Mary Jo's Poppy Seed Cake

Ingredients

140 gr poppy seeds
475 ml milk
170 gr butter
500 gr sugar
325 gr cake flour
3 gr salt
14 gr baking powder
4 egg whites
3 gr cornstarch
4 egg yolks
1 broken pecans
4 gr vanilla
9 pans greased

Instructions

minutes on racks. Turn out and cool completely. FROSTING: Combine in saucepan sugar, cornstarch. Beat together then add, mixing until smooth, egg yolks and milk. Add lastly broken pecans and cook very slowly, stirring frequently to prevent burning until thick like filling, 20 to 25 minutes. Remove and add vanilla. When cool spread frosting between layers and on top of poppy seed cake.