Towards the end of my maternity leave - and right after my baby was born - I developed the famous 'nesting instinct' and decided to sort out my kitchen cupboards. It's been really helpful because now I'm short of time I can find everything more easily - I also made a fair bit of space by throwing out packets of food I'd forgotten I'd bought that were long out of date!
I found a packet of poppy seeds - still in date - which I'd bought for a recipe ages ago and never used. I was expecting neighbours around the following afternoon to meet baby S and thought a lemon and poppy seed cake - lemon is commonly paired with poppy seeds for some reason - would be a nice easy one to make if I did it as a loaf cake.
I used this recipe from BBC Good Food which turned out really well - very light and fluffy and surprisingly moist. In the end the neighbours had to cancel and reschedule for the following week so I ended up eating most of this cake myself!
The mixture looks quite odd when you add the poppy seeds:
Much better when the other ingredients are in.
Before baking in the loaf tin:
The baked cake, cooling on a rack.
With the lemon glaze
Perfect with a cup of tea!
.I'm sharing this with CookBlogShare and Love Cake hosted by JibberJabberUK.
I'm sure I have a packet of poppy seeds in my kitchen cupboards somewhere as well! I must find them out because as you say lemon and poppy seeds is such a good combination.
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