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 among my favourite desserts, and it’s the proper dessert in the event you love lemon poppy seed muffins.

The inspiration for this cake got here after a good friend 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 fascinated with 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 have now 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 substances for this cake recipe are easy and pantry pleasant. Listed here are the objects you’ll need:

Lemon Poppy Seed Cake

• Moist Substances: Granulated Sugar, Lemon Zest, Unsalted Butter, Eggs, Vanilla Extract, Bitter Cream, Buttermilk and Lemon Juice
• Dry Substances: All Objective 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 substances could be discovered within the recipe card on the finish of this submit. Maintain scrolling for all the small print.

The way 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 big 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 substances in a big bowl and sift (or whisk) to mix.
6. Mix: Slowly add the flour combination to the moist substances and blend till nearly mixed.
7. Add: Add the remaining moist substances 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 picket 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 fully earlier than frosting it.

Cream Cheese Frosting

After the cake is completed baking and cooled, it’s time to make the cream cheese frosting. Easy, creamy, a little bit 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 (optionally available) and lemon juice.
3. Frost: Gently unfold the frosting over the cooled cake after which reduce and serve.

Maintain scrolling to the tip of the submit to the recipe card for the entire directions. The recipe could be saved or printed from there as nicely.

Ideas for Making the Finest Poppy Seed Lemon Cake

• Remember to use actual butter and no butter substitutes. It provides extra taste.
• You may assume that since this can be a cake, you need to use cake flour rather than the all objective flour however I wouldn’t suggest it. For this recipe, all objective 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 certain it’s room temperature for simple mixing.
• For the perfect lemon taste, we use a mix of freshly squeezed lemon juice and lemon zest. Just be sure you don’t use lemon juice from the bottle or lemon extract, in any other case the flavour will likely 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 substances at room temperature earlier than getting began helps with this.
• Likewise, utilizing room temperature cream cheese and butter will guarantee a easy 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.

The way to Know If Poppy Seeds are Nonetheless Good?

One of the best ways to inform in case your poppy seeds have gone dangerous is by scent and look. They’ll scent bitter and rancid. Poppy seeds also needs to not clump collectively in any respect. If they’re sticking collectively, then they’re in all probability moist which suggests they’re now not good.

Does a Glass Dish Require Extra Cooking Time Than Metallic?

A reader just lately requested if her cake pan that could be a glass dish requires extra cooking time than a steel dish does and because it’s such query I needed to say it right here.

Glass heats up slower however holds on to warmth longer, so you could require a little bit 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 ravishing bundt cake! The batter will slot in an ordinary 10 or 12 cup bundt pan. Remember to grease the bundt cake extraordinarily nicely. You’ll want to extend the baking time. Set the time for 60 minutes however begin checking it at 45 minutes.

I prefer to maintain the cream cheese frosting recipe the identical however simply skinny it out a little bit 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’ll be able to freeze Lemon Poppy Seed Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. In reality, cream cheese frosting is right 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 nicely and freeze. Thaw earlier than serving.

OR You’ll be able to 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 fully 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 every little thing that you just’d need it to be. Significantly – in the event you love lemon desserts, it’s essential do this cake!

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