Poppy Cake With Vanilla Custard

• 5/8 cup oil grape seeds, for dough
• 1 cup white granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 9/16 cup whole milk
• 9/16 cup poppy seeds ground
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 egg yolks for filing
• 5/8 cup whole milk
• 7 15/16 tablespoons white sugar powdered
• 4 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 vanilla pod
• 2 5/16 cups mascarpone
• 4 tablespoons poppy seeds for garnish
• 2 1/2 ounces marzipan
• 1 1/4 teaspoons food coloring red, in a tube

1. Mix the oil with sugar
2. Stir in yolks
3. Add milk
4. Stir in sifted dry ingredients
5. Add ground poppy seeds, if the dough is thick, pour a little milk
6. Whisk the egg whites and slowly stir in rigid foam
7. Divide in half and pour into 2 greased and floured round cake molds
8. Place into the pre-heated oven. Bake at 180 u0b0C for 20 minutes, then at 160 u0b0C for 10-15 minutes.
9. Vanilla custard:
10. Mix the milk with sugar, lightly boil, stirring to dissolve sugar
11. Beat yolks in a bowl, then pour the milk with constant whipping.
12. Cook over medium heat 70 to 75 u0b0C with stirring until the mixture thickens. If the mixture is not thick, stir in flour. Thickening may take about 10 minutes. Cool to room temperature.
13. Beat mascarpone and gradually add the pudding, whisking all the time. Add the vanilla extract and mix.
14. Apply a cream on the first baked dough. If the second dough is higher than the first, cut it also in half. Spread the cream on the other baked dough. Cover with the third dough and spread the cream over all cake.
15. Garnish with poppy and flowers from marzipan
16. Marzipan poppy flowers
17. Model the marzipan slices, join 6 petals per flower. Reinforce the reverse of flowers with marzipan. Paint flowers with edible red. Search for an alternative to purchased red color, which could also contain unhealthy sorbitol.
18. Place a marzipan bullet coated in poppy seeds in the center of a flower. Garnish the cake with three flowers, or according to your taste.

oil grape seeds, white granulated sugar, eggs, flour, milk, poppy seeds ground, baking soda, egg yolks, milk, white sugar, allpurpose, vanilla pod, mascarpone, poppy seeds, food coloring red

Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Poppy-Cake-With-Vanilla-Custard--1364919 (may not work)