Lime, poppyseeds & blackberries cake with cream cheese frosting

Versiunea in limba romana: Prajitura cu limeta, mac si mure & cream cheese frosting 

I love poppyseeds! I love poppyseeds cakes and I keep thinking of a dessert we had some time ago in Germany, in Garmish. A kind of pie filled with an enormous quantity of poppyseeds. Crazy... It was winter, snow capped mountains, hours and hours of walking to the lodge... We would have skied, if we knew how :) The path was so beautiful, the mountains so magnificent and dramatic, the lodge so perfect and cozy, that instantly everything, including the dessert, was forever in my heart, in the favorite memories "folder". I remember my kid's red noses and their happy little eyes... Probably the hypnotic effect of the poppy seeds was exactly what we needesd after such a trip :) Anyway, winter is far away... At list, that's my hope. Spring is here. Blackberries. Strawberries. Raspberries. Sun. Green. Blue. Yellow. Gold. Light...

A wonderful cake for a beautiful day! Easy to prepare & so delicious, with a well deserved festive touch from the cream cheese frosting... What to celebrate? Spring! Spring is here...

85 g unsalted butter, at room temperature + 245 g sugar + zest of 2 lime + 50 g poppyseeds
170 ml milk
235 g flour + 2 tsp baking powder + a little salt
3 egg whites, mixed until it becomes a dense foam
150 g blackberries, mashes (with the fork)

Cream cheese frosting
130 g Philadelphia cream cheese, very cold
50 g unsalted butter, at room temperature + 250-300 g confectioner's sugar

Heat the oven to 170 degrees C. Prepare a round cake tray (removable bottom), with butter and baking paper. Mix well the butter, sugar, lime zest and poppy seeds. Slowly add the milk, mixing (the consistence is not homogenous yet). In another bowl mix flour, baking powder and salt, then add the poppyseeds cream, in three steps, mixing well each time. With a silicone spatula scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl, making sure there are no solid parts left. Add the mashed blackberries, mix slowly. Add the egg whites foam and mix carefully.

Pour the batter in the prepared tray and cook in the heated oven for 30 minutes. Let the cake cool in the tray. Prepare the cream cheese frosting: mix well with the mixer the butter and sugar, until you obtain a fluffy foam; add the cream cheese and mix for aprox 5 minutes; do not over mix.

When the cake is cold, put the cake in the plate you like and put the frosting on top. Lovely ♥