Looking for a recipe for a Polish poppy seed strudel/cake (makowiec)

What is a good recipe for this. I want to try making my own as it's costing me a fortune at the bakery :)

could you describe, the particular kind you want to bake :)
any of those here?
google.com/search?q=makowiec

The kind we have been buying is labeled strudel or cake on the label. It is a sweet bread/cake and has a big cavity full of poppy seed or poppy seed/walnut filling. It looks like the filling was spread on the dough and then rolled togeher leaving a crescent shaped area with the filling. Some look like they might have been baked in a loaf pan and others like a tube. Am I making any sense? :)

Something like this although most I get have more cake/bread type area

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makowiec

Like This?

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  Poppy Seed Roll
  

for the recipe go.

and for step-by-step photos of assembling the cake

to make your life easier you could buy the filling in any polish delis, look for a big can of "masa makowa" :)
Good luck and let us know if it's the taste you are looking for :)

Thank you very much Olasz and everybody.
I like food in general so anything will be something fun to try, and sweet cake and bread is like candy to me --- that looks perfect. I'll check for the masa makowa next week. The grocery/meat store I go to , most of the employees don't speak english so it is next to impossible for me to try and explain, or ask questions. :)

Dziekuje for those links!!!!

that is closer to what I was use to as a child... Poppyseed, dark and golden raisins - yum

The local farmers market has an Amish group that makes the roll and it is not as good as I remember. The closest was associated with an American Legion Hall in Scranton, PA and they charge $12 for a 12 inch loaf. yikes

I will have to keep this recipe to check against the one I have (unfortuanately we are moving this summer and it is already packed away).

~francesca

$5/roll is too much?? it'll take you at least a couple of hours to make..

shawn_h, are those rolls polish?

hmmm. polish food is wonderful

I love Polish poppy seed cake. I was weaned on it ....yummy :)

Yes, I find them in my local Polish deli.

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Polish Makowiec ( Poppy seed cake)

Hi
I need help with making a Makowiec.
I have made it twice and it doesn't taste right.
Can someone post a recipe here or walk me threw how to make one
Many thanks
Poliwog

I can,t help you make one , but if you manage a good one i would be happy to help you eat it...its wonderfull.....

i attempted to make one last Easter and it came out rock solid ha ha ha. i'm not good at baking cakes :(

why don't you post yours and we'll see if you're missing something or maybe something is messed up with your method.