Friday started very early for me... awaking just before 3:30 I realized that a headache would follow if I didn't sleep more, but ideas and ambitions moved me out of bed. I've now got a poppy seed coffee cake baking in the oven.

Meanwhile I'm editing photos, quieting cats and making christmas ornaments!

Cake Recipe:

Poppy Seed Coffee Cake

Bake @ 350 abt 50 min

Cream: 2 sticks butter

             1 c sugar

            add I egg yolk

            beat in 4 eggs one at a time

            Final batter consistency should be like a thick cake mix.

beat 1.5 t b. powder

beat 1.5 t b. soda

.5 t salt

1 t vanilla

2 C flour

½ pt sour cream

1 C flour

½ pt sour cream

Topping: Mix: 1 egg white, 1 cup sugar & 1c  poppy seeds into a paste.

Grease a bunt cake pan (Crisco) and spread half the cake batter topped with half the sugar/poppy seed topping. Repeat this process before baking.

           

(Final Images to come!)