Welcome Friends welcome back to the kitchen today we're going to do another
one of the cakes for two um this is a lemon poppy seed cake I
really like lemon in desserts and uh poppy seeds seem to go with lemon
everybody thinks seems to think so so in this bowl I've put some cake and pastry
flour in Canada it's known as cake and pastry if you're in the United States it
would just be cake pastry it would just be cake flour Cake And Pastry seems to
be a uniquely Canadian thing um if you live somewhere where it's a
combined Cake And Pastry flour let me know be good to know I've put in salt
baking powder and these are poppy seed and
I'll just give that a bit of a whisk not too much now into this bigger bowl
I've got some melted butter or mostly melted butter
and to that I'm going to add some sugar and again just give that a bit of a
whisk it doesn't take much to uh to get the
sugar dissolved in the melted butter you could try
um and use softened butter and and cream together the butter and sugar as you
would with a regular cake method and I do that sometimes but I never get
great results um
because there's not that much butter you're dealing with a quarter cup of
butter and it's hard to get it to cream properly so melting it is is a good
procedure that was an egg and whisk that egg in
now for the flavoring it's lemon and the problem with a smaller cake cake
for two you don't need much flavoring so resist the urge to over flavor and
we're going to use zest and juice and the
the bigger thing is don't put in too much juice
because it's really easy to add too much juice so there is the zest let me get
cutting board and knife
and I don't need too much juice so
I'm going to say one big squeeze and we'll whisk that in
okay now I was going to put in vanilla and as I was squeezing in the lemon
I thought um why not I'm going to try something I'm
going to try something completely unplanned
let me see if I can get in the fridge first in here
this is homemade limoncello uh I will endeavor to remember to put a
link to the video on our Channel where we make the limoncello I don't always
remember though so I'm going to put in the same amount of Limoncello as I would
have put in vanilla
and we'll just see what that brings to the cake
okay so whisk that in and start adding in the flour
a little bit at a time
that mixes up really easily there's not much to it at all now I've got a
six inch cake pan that I have buttered and put a parchment disc in the bottom
I've got the oven preheated to 325. and this is going to bake for about 25
minutes or so get all the batter into the pan
smooth it out
and into the oven
okay the cake is out it's still warm I'm gonna make a little bit of a glaze to go
on top and I've got some icing sugar here
don't beat yourself up about uh portions I don't have about that much icing sugar
and and I'm going to take what's left of the lemon that I tried to squeeze into
the cake and just get the rest of the juice out
of the lemon
um and put that in
give it a stir
I need a little bit more and you know what I'm thinking since I put the
limoncello in the cake
what would it be like to put it into the the drizzle that goes on top so
Just a Touch
this stuff has a really intense bright lemon flavor
I think it'll go really nicely
okay so we'll get the cake out here still hot the pan is still hot
get rid of the piece of parchment from the bottom turn it over
definitely at this point if you want to poke holes in the top
sounds like a great idea to me now we just drizzle this on top
whoa that's a tiny little KK friends hey bud it is a little lemon poppy seed cake
for two for two it looks like it's still for
about six yeah so that's okay
poppy seeds evenly distributed through nice job
I like lemon mm-hmm It's gotta go looks nice and moist
it is really moist that's a really good cake did you put a sauce on top like I
see little holes I should put something on top a little a
little lemony glaze a little lemony glaze that has a nice
lemony bite to it oh there you go so I I was making the cake and I said oh
we're gonna put lemon jello in instead of vanilla
put in the limoncello so that was the whole thing
no so there's there's lemon zest there's lemon juice
and then I threw in the limoncello okay so that was the only change in the
recipe I thought you like we're making a vanilla cake I'm gonna make it lemon no
no so that's pretty bumps up that bumps up the the lemon flavor and then I
I don't remember now I did so much today it's been a busy day it's been a busy
day did I put limoncello in the glaze I'm
pretty sure I put lemon jello in the place I won't know until I edit this
glaze when I edit this and write the recipe of
what I actually did today we'll know but until then I don't remember it's just a
mystery it's one of those days well I did I did uh it happens so
um limoncello pretty easy to make your own
um it's just lemon peels soaked in a high uh high
alcohol neutral grain spirit so this has been
like 150 proof and then you cut it down with with sugar
and water down to maybe you know 20 to 40 proof or 20 to 40 alcohol by volume
proof is a different thing um that's it this is a good cake cake
for two thanks for stopping by see you again soon