Birthday cake – Poppy and orange layer cake {sans gluten}
30… Ça pourrait être le nombre d’étage de ce birthday cake, le temps de cuisson, ou encore le temps que j’ai mis à écrire cet article, But no, c’est bel est bien l’âge que je fête aujourd’hui. Vous l’aurez compris, I have 30 ans, j’assume à moitié et c’est mon anniversaire ! Passer la trentaine est un cap que dis-je-c’est un cap, c’est une péninsule, et jusqu’à maintenant je m’étais psychologiquement arrêtée à 28 ans lorsqu’on me demandait mon âge (et peux-être vais-je encore continuer ?!), story of gaining a few years and staying in your twenties. Because yes, now I realize that I am a big girl (finished the carelessness of 20 ans !), I am no longer a student, I have Mini-Mademoiselle, 2 chats, a big… in short, we digress ! Finally, 30 years is a good age… but hey one five big birthday cake to comfort me and help me get through it won't hurt me !!!
If you knew how long I've been wanting to try a poppyseed cake recipe, since Methuselah actually … Anyway, it’s finally done ! And then I also asked Monsieur to have a layer cake mold for Christmas, and I hadn't used it yet (boo not good !!!). Neither one, nor two, so I jumped at the chance to put together my desires and prepare this poppy seed and orange layer cake. We know the classic combination of poppy and lemon well, but personally I also love orange and I wanted to offer you something that stands out a little (but not too much) from the ordinary !
For information, I used a round mold 17 cm in diameter.
Birthday cake – Poppy and orange layer cake {sans gluten}
Ingredients (pour 8-10 people)
- 250 g corn flour
- 110 g softened butter
- 100 g poppy seeds
- 4 eggs
- The juice and zest of an untreated orange
- 50 g cane sugar
- 1 c. to s. de baking powder
For the icing
- 260 g icing sugar
- 250 g softened butter
- 1 vanilla pod
- 30 ml of milk
Description
Preheat the oven to 180°.
Beat the eggs and sugar to obtain a frothy mixture.. Add the softened butter then the flour and the baking powder and mix. Finally add the poppy, zest and orange juice to the dough. Pour the mixture into the buttered and floured mold and place in the oven. 40 minutes. Unmold and let cool on a wire rack.
Prepare the icing, beat the softened butter and the sugar to obtain a smooth and slightly foamy mixture then add the milk and the grains of the scraped vanilla pod then beat again 30 second.
Cut the cake into three equal discs then start by spreading cream between each layer. Finish by icing the outside of the cake with the remaining cream using a spatula..
Decorate with a few strips of orange zest.
Happy birthday cake… 😉
Emilie
olivia
17.4.14what a great recipe !! I’ll keep it close 🙂
Beautiful is Good
17.4.14Happy birthday ! This cake is magnificent and what a great orange-poppy idea =) Beautiful day !
Julia (The Cookines)
17.4.14It is MAGNIFICENT !!!! I want some !!
argon
17.4.14He looks so yummy !!! we often see lemon and poppy, with orange, it changes a little ! merci !
Gwenaelle
17.4.14This cake is magnificent and I wish you a very happy birthday., I'm going to be in my 20s soon and I think it's going to be funny too ^^ it reminds me that I bought poppy seeds not long ago and I'll have to look for recipes to use it :) Kisses and good luck 🙂
aureliescooking
17.4.14Very beautiful cake ! And happy birthday then !
lydia
17.4.14Beautiful cake for a great birthday !! Kisses 🙂
Emilie
19.4.14Thank you very much Lydia !!!
monampersand
17.4.14Happy birthday !!!! Nice cake but watch out for the poppy…it gets stuck between your teeth 😉 In any case, I will keep the recipe aside but I will replace the orange with lemon or something else.
Emilie
19.4.14merciiii… yes especially in the photos 😉
Olivia
17.4.14Happy birthday Emilie
Your cake is beautiful, with that, if you don't get through your thirties in style I don't know what you need ! 😛
Emilie
19.4.14Thank you very much Olivia 😀
Sandrine | Strawberry Basil
17.4.14Very happy birthday Emilie, lots of good things for this new year. We really need to be able to set a date to see each other. (and why not to try this pretty cake !)
kiss girls
Emilie
19.4.14Thank you miss ! Yes yes yes we need to set a date to see each other !
Kisses
Royal Chill
17.4.14He's just awesome ! We wish you a great birthday, This is a perfect cake for the occasion ! Kisses
Emilie
19.4.14Thank you very much girls, you are adorable 🙂
Laurence
18.4.14He is SUPERB ! Divine I'm sure ( me too before I made my poppy seed cake, I dreamed of him without daring to tackle it ! ) with orange and corn flour : YUM, quoi !
I smiled reading your paragraph about thirty : I also stopped at 28 because once Minipouce was born, Of course I became a mother and my life changed, but I thought the fait accompli ( and well accomplished ! ) and stop time like this 😉 But no … NOW, I take it very well and am proud to celebrate my 34 as this year ! As long as it lasts and white hair doesn't happen too quickly ! LOL.
Happy belated birthday then … because yes, I imagine the cake is devoured and the birthday is over !
Kisses **
Emilie
19.4.14Yes it’s true that this cake was good but not vegan (no problem, there are plenty more to come !) !
