garden peas and poppy seed dessert cake
This garden cake is just perfect for tea time. It is different, wholesome, and adds just the correct amount of sweetness. The surprising flavor will have you picking through your garden to see what else you can dig up. As a mother of 6 and wife to a husband I adore, I can honestly say this cake is family approved. Slice yourself a piece!
prep time
10 Min
cook time
30 Min
method
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yield
1 cake
Ingredients
- CAKE
- 1 3/4 cups ultragrain flour
- 1 1/2 cups dark brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 tablespoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup peas, depodded (substitute with a can of peas, rinsed thoroughly)
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 tablespoon dark molasses
- 1 tablespoon madgascar vanilla
- 1 - egg
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon clove
- 2 tablespoons poppy seeds
- 5 - drops of green food coloring
- TOPPING
- - poppy seeds
- - turbinado sugar
- GLAZE
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 2 tablespoons vanilla
- 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
- 1 tablespoon orange juice
- - water to make glaze
How To Make garden peas and poppy seed dessert cake
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Step 1In a food processor, blend peas, milk, vanilla, egg, oil, molasses, and food coloring. Blend completely. Add more green if you need. You can also blend blue and yellow drops to make green. More blue than yellow.
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Step 2In a mixing bowl, add spices, poppy seeds, flour, sugar, salt, and baking soda/powder. Mix with a fork until well combined.
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Step 3Pour processor contents into dry ingredients. Beat for about 3 minutes.
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Step 4Pour into a circular baking pan sprayed with Baker's Joy. Sprinkle toppings evenly.
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Step 5Bake at 325F until toothpick comes out clean.
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Step 6Wait 5 minutes before taking out of pan. Invert to a plate, then to serving dish to ensure the original side is up.
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Step 7In a large measuring cup, make the glaze. After adding all ingredients. You make or may not need to add water. Add a few drops at a time, and stir.
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Step 8Pour over cake. Enjoy.
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