Saturday, 16 March 2013

Homemade Cake for Tea


This is a yuzu (instead of lemon) poppy seed cake with butter (real butter) icing. This type of cake with butter icing brings back memories of birthday cakes from the past. Icing was a treat and only on birthdays. I like the crunch of the poppy seeds when you bite into them. I enjoyed them with a cup of Earl Grey. Yummy!! My sweet temptation for today.

4 comments:

Ladytats said...

yum!!
I just looked up yuzu, to see it is a citrus fruit. I know lemons, oranges, grapefruit, and a few other citrus fruits. How does yuzu compare in taste?

Karen said...

A friend always makes poppy seed cake/bread for holidays and it is so very yummy. I'd like to try it with butter frosting now! Karen in OR

umintsuru said...

Hi Ladytats, I have not tasted a fresh yuzu fruit but I used the sweetened juice which is sold in tetra pack from the supermarket. I read that it tastes between a grapefruit x orange. It does have a distinct aromatic fragrance but it was not strong enough in the cake.

Butter icing makes all the difference, Karen.

Margarets designer cards said...

Looks yummy, poppy seed cake is lovely and I could just eat a piece of it.
Thanks for sharing it
Margaret