Poppy Seed Cake - vegetable oil

Method

• For the dough mix first seven ingredients well.
• Mix flour and baking powder and stir one part into the dough mixture.
• Knead in the rest of the flour.
• If the dough is too dry you can add one or two tablespoons of water.
• Preheat oven (180C, 355F) and grease a baking tray.
• Put dough onto tray and roll out so that the whole tray is covered.
• Half vanilla beans lengthwise and scrap out the vanilla seeds.
• Set aside.
• Separate eggs into yolks and egg whites.
• Beat the egg whites until stiff and set aside.
• Now put dough into oven and bake for 10 minutes.
• While the dough is in the oven beat butter until creamy.
• Then add egg yolk by egg yolk.
• Add vanilla seeds, honey, cinnamon, grounded almonds and grounded poppy seeds.
• Mix until well blended.
• Fold in egg whites.
• After 10 minutes take out the dough of the oven and reduce heat to 160C (320F).
• Spread Topping equally over the dough and bake for another 30 to 40 minutes or until topping is firm.
• Take cake out of the oven and cut into pieces.
• Let cool completely on a cooling rack.
• NOTE on poppy seeds: try to get already grounded poppy seeds.
• To ground them is a lot of work.
• If you can't get grounded poppy seeds, you should ground them first, because it may take a while.