LEMON & POPPY SEED AVOCADO CAKE : Let’s go crazy with an avocado, lemon, flour.. And poppy seeds..
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Today we go a bit crazy with an avocado, mixed flours, poppy seed and lemon and make this gorgeous Lemon & Poppy Seed Avocado cake
I thought that the creaminess of the avocado would allow us to use no butter and less oil.. and yup, it worked.
Remember not to open the oven for first 25 minutes - else your cake will flop when you finally take it out of the oven.. mine did.. but it tasted great anyway.
As always full recipe with ingredients given below
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¼ cup wholemeal flour (or atta)
¼ cup plain flour (or maida)
¼ cup almond meal flour
¼ cup desiccated coconut
½ cup sugar
⅛ tsp or a big Pinch of salt
½ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp baking soda
½ tsp all spice powder
1 ½ tbsp poppy seeds
⅛ cup oil
2 tbsp thick yoghurt
Medium mashed avocado (about ½ cup)
1 heaped tsp of grated lemon rind
2 tbsp lemon juice
Note : If you do not have almond meal, you could dry roast almonds after taking skin off and grind to a powder. OR you could just use ½ cup plain flour and leave the almond meal out altogether.
Our three star ingredients.. Avocado, lemon and poppy seeds ..
Then we have three flours - ¼ cup each of whole meal flour, plain flour and almond meal flour
We also have ¼ cup of desiccated coconut,
Then ½ cup sugar, a pinch of salt, ½ tsp baking powder, ¼ tsp of baking soda ; ½ tsp all spice powder
Thick yoghurt, and regular cooking oil
LEMON CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
50 gms cream cheese
⅛ cup powdered sugar (or 1 heaped tbsp)
1 tbsp lemon juice
¼ tsp lemon zest
¼ tsp vanilla extract
Poppy seeds
Preheat oven to 180C. Line a 9” baking dish with parchment or baking paper
Mix all the dry ingredients together -so that’s ¼ cup each of whole meal and plain flour, ¼ cup almond flour and then add ¼ cup desiccated coconut and mix well.
Add in the ½ tsp baking powder, ¼ tsp baking soda, ½ cup sugar, ⅛ tsp salt, ½ tsp all spice powder and 1 ½ tbsp poppy seeds. Stir well to aerate the dry ingredients
In another bowl, add in the ½ cup mashed avocado, 2 tbsp yoghurt, 1 tsp lemon rind and 2 tbsp lemon juice and stir well to blend. Then add in the oil and mix till it’s all comes together
Fold the dry ingredients a little bit at a time into the wet ingredients
Place the cake dough into the prepared baking tin.. Try to flatten the top bit with the spoon and then whack the tin gently to remove any air bubbles
Bake at 180C for about 30 mins or till the top is light brown. Then cover the top with a sheet of baking paper and bake for a final 15 mins till done.
Turn your oven off but leave your cake covered in the oven for 5 mins.
Cool completely before adding the lemon cream icing
FOR THE CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
Allow the cheese to come to room temperature and then cream it till its soft and smooth
Add in the sugar and continue mixing till you have a smooth paste
Mix in the 1 tbsp lemon juice, and finally add in the vanilla extract, poppy seeds and lemon zest.
Continue mixing for a few minutes till you get a smooth lemon cheese frosting.
Wait don’t eat that yet, yummy as it is. Wait for the cake to cook and add this on.. It is totally worth the wait
Lemon and poppy seed cake
100g wholewheat couscous cover in juice from one large lemon
leave to soak for a while I left mine half hour
add enough boiling water to cover the couscous and cover
leave until all water is absorbed
I set it aside and then separated an egg
when the couscous is cool I added the egg yolk, lemon zest, 2 tb sweetener, tsp poppy seeds, vanilla flavour, 2 TB of fat free yogurt and mixed together
whisked the egg white until stiff and fold into the rest of the mixture
I divided the mixture between 5 silicone cases and topped with 10 g of almonds
baked in a preheated oven at 180 approx 15-17 mins
These tasted really nice, and would definitely bake again
This cake is 100 years old | Fantastic poppy seeds cake
Hello, everyone. I love to make and to eat this cake so much. Hope you'll love it too????
Ingredients:
1)
lukewarm milk 200ml (1 glass)
fresh yeast 50g (1.7oz)
sugar 3 Tbsp
flour 550g (4 and 3/8 cups)
margarine 250g (1 cup+2Tbsp)
2 eggs
pinch of salt
2)
ground poppy seeds 600g (4 and 1/4 cups)
sugar 400g (2 cups)
hot milk 300ml (1 and 1/2 glasses)
2 yolks
LIGHTEN UP - LEMON POPPYSEED CAKE Part 1
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This scrumptious reduced-fat cake is super easy to make and even quicker to disappear. The robust tang of the fresh lemons add to the delicate crunch of the poppy seeds. You can have your cake and eat it guilt-free too!