Mom's sour cream poppy-seed roulade: No rising, quick and perfectly tender

Mom's sour cream poppy-seed roulade: No rising, quick and perfectly tender

Name: Mom's sour cream poppy-seed roulade: No rising, quick and perfectly tender
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour (cup approx. 250 ml); 100 g butter (softened); 1 egg; 4 heaping tablespoons sour cream; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 150 g ground poppy seeds; sugar to taste (approx. 80–100 g); ground cinnamon to taste

Easy to prepare
6 portions
45 minutes

Jan, 09. 02. 2026

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Mom’s sour cream poppy-seed roulade is a quick and easy no-yeast dessert that offers a tender texture and classic poppy-seed flavor — ideal with coffee or as a sweet breakfast. If you’d like to try other tried-and-true desserts from home cooking, we also recommend cottage cheese cake according to my mother’s recipe with a delicate cream or the flavor-rich upside-down apple cake with sour cream and chocolate, which, like this roulade, will delight lovers of classic homemade pastries.

For 6 portions

Ingredients

Dough:

2 cups all-purpose flour (cup approx. 250 ml)
100 g butter (softened)
1 egg
4 heaping tablespoons sour cream
1 teaspoon baking soda

Filling:

150 g ground poppy seeds
sugar to taste (approx. 80–100 g)
ground cinnamon to taste

Preparation procedure

Put the all-purpose flour, softened butter, sour cream, baking soda and part of the beaten egg into a bowl (reserve a smaller portion for brushing). Work into a smooth, cohesive dough. If it's too stiff, add a little sour cream; if sticky, lightly dust with flour.
Roll the dough out on a floured surface into a rectangle about 3–4 mm thick.
Evenly sprinkle the surface of the dough with ground poppy seeds mixed with sugar and cinnamon. Spread the filling evenly so the roulade rolls up well.
Carefully roll the dough into a roulade. Transfer it to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper seam-side down. Brush the surface with the remaining beaten egg.
Preheat the oven to 180 °C. Bake the roulade for about 25 minutes, until the surface is nicely golden.

Number of servings

6–8 servings (1 larger roulade)

Total preparation time

approx. 45 minutes

(including 25 minutes baking)

Recipe conclusion

The sour cream poppy-seed roulade is an ideal choice when you want to quickly prepare a homemade pastry without complicated rising. Thanks to the simple dough and classic filling, it pleases the whole family and is great with coffee as well as a sweet breakfast or snack. You can easily adapt the recipe to a different filling, for example walnut or apple.