Lemon Poppy Seed Cake + Icing How-To

Ever come upward across a recipe that is therefore simple, as well as fifty-fifty though it's non from scratch, you lot know it's a keeper. Especially for when you lot demand something quick, but also demand it to last a chip extra special.  This lemon poppy seed cake is that type of recipe. I had never baked a box cake mixed alongside pudding before, but the improver of the vanilla pudding inward this recipe, plus the poppy seeds makes for a actually particular treat.




Add a Swiss meringue buttercream, as well as this cake won't disappoint.  Also every bit an addition, I've been practicing my decorating skills, inspired past times therefore many instagram bakers, including our friend Lyndsay of Coco Cake Land as well as Ellen of Milk as well as Water Baking Co. Had to orbit them a shout out out! Be certain to cheque them out! And cheque out the recipe below! Let us know if you lot endeavour it!



Lemon Poppy Seed Lemon Cake + Icing Video

This recipe is adapted from the dorsum of Watkins' Pure Lemon Extract box. It's true. Such a adept recipe! The master cake asks for lemon zest, which is nice, as well as mayhap adept for a casual loaf cake, but I similar to larn out it out for fancier cakes. Yields 2 - nine inch cakes. As an option, for this cake I add together i to a greater extent than layer, stealing a layer from our Lemon Wedge Cake recipe from final week.

1 box of super moist white cake mix (18.25 oz. or 517 g)
1 bundle of instant vanilla pudding (3.4 oz. or 96 g)
1 loving cup water
1/2 loving cup of vegetable oil
iii eggs
1//4 loving cup poppyseeds
1 tablespoon (15 ml) pure lemon extract
(Optional) plus i layer of Lemon Wedge Cake (see recipe here).

Mix all of the ingredients (see, therefore simple) inward a large bowl for 2 minutes or until blended. Pour into greased as well as floured cake pans. Bake at 350 degrees F. for forty minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool inward pans for nigh twenty minutes earlier removing them. Set Aside.

(Check out the Swiss meringue buttercream recipe later on the jump)!

Vanilla Swiss Meringue Icing
To brand this icing, you'll demand something that resembles a bain marie. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pot on the bottom to convey the H2O to a boil as well as a bowl that volition easily sit down atop of the pot, as well as something you're however able to grab. I made 2 batches of this icing to comprehend the entire cake plus the flowers.

Ingredients
v egg whites
1 loving cup (and 2 tablespoons) of white sugar
a pinch of tabular array salt
2 tsp. to 1 tablespoon vanilla (to taste)
1 pound (4 sticks) room temperature unsalted butter (cut into 1 tablespoon size pieces).

How to
Start the H2O to boil inward the pot. Once it comes to a boil, plow downward to simmer. In the bowl, add together the v egg whites, the carbohydrate as well as the salt. With the bowl placed atop of the pot, outset to shell the egg whites, dissolving all of the carbohydrate every bit you lot go. This takes only about iii minutes. Remove from heat. Continue to shell until peaks outset to shape inward the egg whites as well as when the bowl is cool to touch. This takes only about seven - 10 minutes.

Slowly outset to add together the butter, i tablespoon at a time, until it is good incorporated. Continue mixing until all the butter has been added. Add the vanilla at the end. Mix well. Separate the icing into 2 dissimilar bowls. One alongside a tertiary of a loving cup - which you'll add together xanthous nutrient colouring for the xanthous flowers, as well as and therefore larn out the residue white.

Icing How-To
Ice inward betwixt each layer of cake. Ice the cake (a sparse crumb coat) to start. Then transfer the icing into icing bags. To ice, cheque out the video below - it's a uncomplicated means to decorate a cake. For these flowers I used, the Wilton 1M as well as 2D tips for the larger flowers as well as the Cake Boss 193 as well as 18  tips for the smaller flowers as well as and therefore a smaller leafage tip for the leaves. If you lot haven't iced similar this before, exercise to outset on a plate, as well as inward no fourth dimension you'll last able to brand these similar a pro! (Seriously, I practiced for nigh v minutes). If you lot conduct hold the correct icing consistency (Swiss Meringue Buttercream is a game changer), it's pretty easy!

Happy decorating!

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