Poppy-seed roll cake.
For Easter I baked 2 different cakes. Posting recipes separately.
I have multiple recipes for the dough. They are all very similar in ingredients but quantities vary slightly.
This is the one I used. Makes 3 logs. I wrapped the logs in parchment paper to bake. Left a little expansion room when I wrapped the dough ready to bake.
Ingredients.
500 g All-purpose flour
180 ml warm milk (about 3/4 cup)
15 g yeast, (2 envelopes)
70 g sugar (about 1/3 cup)
6 egg yolks
1 Tbs Vanilla
½ Tsp salt
150 g butter. (about 1½ sticks)
Poppy-seed mix from can. 850 g size. Already prepared, but I enhanced it with raisins hydrated in Rum.
1 cup of golden raisins.
Procedure.
Proofed yeast, in warm milk and some flour.
Beat egg yolks and sugar.
Add vanilla, salt and ½ of the flour. Mix well.
Add cooled melted butter, and mix.
When well mixed, add remaining flour a little at a time to get dough to stiff consistency.
Rise until doubled, (1 to 1½ hours) Then roll out.
Prepare poppy-seed filling. . Beat egg whites and soak raisins.
I did not need to add all the egg whites, mix would have been too runny, so about 1/3 of the quantity. I did a little at a time until my mix looked as below.
Spread out onto rolled out dough.
Rolled up.
Placed into parchment. After a second rise, about 30 minutes, baked @350°F for about 40 minutes. Checked, they were nice and tanned, so I took out and cooled still wrapped in parchment paper. After about 15 minutes, I removed parchment paper.
Mity delicious


How it looked with the other cake displayed on table.

,,The pale one in the background is Pepperidge Farm Coconut layer
Note: I have made same dough recipe, and filled with shredded apples, (dusted with cinnamon, and sprinkled with brown sugar,, and rolled up same way.)