It's true that time doesn't stop, but I pass this milestone serenely because I am a woman and a fulfilled mother… yes white hair and wrinkles too 😉
thank you so much my beautiful (I posted on my birthday !).
Kisses
Marie / 100% Vegetal
18.4.14Oh, this cake is sublime ! The orange-poppy combination really appeals to me and the result with the corn flour looks really good (I imagine its little taste, Yum !)
Emilie
19.4.14Thank you very much Marie for your compliments ^-^ yes it was delicious !
Gustave and Léontine
18.4.14This cake is beautiful and looks so good.. In addition, it is gluten-free, a godsend for me who is intolerant.!
I'll keep this great recipe on hand.. Happy birthday
Emilie
19.4.14Cool, I am delighted to be able to please everyone !
Thank you very much Gustave and Léontine 😉
Safrangourmand
18.4.14Nice recipe, That sounds awesome… Happy birthday !!! Kisses
Emilie
19.4.14Thank you very much miss ! Kisses
Polina
18.4.14With you, everything suggests that life without gluten is more beautiful 😉 !
Emilie
19.4.14Oh yeah, or at least she is no less beautiful !!!
Clara
18.4.14Mmh that looks delicious, It makes me hungry *_*
It’s also very pretty and my dad loves poppy seeds.!
Emilie
19.4.14Thank you very much Clara ^-^
BoopCook
18.4.14he looks sooo GOOD
Emilie
19.4.14Oh yeah
patchcath
19.4.14magnificent with these regular floors
The fox and the grapes
19.4.14Happy birthday ! 30 years it’s true that it’s a milestone, but if it is difficult to pass I might as well tell you that it is only one year older than 29 ans 😉
Your cake makes me salivate, I love the orange poppy combination !
Thank you for this delicious sharing,
Andrea
Emilie
19.4.14It’s true that I didn’t wake up any different that day 😉
Thank you very much Andrea, glad you like it !
Claire Le Mais
20.4.14Mhhhh that looks so good, too bad I don't have an oven to test this!
Céline My market gardener in a saucepan
20.4.14I'm a little late to wish you a great birthday!! I would make it my birthday cake too: it is very very appetizing!!
Emilie
22.4.14Thank you Miss Céline 😉
Valérie I♥Cakes
21.4.14How I understand you, I too am celebrating my 30 years this year, in July, and I'm not looking forward to it at all ! During our twenties we tell ourselves that 30 years we will feel serious and everything but that's not my case at all 😉 In any case you have a nice way to pass this milestone with a beautiful cake, I love citrus-poppy combinations.
Emilie
22.4.14Lol !!! Thank you very much Valérie for your little word 😉 And good luck for July !!!
Amélie-Marie
22.4.14great recipe ! I love poppyseed cakes, but I would never have thought of this combination (sans gluten and prime). Thank you for this discovery and these tempting photos. :p !
Emilie
22.4.14Thank you very much for your compliments, it’s true that the combination is great and with corn flour…yummy !
Lamirose
22.4.14Original recipe and beautiful cake…I'm keeping it to test :)
Emilie
22.4.14Thank you Lamirose, you tell me about it !
oumbil
22.4.14Bonjour, I have 5 years older than you, when someone asks me my age I tend to say 30 🙂 but hey ! Time flies, we don't realize, in short your cake is original, I will test.
See you soon.
Emilie
22.4.14Lol ! Yes it’s true that time flies ! But personally I will also stop at 30 😉
Fanny
23.4.14This cake looks delicious !!!! I will try it in a simple version without occias icing’ I'm sure I'm going to enjoy it !!! Your recipes are always so cool, girls., I love it 🙂
Kisses
Fanny
Emilie
23.4.14Thank you Fanny ! But you will see there are plenty of vegan layer cakes on the program for the next few weeks 😉
Kisses !
Miss Pat'
27.4.14This cake is beautiful for your birthday. 30 ans, and yes, an age group that rhymes with construction, consolidation too… maturity… ? Finally, 30 years also rhymes with games, with joy, with creativity and LOVE.
I kiss you and wish you very, very good things for the future.. See you soon on your blog which I love 😉
Heu… However, I'm a bit ashamed, I'm late on a lot of posts. !!!
Emilie
28.4.14Thank you very much Pat, your little word touches me a lot ^-^
Hibiscus
11.6.16Bonjour,
I tried your recipe today for 30 years of a friend. I regularly follow your recipes and enjoy them, First of all, to congratulate you for your creativity and inventiveness ! I love your recipes and the way you present them. !
Also, if I allow myself to react today it is by surprise.
I followed your recipe to the letter and the gram and I am surprised to see my cake which did not rise by a millimeter. What baking powder do you use ? Personally, I use Dr's baking powder. Oetker and I've never had a problem with it until now. A second surprise : the icing. THE 30 milk cl are they correct ? I put it on at first but, seeing that they did not adhere to the butter-icing sugar-vanilla mass I removed almost all. And the final icing really doesn't look good (bon, This is the first time I've made one with butter so maybe I lack experience). Please give me your additional advice on this recipe as I would love to make it again if possible. !
Good luck and thank you for your blog ! 🙂
Emilie
21.6.16Thank you very much Myriam for this message 😉
I don't really know what to say to all this because the proportions are just right for this recipe.. Maybe the butter and sugar mixture was too cold, I do not see anything else, Sorry !