Recipe | Lemon Poppy Seed Cake

Ingredients:                            Serves 20
2 cups of sugar
1 cup of vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 ½ teaspoons of vanilla extract
1 teaspoon of of lemon extract
2 tablespoons of poppy seeds
3 cups of all-purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoons of baking powder
1 ½ teaspoons of salt
1 ½ cups milk

Icing:
2 tablespoons of lemon juice
¾ cup of confectioners’ sugar

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit.  Grease and flour two loaf pans.  Combine sugar, oil, eggs, vanilla, and lemon extracts in a large bowl; mix well.  Stir in poppy seeds.

 

1. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt.  Add flour mixture and milk to sugar mixture alternately, mixing well after each addition.  Divide batter evenly between prepared pans.

 

1. Bake loaves for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.  Loosen edges from sides of pans.  Cool loaves in pans for 10 minutes.  Turn and cut on wire cooling racks.

 

1. For icing, blend lemon juice and confectioners’ sugar in a small bowl.  Drizzle over warm loaves.