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For the dough mix first seven ingredients well.
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Mix flour and baking powder and stir one part into the dough mixture.
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Knead in the rest of the flour.
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If the dough is too dry you can add one or two tablespoons of water.
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Preheat oven (180C, 355F) and grease a baking tray.
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Put dough onto tray and roll out so that the whole tray is covered.
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Half vanilla beans lengthwise and scrap out the vanilla seeds.
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Set aside.
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Separate eggs into yolks and egg whites.
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Beat the egg whites until stiff and set aside.
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Now put dough into oven and bake for 10 minutes.
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While the dough is in the oven beat butter until creamy.
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Then add egg yolk by egg yolk.
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Add vanilla seeds, honey, cinnamon, grounded almonds and grounded poppy seeds.
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Mix until well blended.
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Fold in egg whites.
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After 10 minutes take out the dough of the oven and reduce heat to 160C (320F).
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Spread Topping equally over the dough and bake for another 30 to 40 minutes or until topping is firm.
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Take cake out of the oven and cut into pieces.
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Let cool completely on a cooling rack.
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NOTE on poppy seeds: try to get already grounded poppy seeds.
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To ground them is a lot of work.
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If you can't get grounded poppy seeds, you should ground them first, because it may take a while.
