Poppy Seed Cake

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/3 cup poppy seed
• 3/4 cup milk (rice milk works too)
• 185 g margarine
• 2 teaspoons vanilla essence
• 1 cup caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 cups self raising flour (self rising)

Recipe

• 1 grease a 14cm x 21cm loaf pan or an equivalent spring form round cake pan.
• 2 combine poppy seeds and milk in medium bowl. stand for 1 hour.
• 3 add butter, essence, sugar, eggs and sifted flour to poppy seed mixture.
• 4 beat on low speed with electric mixer until combined. then beat mix on medium speed for about three minutes (until a pale colour).
• 5 pour into prepared pan.
• 6 bake in moderate oven (180c) for approximately 1 hour (until middle is cooked).
• 7 stand for five minutes before turning onto a wire rack.
• 8 (english to american flour translations).
• 9 cake & pastry flour = soft flour
• 10 all-purpose flour = plain flour
• 11 bread flour = strong flour, hard flour
• 12 self-rising flour = self-raising flour
• 13 whole-wheat flour = wholemeal flour.