Desserts

Austrian Poppy Seed Cake

by Editorial Staff

Summary

Prep Time 30 mins
Cook Time 1 hr
Total Time 1 hr 30 mins
Course Baking
Cuisine European
Servings (Default: 1)

Ingredients

  • 6 egg (s), separated
  • 140 g suar
  • 250 g butter, soft
  • 60 g powdered suar
  • 250 g walnuts or hazelnuts, round
  • 250 g poppy seeds, round
  • 3 tablespoon orange liqueur, alternatively orange juice
  • 3 tablespoon apricot jam
  • Powdered sugar, for sprinkling
Austrian Poppy Seed Cake
Austrian Poppy Seed Cake

Instructions

  1. Separate the eggs.
  2. Beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff, pour in the sugar and keep beating until the snow is firm and shiny.
  3. Beat the butter with the powdered sugar until frothy. Stir in the egg yolks one at a time.
  4. Then add the nuts, poppy seeds and orange liqueur and fold in. Finally fold in the egg whites carefully and loosely.
  5. Pour the dough into a greased springform pan sprinkled with breadcrumbs and bake in the preheated oven at 175 degrees top / bottom heat for 55 to 60 minutes.
  6. Spread the jam on the cake while it is still warm. Let cool slightly, remove from the mold and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Editorial Staff

About Editorial Staff

The Boss Kitchen editorial staff oversees content review, fact-checking, and recipe verification across the site. Published articles pass through the editorial team before going live, ensuring ingredient lists, techniques, cooking times, and nutritional claims hold up in a home kitchen. The team coordinates contributions across the site writers, handles reader corrections, and maintains consistency in measurement conventions, safety guidance, and dietary labeling. Posts under this byline typically represent team-reviewed reference material, site announcements, or editorial roundups rather than individual-author features, and they are held to the same sourcing standards as bylined recipe and product coverage.

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