You are right; yes I made lemon mint poppy seed cake. I have seen lemonade with mint flavor even lemon sorbet with mint in it. Also a lemon poppy seed cake however, lemon mint poppy seed cake is rare. I haven’t seen any with my Google search. I was thinking of making them for long time, however most of lemon poppy seed cake recipes contain 6-7 egg yolks. With diabetes in our family consuming this much egg yolk is out of question, further I don’t like too much yolky flavor in my cake. Chocolate I like it but I am not a chocoholic. I can live without chocolate too. So there was going to be no chocolate in my cake.
During my grocery shopping I bought some lemon thinking of making the cake, if I am not able to make it I will make lemonade that was my decision. Usually we buy lime, this time I bought lemon. As usual I asked hubby “can I make some cake with lemon, mint and poppy seed”.He told okay you can do it, but to make sure that there is not overly mint flavor as well as too much poppy seed in the cake. After getting the green signal, I started looking for recipes. I looked at a lot of them and finally settled with here and here. I didn’t strictly follow the two recipes and made my own changes such as added 1 tablespoon of fresh mint and two tablespoon of toasted poppy seeds. Cake came out great and even tasted like pound cake and moist, puffy and beautiful black dots from the poppy seeds. I didn’t use any glaze, if you want feel free to use lemon glaze. I felt that it will an overdose of lemon and will increase sugar content of the cake. I dusted scantly with powdered sugar on the top of the cake. I used heavy whipping cream, however you can substitute with yogurt. This is real lemony minty poppy cake with perfect balance between tanginess of lemon and sweetness along with fragrance of mint. Try at least once you will became its fan sure. Here is the recipe.
What you need
All-purpose flour: 1 ½ cup
Whole wheat flour: ½ cup
Sugar: 1 cup
Oil; ¼ cup (I used canola oil, use olive or any vegetable oil)
Egg: 3 no (I used 2 whole egg and one egg white)
Vanilla extract: 1 teaspoon
Baking powder: 1 teaspoon (I used aluminum free one)
Baking soda: ¼ teaspoon
Salt: ¼ teaspoon
Poppy seeds: 2 tablespoon (Lightly toasted)
Heavy whipping cream: ½ cup
Lemon juice: ¼ cup ( Two lemon)
Zest of Lemon: 1 tablespoon ( I used 3 lemon)
Fresh Mint: 1 tablespoon (Finely chopped)
How I made
Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease 9 inch cake pan with cooking spray and dust with flour . Line the bottom with parchment paper and keep aside.
In a large bowl sift together all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, baking soda, baking powder, ground and salt. Add poppy seeds and mix everything and Keep aside.
In small bowl mix vanilla and lemon zest and lemon juice and keep aside.
Beat heavy whipping cream in a large bowl with electric mixer on high speed until it form shiny peaks this take about 5 minutes and keep aside.
In another bowl beat eggs, egg whites,oil and sugar with an electric mixer on high speed until thickened and pale, about 5 minutes.
Gently fold in egg mixture into whip cream using wooden/rubber spatula and keep aside.
To this gradually fold the dry ingredients with a wooden/rubber spatula, a third at a time, alternating with 2 additions of the lemon juice.
Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan and smoothen the tops with a spatula.
Bake for 50 minutes or until skewer comes out clean.
Cool the cake in the pan for 5 minutes and remove it and cool in the wire rack for another 1 hour.
(If you want glaze make it like this.
To prepare glaze: Sift ¾ cup confectioners’ sugar into a small bowl; mix with lemon juice and water to create a thin glaze. Poke 1-inch-deep holes all over the cake with a skewer. Coat the warm cake with the glaze using a pastry brush. Let cool completely. To serve, set the cake on a serving plate and dust with confectioners’ sugar)
I didn’t prepare the glaze; I served with dusting the cake with powdered sugar.
Preparation time: 55 minutes
Serving: 12 serving
Verdict: Yummy. Keeper recipe
Will you make it again: I will
Linking to Blogger's secret ingredient; Lemon hosted by Heather of Girlichef
This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Karen says
What a great combination of flavors - glad it was a keeper!
girlichef says
Hi Swathi! This sounds so delicious, such an usual combination...yet it seems so perfect when you think about it. I like mint in my lemonade, so why not!? I would definitely love to try this. Thank you for sharing it with BSI:Lemons this week 🙂
(ps...could you send me an email with a picture of the cake attached that I could use in the roundup? I am unable to pull one from your post. Thanks so much! girlichef at yahoo dot com)
Sharmilee! :) says
New to me soft and perfect it ahs come out
Akshay says
The Incredients for making South Indian recipes is very nice. The process is amazing. There are lots of South Indian Recipes in indianrecipes.co.in
Rosa's Yummy Yums says
It is a great idea to add mint! That cake looks delicious and so soft.
Cheers,
Rosa
M D says
Hey Swathi, ur Lemony Mint Poppy cake is leaving me with temptations to grab some off this screen! Looking so damn good!
Ivy says
Reading the first lines of your post I imagine a savory cake with lemon, poppy seeds and mint. I would never have thought that this would be a sweet cake. I would really love to try it.
Sook says
Ooh I think lemon and poppy seeds are perfect together. These look wonderful!
GayathriRaj says
hey thats very awesome one...really perfect and good...
Priti says
Swathi this is so new to me...wow what combo..loved it
Life is beautiful!!! says
The pictures just look awesome. I wish I am there to taste it 🙂
Abhilash Pillai says
I always wonder how to find such names. 🙂
Lemon minty poppy cake... I never heard this name before.
Looks delicious...
SathyaSridhar says
Hmm,,,cake looks perfect dear perfectly baked sure it will taste very good with lemon n poppy seeds flavour,,i tried lemon n poppy seeds muffin dear i will bake ur version of cake soon.
Panchpakwan says
Very uniqe cake Swathi..
Looks yummy.
Sushma Mallya says
Thats a very unusual combo but looks superb...got to try this one,thanks for sharing it swathi
Hamaree Rasoi says
'Poppy seeds' very interesting ingredient indeed!! Looks delicious
Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi
Premalatha Aravindhan says
perfect cakes.using poppy seeds too gud...
shahana says
Looks so perfect! Yumyum..
I'm a Home Chef !!! says
very innovative! cake looks so spongy!
Rachana Kothari says
What a flavourful and delicious cake, perfect with a cup of black coffee 🙂
Faith says
What a beautiful cake! The flavors of mint and lemon are so refreshing, I bet they're fantastic together in this cake!
Jagruti જાગૃતિ says
yummy yummy cake..just saw one recipe with mint, now yours..perfect for summer !! looks tempting!!
Priya says
WOww wat a flavourful cake, looks gorgeous and awesome Swathi..
SpicyTasty says
wow!! wonderful clicks. looks so delicious. Thanks for sharing Swathi!!
Ameya says
Lemon cake is perfect for a summer dessert! Looks great!
Suman Singh says
WOW...beautiful looking cake...haven't used poppy seeeds in my baking yet...would love to try this...looks del-ish!
Sanyukta Gour(Bayes) says
lovely clicks...awesome recipe...looks delcious..
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Jay says
looks absolutely mouth watering...beautiful clicks swathy.
Subhashini says
Perfect one
Nithya says
This is so new to me.. Looks really good 🙂
Asha says
Addition of Mint is wonderful, love Lemony Poppy seeds cake. Looks delicious.