Moist Orange Poppy Seed Recipe

by niq on Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:54 am

Hi all,

A friend of mine loves orange poppy seed cakes and has requested me to make one for her birthday later this week. I need help with a good recipe that makes a moist orange poppy seed cake.

Anyone got a good orange poppy seed cake recipe to share please?

Niq

by shimi on Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:06 am

Hi Niq, I've made this cake from Epicurious a few times and it's really nice. You don't have to serve it with the berries called for in the recipe; and just make half the quantity of syrup for soaking the cake. It's very light and moist!

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Orange-Poppy-Seed-Cake-with-Berries-and-Creme-Fraiche-11901

Oh and I cut down the sugar in the cake to 1 cup.

by niq on Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:34 pm

Thanks for the recipe shimi.

by applemint_jackie on Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:58 pm

I would like to enquire..what kind of poppy seed is this? just the ordinary type, which can get at kedai runcit at spice section? or any speciality type, which is only for baking?
thnx.

by shimi on Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:00 pm

Jackie it's the black poppy seed, although the colour is more blue-grey; can get at BWY/CT or any of the baking shops. The ones that are used for spice is the white poppy seed, Malays call it kas-kas; used in Indian cooking and some Malay dishes.

by Jo on Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:30 am

I got mine at the organic shop at Bangsar Village. It was labelled as Natural Poppy Sseds. I have tried the organic section at Jusco and Carrefour, but no luck. Guess you should be able to get this from more specialised organic shop.