's 1 cup of unsalted butter, at room temperature.
  6. You need 1-3/4 cups of granulated sugar.
  7. It's 4 of jumbo eggs, separated (large eggs OK).
  8. It's of Grated zest of 2 lemons.
  9. You need 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract.
  10. Prepare 1 cup of buttermilk.
  11. Prepare 1/3 cup of poppy seeds.
  12. Prepare of Confectioners sugar (optional).

Lemon-Poppy Seed Butter Cake step by step

  1. Pre-heat oven to 350F. Butter and flour a 10-inch tube pan, plain or fluted..
  2. Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt onto a sheet of waxed paper or into a bowl. Set aside..
  3. Beat butter in mixing bow on moderately high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes..
  4. Add granulated sugar in two additions, beating for 2 minutes after each addition..
  5. Add eggs yolks, one at a time, beating on high for 1 minute after each addition and scraping down the sides of bowl often with rubber spatula..
  6. Beat in lemon zest and vanilla..
  7. On low speed, beat in flour mixture in three additions and buttermilk in two, beginning and ending with the flour mixture..
  8. Stir in poppy seeds.
  9. Beat egg whites in a clean mixing bowl with clean beaters until foamy. Add pinch of salt; continue beating until just firm, not stiff, peaks form..
  10. Stir about 1/4 of the beaten egg whites into batter to lighten; fold in remaining whites carefully, but thoroughly..
  11. Pour batter into prepared pan; bake in lower third of oven until wooden pick inserted into cake is withdrawn clean and dry, about 55 minutes..
  12. Cool cake in pan 10 minutes. Turn out of pan onto wire rack to cool completely; if plain tube pan was used, invert cake onto second rack to cool right-side up..
  13. At serving time, sprinkle top of cake with confectioners sugar..

Lemon layer cake with lemon poppy seed buttercream…if you're a lemon lover I don't think you can read those words without salivating a little bit 🙂 Then take a look at it: I swear you can literally see that this cake is going to be delicious. Then go ahead and take a bite, the endorphin rush is off the charts. I'm going through a mini cake obsession lately here on tvfgi, and this. Line bottom of pan with parchment paper. In a large bowl, whisk together sugar and melted butter; add eggs, lemon zest and juice, and vanilla bean paste, whisking to combine.

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