Lemon poppy seed cake
Why do we always make cakes only for celebrations? They are needed more when you are not exactly in the pink. Gau had his first Tamil finals yesterday. Pretty bad as expected. After I got over the irritation of the the brat never hitting his books or practicing his writing, I decided to bake a cake. Inspired by Mich of Eat a piece of cake , I decided to explore Delia Smith's recipe . She had a lemon poppy seed cake in her website and I had 4 organic lemons waiting to be used for a whole week now. Match made in heaven but for a minor issue. The cream-of-wheatish (in Appearance) Indian poppy seeds (Gasa-Gasa) look nothing like their American Counterparts which are bluish-black colored spheres. They taste much better though, I don't know if it is the preparation or the poppy seeds themselves but I will take Gasagase Payasa or Kurma over Poppy seed muffins or sour cream cake. In this instance, I decided to use the seeds in the batter and leav...