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German Poppy Seed Cake

by Editorial Staff

Summary

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

Ingredients

For the filling:

  • 0.25 liter ¼ milk
  • 1 packet custard powder, vanilla
  • 140 g suar
  • 200 g poppy seeds, round
  • 2 egg (s)

For the dough:

  • 300 g butter
  • 175 grams sugar
  • 1 packet vanilla sugar
  • 1 pinch (s) salt
  • 3 egg (s)
  • 1 packet custard powder, vanilla
  • 8 tablespoon milk
  • 400 g flour
  • 1 packet baking powder

Also:

  • some powdered sugar
German Poppy Seed Cake
German Poppy Seed Cake

Instructions

  1. For the filling, stir the milk, vanilla pudding powder and sugar until smooth. Add the ground poppy seeds. Bring to the boil while stirring and set aside to cool. Then stir in the eggs.
  2. Mix the butter with sugar, vanilla sugar and salt until frothy. Stir in one egg at a time. Mix the custard powder with the milk until smooth and add to the batter. Briefly stir in the flour and baking powder. Pour half of the dough into a well-greased and floured bundt cake pan. Put the poppy seed filling on top and then the rest of the batter.
  3. Bake in the preheated oven at 170 ° C top / bottom heat on the second rack from the bottom for about 60 minutes.
  4. After a short cooling time (approx. 5 minutes), turn the cake over, let it cool down completely and dust with powdered sugar before serving.
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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