Best Orange Poppy Seed Zucchini Cake Recipes

Easy Orange and Poppyseed Cake image

Provided by Tisme

Categories Dessert

Time 1h20m

Yield 8 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 11

1 large orange, roughly chopped
125 g butter, melted
1 1/2 cups almond meal
3/4 cup caster sugar
1/2 cup poppy seed
3 eggs
1 orange
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup white sugar
icing sugar, for dusting
pure cream, for serving

Steps:

Process the orange in a food processor until pureed. Add the remaining ingredients and process until smooth.
Pour mixture into a baking paper lined 20cm cake pan and bake at 180°C for 45-50 minutes or until golden and a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the centre of the cake. (The cake will not rise much).
Stand the cake for 5 minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack.
For sticky oranges: Peel the rind from orange into long straight segments & finely julienne rind.
Combine the sugar and water in a saucepan, stir over low heat until sugar dissolves, add orange rind and bring to the boil, simmering for 10 minutes until syrupy and orange rind is translucent.
Drizzle warm syrup over cake and decorate with sticky orange rind, serve thin slices dolloped with pure cream.

Lemon Zucchini Cake With Poppy Seed image

Provided by swizlo

Categories Dessert

Time 1h

Yield 12 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 10

Steps:

In a large bowl combine sugar, oil, eggs, lemon extract, poppy seed and mix well.
Stir in shredded zucchini.
Combine in another bowl, flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. mix well.
Gradually add this mixture to the zucchini mixture. Mix throughly.
Pour into greased 9x13 pan.
Bake 350 for 40-50 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean.
Add a lemon glaze for the topping - 1/2 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon lemon extract, 1 tablespoon water. In a saucepan bring to a boil, when cake is warm, brush with glaze.