Lemon Poppy Seed Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting [+Video]

This Lemon Poppy Seed Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is comfortable, moist & deliciously buttery with a contemporary lemon taste. Dotted with poppy seeds & topped with cream cheese frosting – it’s the proper dessert for lemon lovers!

From Poppy Seed Muffins to Cake!

It’s a comfortable, buttery, completely moist lemon cake that’s dotted with poppy seeds and topped with cream cheese frosting. It’s one in every of my favourite muffins, and it’s the proper dessert in case you love lemon poppy seed muffins.

The inspiration for this cake got here after a buddy gifted us with a poppy seed roll. It was a yeast bread with a swirl of poppy seed filling, and completely scrumptious. As I used to be having a slice with a thick slather of butter, it obtained me interested by poppy seed recipes and I noticed I hadn’t made any in a really very long time.

So – this lemon poppy seed cake was born.

We now have a complete video of precisely learn how to make it, so test it out…

What Do You Have to Make Lemon Poppy Seed Cake?

The components for this cake recipe are easy and pantry pleasant. Listed below are the objects you have to:

Lemon Poppy Seed Cake

• Moist Components: Granulated Sugar, Lemon Zest, Unsalted Butter, Eggs, Vanilla Extract, Bitter Cream, Buttermilk and Lemon Juice
• Dry Components: All Function Flour, Cornstarch, Baking Powder, Baking Soda, Salt and Poppy Seeds

Cream Cheese Frosting

• Cream Cheese
• Unsalted Butter
• Powdered Sugar
• Lemon Juice

The measurements of every components will be discovered within the recipe card on the finish of this put up. Maintain scrolling for all the main points.

Easy methods to Make Poppy Seed Lemon Cake

Poppy Seed Lemon Cake

1. Prep: Preheat oven and grease a 9×13 baking pan.
2. Activate: Place the sugar and lemon zest in a small bowl and rub along with your fingers to activate the oils within the lemon zest.
3. Beat: Add the butter and sugar (with lemon zest) to the massive bowl of a stand mixer with a paddle attachment and beat collectively till fluffy scraping down the edges as wanted.
4. Combine: Add within the eggs one after the other after which the vanilla and blend till mixed.
5. Sift: Place all of the dry components in a big bowl and sift (or whisk) to mix.
6. Mix: Slowly add the flour combination to the moist components and blend till virtually mixed.
7. Add: Add the remaining moist components and stir till simply mixed.
8. Fold: Sprinkle the poppy seeds over the batter and fold them into the batter utilizing a rubber spatula or wood spoon.
9. Bake: Pour the batter into the ready baking dish and bake as directed or till a toothpick inserted in the course of the cake comes out clear.
10. Cool: Let the cake cool utterly earlier than frosting it.

Cream Cheese Frosting

After the cake is finished baking and cooled, it’s time to make the cream cheese frosting. Easy, creamy, just a little tangy, and the proper pairing for this lemon cake.

1. Beat: Add the butter and cream cheese to a bowl and beat till mixed.
2. Add: Slowly combine within the powdered sugar and at last the vanilla (non-compulsory) and lemon juice.
3. Frost: Gently unfold the frosting over the cooled cake after which lower and serve.

Maintain scrolling to the top of the put up to the recipe card for the whole directions. The recipe will be saved or printed from there as effectively.

Ideas for Making the Finest Poppy Seed Lemon Cake

• Be sure you use actual butter and no butter substitutes. It provides extra taste.
• You may assume that since it is a cake, you need to use cake flour rather than the all goal flour however I wouldn’t suggest it. For this recipe, all goal flour works higher.
• To maintain the cake good and moist, we use bitter cream as a result of it makes the cake crumb oh so comfortable and completely moist. Simply be sure it’s room temperature for straightforward mixing.
• For the most effective lemon taste, we use a mixture of freshly squeezed lemon juice and lemon zest. Just remember to don’t use lemon juice from the bottle or lemon extract, in any other case the flavour might be too bitter.
• Watch out to not over combine your cake batter or else your selfmade lemon cake can find yourself dense. Having all of the components at room temperature earlier than getting began helps with this.
• Likewise, utilizing room temperature cream cheese and butter will guarantee a clean and creamy texture within the frosting. We don’t need a lumpy frosting!
• Place the baked cake within the fridge or freezer in order that it’s extra agency for simpler frosting.

Easy methods to Know If Poppy Seeds are Nonetheless Good?

One of the simplest ways to inform in case your poppy seeds have gone unhealthy is by scent and look. They may scent bitter and rancid. Poppy seeds also needs to not clump collectively in any respect. If they’re sticking collectively, then they’re most likely moist which implies they’re not good.

Does a Glass Dish Require Extra Cooking Time Than Metallic?

A reader not too long ago requested if her cake pan that may be a glass dish requires extra cooking time than a metallic dish does and because it’s such a very good query I wished to say it right here.

Glass heats up slower however holds on to warmth longer, so you might require just a little extra baking time. To assist us not over bake this cake we prefer to open the oven on the finish and let the glass dish cake relaxation for as much as 4 minutes extra earlier than eradicating it from the oven to chill.

Can This Cake Be Made in a Bundt Pan?

Sure, this makes a phenomenal bundt cake! The batter will slot in a regular 10 or 12 cup bundt pan. Be sure you grease the bundt cake extraordinarily effectively. You’ll want to extend the baking time. Set the time for 60 minutes however begin checking it at 45 minutes.

I prefer to hold the cream cheese frosting recipe the identical however simply skinny it out just a little with milk or heavy cream in order that I can drizzle it excessive of the bundt cake.

Can You Freeze Poppy Seed Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting?

You possibly can freeze Lemon Poppy Seed Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. The truth is, cream cheese frosting is good for freezing. It’s sturdy, with loads of fats, and it will do higher within the freezer than a extra delicate meringue-based icing. Simply wrap the cake effectively and freeze. Thaw earlier than serving.

OR You possibly can freeze the cake earlier than it’s frosted. Wrap your cooled cake in plastic wrap. Then wrap in tin foil or place in a plastic freezer bag and take away the air. Thaw the cake utterly after which frost.  

I introduced this lemon poppy seed cake with cream cheese frosting over to a household dinner, and there wasn’t even a tiny sliver left over. It’s buttery, moist, stuffed with contemporary lemon taste, and the cream cheese frosting is all the pieces that you simply’d need it to be. Critically – in case you love lemon desserts, it’s worthwhile to do this cake!

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