Healthier Hungarian Poppy Seed Cake
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Yield: 2
 
A healthier version of the authentic Hungarian poppy seed cake.
Ingredients
Syrup
  • 2 cups pure cane sugar
  • 1½ cups water
  • 1 organic apple, peeled and diced
  • ½ cup raisins
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 3 strips organic lemon peel
  • ¾ lb. ground poppy seeds
Dough
  • 6½ cups unbleached all-purpose flour
  • ½ cup pure cane sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 cups coconut oil
  • 3¼ teaspoons yeast
  • 1 cup warm organic milk
  • 1 egg
Instructions
For the syrup
  1. Add sugar, water, apple, raisins, cinnamon, and lemon peel to a saucepan and cook until syrup.
  2. Stir in the poppy seeds, a fourth of the pound at a time. Stir until smooth and thick enough to spread. Cool.
For the Dough
  1. Combine dry ingredients in a bowl. Cube the butter, if using, and cut it into the dry ingredients until it resembles small peas.
  2. In small bowl, sprinkle the yeast over the warm milk and add to the dry ingredients, and knead until the dough comes together.
  3. Divide the dough in half and roll it out into a rectangle. Spread the syrup on the dough in an even layer, and roll the dough (not tightly) lengthwise. Beat the egg and brush it on the top of the cake roll. Let the egg wash dry(about 15 minutes) and repeat 3 more times. This counts as the rising time.
  4. Bake at 375° for about 45 minutes.
Notes
The coconut oil should not be in liquid form, nor should it be rock hard. It should be the consistency of cold butter.
: 11079 : 597g : 399g : 160g : 1325g : 588g : 2695mg : 102g : 168g : 206mg
Recipe by Natural Chow at http://naturalchow.com/2013/12/authentic-hungarian-poppy-seed-cake/