Poppy Seed Cake with Crunchy Crumble
This dessert combines a soft dough, rich poppy seeds, and a golden streusel. For convenience, I used store-bought poppy seed filling from a shop or marketplace, but you can make it yourself using a poppy seed roll recipe.
- Total cooking time
- not set
- Number of servings
- 12
- Recipe difficulty
- 3 / 5
Ingredients
for 12 servings
- butter 120 g
- sugar 70-100 g
- eggs 2
- farmer's cheese 200 g
- baking powder 10 g
- flour 250-300 g
- fine oat flakes 50 g
- sugar 50 g
- butter 50 g
- flour 50 g
- poppy seed filling 500 g
Instructions
Preparing the dough
Step 1 of 13
Cream the butter and sugar.
Step 2 of 13
Add the eggs.
Step 3 of 13
Mix together.
Step 4 of 13
Add the farmer's cheese.
Step 5 of 13
Mix together.
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Stir in the flour and baking powder. Mix together.
Step 7 of 13
Line a baking pan (in my case 20x30 cm) with parchment paper. Spread the dough. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 20–25 minutes.
Preparing the streusel
Step 8 of 13
Combine the sugar and butter.
Step 9 of 13
Add the flakes and mix together.
Step 10 of 13
Stir in the flour and rub with your hands until it reaches a crumble consistency.
Step 11 of 13
Remove the baked base from the oven.
Step 12 of 13
Spread the poppy seed filling over the warm base.
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Top with streusel. Return to an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 10–15 minutes.