Poppy cake is found in the cuisines of different countries, and amateur culinary enthusiasts do not get tired with imagination to replenish the gastronomic treasury of the world with their own recipes. Let's consider some of the most interesting of them. Let's start with a simple one - “Tender sponge cake with poppy seeds”. It takes only an hour and a half to prepare. We grind four egg yolks with 50 g of white sugar in a large bowl. In another bowl with a mixer, beat the whites with the same amount of granulated sugar. In a third bowl, mix 100 g of flour, 130 g of dried poppy and a bag of vanilla sugar.
Carefully, in several stages, we transfer the proteins and the dry mixture into the bowl with the yolks, knead with a wooden spatula, add 100 grams of melted butter and mix again. We cover the biscuit mold with parchment paper, pour the dough into it, put it in the oven for 40-50 minutes at a temperature of 180 C. The readiness should be checked (as always) with a match: a wooden stick stuck in the dough should remain dry. Remove and cool poppy seed cake, then cut into 4 layers.
Now let's do the cream: 6 yolks are ground with 160 g of sugar and a bag of vanilla (you can add grated lemon zest). Boil half a liter of cream, pour them into the egg mixture with a thin stream. Put on a tiny fire and constantly interfere, by no means letting it boil. Transfer our poppy seed cake hot cream layer by layer. Leave for an hour at room temperature, and then refrigerate until morning. If desired, you can decorate the top with glaze cooked in a steam bath made of chocolate bar with butter.
Do not want to mess with the test
ohm? You can make poppy seed cake without flour. There are two recipes for such a pie - Japanese and For the Lazy. We take 8 tablespoons of crushed cheap bread crumbs or breadcrumbs. Two cups of poppy seeds are poured with milk in the amount of half a liter and put on fire, stirring until the mass thickens. Cool, then pass through the meat grinder twice. In the resulting slurry, you need to add the cookies and mix everything thoroughly. Then we take 8 eggs, separate the
squirrels, beat them in a strong foam with one and a half glasses of sugar. Rub the yolks with half a glass of sugar. Mix everything and put in the oven for an hour at 180 C. For decoration, as it should be lazy, we use
boiled condensed milk mixed with butter and crushed nuts.
But Japanese poppy seed cake, which is much more difficult to cook, is surprisingly tender. One would like to create a laudatory hokka poem in honor of him, but it would be more appropriate to bring his recipe. Grind 150 g of poppy seeds in a mortar (but it is also possible in a coffee grinder - it will be much faster). Pour boiling water so that the water covers the grains, leave for a quarter of an hour. We clean three apples
remove the core and rub on a coarse grater. Beat 120 g of butter, and then add three egg yolks one at a time. During this time, the poppy should already absorb all the water. Lightly strain it and add to the butter-egg mixture along with a tablespoon of honey and grated apples.
Now it remains only to add 3 tablespoons of semolina to the poppy seed cake, the same amount of powdered sugar, a spoon of vegetable oil and a bag of powder for cookies. We still have squirrels! We beat them with a mixer in hard foam and add to the dough in three passes, constantly carefully kneading the spoon from the bottom up. Pour into a baking dish and into the oven. Such a handsome man needs a particularly delicate cream: creamy or condensed milk will simply “hammer in” the delicate taste of cakes. The Japanese recommend layering the cake with whipped cream, and garnish the top with caramelized apple slices with sour jelly.