The Sweet Poppy Seeds And Cocoa
By: sunflowers8
Published: Sunday, March 6, 2011 - 8:16am

Ingredients




What You Need
150 grams of poppy seeds
200 grams of brown sugar
130 grams of butter (plus 10 grams for the mold)
125 grams flour
2 eggs
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons vanilla flavoring
100 milliliters semi-skimmed milk
1/2 grated rind of an orange
icing sugar (for garnish)

Preparation

1 Preheat the oven to 170°C. 2 Melt the butter and let cool. 3 Butter a 20 cm springform pan and sprinkle around the walls with a heaping tablespoon of poppy seeds and set aside. 4 Whip sugar and eggs and vanilla until the mixture becomes swollen. 5 Add milk and melted butter while continuing to beat. 6 In another bowl combine the flour, baking powder, cocoa and poppy seeds. 7 Pour the liquid mixture over dry ingredients and stir. 8 Pour into the prepared springform pan. 9 Bake for 40 minutes, that the toothpick test. 10 Let cool on a rack in the mold and baked gently raised. 11 Serve warm or cold sprinkled with icing sugar.