Poppy seed cake with apple sauce

Last year, the cake of the country was poppy seed cake with apple. (Sorry it is in Hungarian, but the original recipe!!!) During the year several bakers work on their recipes and a jury has to decide which is the best. And the winner will be announced formly on the Foundation Day, on 20th August. And it is the best cake ever. I am still collecting the courage to bake it.
But until that, here it is the cheap version of it. The base was just found on Judit's blog, Only Puffin Marmalade ... you know one of the Bud Spencer classics. During the weekend I went through her recepies of 5 years. Huge. I pinned a lot of them.
Definitelly worth the try. See below my version.

POPPY SEED CAKE WITH APPLE SAUCE

For the cake:
Preheat the oven for 180 °C. Stir in a bowl 320 g flour, 5 g baking powder, a little salt, 65 g grinded poppy seed, 75 g candied lemon peel and 75 g candied orange peel. These will be the dry ingredients. For the wet ingredients: stir 4 eggs and 225 g sugar till it get light colored. Give to it 225 g melted butter, 5 tsp yoghurt and 3 tsp lemon juice. Finally, give the dry ingredients to the wets spoon by spoon during stirring. Put it into a buttered, 26 cm diameter cake form and bake it for 45 mins.
For the sauce:
In a saucepan combine 2 peeled, cored and chopped apples with 100 ml apple juice. Cover and cook for 5 mins. Then give it a good sir with food processor and add 125 g yoghurt. Cook for another 5 mins till he sauce start stiffing. And that is it.
I did not add any sugar to the sauce, because he apple juice was very sweet. And of course you can add cinnamon or any other spices. I did not because I thought than it would be too much flavor.
The soft texture of the cake was so delicious with the warm sauce. Even my son ate half a slice, despite of he does not like sweets. That's odd, because I have never thought there is someone who doesn't like sweets. I could eat them all day long ... OK, OK, and I do!
Enjoy!

  
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Cottage Cheese Cake

Latelly I mentioned to one of my old seen friends that I write a blog and she asked if it is about baking. OK, as for stitching, I am a follower on baking as well. I looooooove cakes, cookies, biscuits, etc. And everyone who knows me knows that.
The other reason I write here down this recipe is that I like it very much but always have to spend a half an hour to find it among my notes.
Well, this is it:

(COTTAGE) CHEESE CAKE

In Hungary cottage cheese is very popular, and some uses even instead of mascarpone for cheesecake. So you have to know, this will not look like the cheesecake we all know and love!

For the pastry you need 100 g butter, 50 g sugar, 10 g vanille fragranced sugar, 1 egg and a hint of salt. After quickly putting it together, keep it for 30 mins in the fridge.
For the filling you will put 100 g butter, 100 g sugar, 10 g vanille fragrenced sugar into the food processor and make it a soft cream. Than you add 3 egg yolk one by one, and make it a nice yellow cream. Than you add 1 bag of vanille pudding powder and 750 g cottage cheese. I did stir mine on this point by hand, because I wanted to leave some of the cottage cheese pieces visible for a more rustic effect. Finally you add the 3 whipped egg-whites.
Roll out the pastry into a 24 cm diameter form to have crusts on the sides as well, and pour the filling in. Bake it on preheated 175 °C oven for an hour.
Enjoy!

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