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- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
- Subject: Poppy Seed Tante Cake
- Message-ID: <67QTKU4@taronga.com>
- Organization: Taronga Park BBS
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 06:52:33 GMT
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- Poppy Seed Tante Cake
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- This is a white cake made only with egg whites, so it constrasts nicely
- with the black poppy seeds.
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- >From The Best of Food & Wine Collection
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- 1 vanilla bean
- 2/3 cup milk
- 2/3 cup poppy seeds
- 1 2/3 cups cake flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 sticks (6 ounces) butter, softened
- 1 1/4 cups superfine sugar
- 4 egg whites at room temperature
- Cream Cheese Icing
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- Slit the vanilla bean lengthwise and cut off the tips. In a small
- saucepan, scald the milk with the vanilla bean.
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- In a small bowl, combine the scalded milk, vanilla bean and poppy seeds.
- Let cool to room temperature. Scrape the inside of the vanilla bean into
- the milk mixture and discard the pod.
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- Preheat the oven to 325F. Butter a 9 by 2 inch round cake pan. Sift
- together the flour, baking powder and salt into a medium bowl.
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- In a large mixer bowl, beat the butter on high speed until light and
- fluffy, two minutes. Gradually add 1 cup of the sugar and continue to
- beat until very light and creamy, about 5 minutes.
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- Sift in one-third of the flour mixture; stir to combine. Beat in half
- of the milk-poppy seed mixture. Repeat 2 more times with the remaining
- dry ingredients and milk.
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- In a medium bowl, beat the egg whites on medium speed until frothy. Add
- a pinch of salt and continue beating until soft peaks form, about 2
- minutes. Beat in the remaining 1/4 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon at a time,
- increasing the speed to high before adding the last 2 teaspoons. Beat
- until the meringue is stiff and shiny, about 1 minute. Fold one-fourth
- of the meringue into the cake batter. Fold in the remaining meringue.
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- Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 50 to 55 minutes,
- or until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean. Let cool
- in the pan on a rack for 10 minutes. Remove the cake from the pan and
- let cool, right-side up, on the rack.
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- Using a long serrated knife, trim off the crusty top of the cake.
- Slice the cake horizontally into 3 even layers; set aside the middle
- layer to use as the top. Place the bottom layer on the inverted
- cake pan. Spread 3/4 cup of the Cream Cheese Icing over the bottom
- cake layer. Repeat with the second layer. Top the cake with the
- middle layer. Frost the sides of the cake with a thin layer of icing.
- Refrigerate for 10 minutes, then refrost the sides with enough Cream
- Cheese Icing to cover completely.
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- If desired, use a pastry bag fitted with a #2 star tip to pipe a
- decorative border of icing around the top edge of the cake.
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- Cream Cheese Icing
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- 11 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
- 2 sticks (8 ounces) butter, softened
- 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar, sifted
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- In a medium mixer bowl, beat the cream cheese until light and fluffy.
- With the mixer on low speed, gradually beat in the butter until well
- blended, about 4 minutes.
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- Scrape the seeds from the inside of the vanilla bean into the mixture;
- discard the pod. Sift in the confectioners' sugar and continue to beat
- on low speed, scraping the bowl frequetnly, until well blended, about
- 2 minutes. Refrigerate until ready to use, but do not let harden.
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