Poppy-Seed Cake: Poppy-Seed Cake with Cream Filling, from the 1966 Better Homes and Gardens Pies and Cakes Cookbook.; sixties; 1960s; walnuts; Better Homes and Gardens; cake; poppy seeds; recipe

I love poppy seed cakes, muffins, cupcakes, candies, pretty much everything poppy seed. This is a great layer cake with poppy seeds for the cake and walnuts for the egg-yolk filling.

Both the cake and the filling are easy to make; the only hard part is cutting the cakes into two layers each and then reassembling them with filling in between. There’s no spreading filling on top, however—that’s where the powdered sugar comes in.

If you’re okay cutting horizontally this is a great cake for any gathering.

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