Orange and poppy seed bundt cake with brown butter glaze

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Orange and poppy seed bundt cake with brown butter glaze

This bundt can is no less than fantastic. Delicious moist crumb, a filling made from graham crackers and poppy seeds and a magical glaze made with brown butter.

Prep Time30 mins

Cook Time1 hr 15 mins

Total Time1 hr 45 mins

Course: Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: American

Keyword: brown butter, bundt, cake, orange, poppy seeds

Servings: pieces

Calories: 445kcal

Author: Sune Trudslev

Ingredients

Poppy seed filling

50 g sugar
80 g milk
15 g butter
70 g dark poppy seeds
60 g graham crackers about 4 crackers

The batter

350 g cake flour
1½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp table salt
¼ tsp baking soda
225 g cream cheese
225 gram butter
210 gram sugar
70 gram brown sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp orange zest about 2 oranges

Brown butter glaze

1 tbsp dark poppy seeds
55 g butter
1 tbsp milk
180 g confectioner's sugar
1 tsp orange zest about ½ orange
1 tbsp orange juice

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

Make the filling

Whisk sugar and milk together in a small sauce pan and bring to the boil
Take off the heat and add the butter and stir
In a mortar or a spice grinder crush the poppy seeds to a moist powder. Stir into the milk.
Crush the graham crackers and add to the mixture and stir. Leave until needed.

Make the cake

Heat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas mark 4 (no fan assist).
Spray your bundt pan with a baking spray or butter it with softened butter.
Sift flour into the pan. Make sure you get every single nook and cranny. Turn the pan upside down and tap it lightly against the counter to remove excess flour.
Put flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl and mix it with a whisk.
In your stand mixer, cream cream cheese, sugar, brown sugar and butter until it is light and fluffy.
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Scrape the sides and add vanilla extract and orange zest and mix until it is all combined.
Add the flour to the cream cheese mixture in batches of two. Mix about 10 seconds efter each addition. At the end scrape the sides and mix 5 seconds more.
Pour half the better into the pan. Use a wetted spatula to even the top of the dough.
Add the poppy seed filling on top of the dough. Leave about ¾ inch room to the edge.
Pour the rest of the dough on top and tap the pan against the counter to remove air bubbles.
Bake for an hour or until a tooth pick comes out cleanly when inserted into the middle of the cake.
When done, take out of the oven to cool on a wire rack for fifteen minutes in the pan. Then invert the pan onto the rack. Leave to cool completely.

Make the glaze

Put a small sauce pan onto medium heat and let it get warm.
Add poppy seeds to the pan and let med toast for about a minute with constant agitation. Pour the toasted sesame seeds into a small bowl.
Put the pan back on the heat and melt the butter. Let it brown for about 8-10 minutes. Swil it around so that it doesn't burn. Pour the butter into a bowl through a fine mesh strainer to avoid the sediment.
Add confectioner's sugar, orange zest, orange juice and milk to the butter. Mix until you have a completely homogeneous mixture, then stir in the toasted poppy seeds.
Wokring quickly, pour the glaze over the cake and let it slide down the sides.
Let the glaze get hard before you serve the cake. It can stay nice and moist for a few days if it's wrapped in foil or plastic wrap.

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