Ingredients for the dough:

- 500 g of wheat flour

- 130 g of butter
- 200 g of sugar
- 50 g yeast
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 cup of milk
- Pinch of salt
- Vanilla sugar
- Egg to lubricate
Ingredients for the mass of poppy:
- 2 cups of water
- 1 cup of milk
- 500 g poppy
- 300 g of sugar
- 70 g of butter
- whites from 3 eggs
- 1 vanilla sugar
- raisins
- Orange peel
- nuts
Ingredients for frosting:
- 1 cup of powdered sugar
- 4 tablespoons hot water

1. At the beginning of the boil a glass of milk with two glasses of water.
2. In a separate pot with poppy, pour the hot milk into the pot and
occasionally stir on low heat over 20 minutes. After 20 minutes the
poppy consistency should look like this:

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3. Mix yeast with a spoon of sugar. It should be a syrupy consistency.

Then take 3 eggs and divide yolks and whites. Pour sugar and plain
vanilla to the yolks. Pour a glass of milk and yeast to the yolks. Gently
heat and stirring constantly.
4. Meanwhile, melt the butter. To the wheat flour, pour a teaspoon of
salt and the heated yolk solution from step 3. Mix thoroughly. Now, add
the butter to the mixture and knead again. Cover the dough with foil
and leave in a warm place for 30 minutes to rise
5. In the meantime, drain off poppy and pass twice through a grinder.
In a skillet melt the 70 g butter, and add the ground poppy seeds. add
plain sugar and vanilla sugar. At this point you can add nuts and dried
fruit if you want them. fry the ground poppy seed mixture over medium
heat for about 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Make sure not to burn the
sugar. Now whip up the egg whites until they are stiff mix with ground
poppy mixture.
6. These ratios make two portions.So either split the ratios to make
one portion or just make two cakes. Anyway divide the poppy mass
dough into two equal portions.
7. On a breadboard/countertop sprinkle a large amount of flour and put
half of the dough from step 4 in the flour. Sprinkle them up and roll out
with a rolling pin. Form a rectangle with the dimensions 30x20 inches.
Spread the poppy mass from step 6 evenly on the dough, leaving ~ 2
cm edges. With one of the 2cm edges fold it over the poppy mass, then
fold the corners on top of that. Then, Gently roll up the dough until you
make a loaf. Make use of that excess flour. Smear some stirred/mixed
egg yolks(Like when you make scrambled eggs) on top of the loaf.
Wrap the Makowiecz twice tightly with baking paper and put in a long
baking pan like this:

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8. With the leftover dough/mass, you can make a smaller loaf. And just
repeat the above step
9. insert the loaves into a medium preheated oven and bake at 160175 degrees Celsius for 60 minutes. Let the cakes cool down. then
remove the loves and unravel the paper.
10. pour the icing and decorate with orange peel.