Mother Poppell's Poppyseed Cake

Yesterday was Ted's birthday.  He always requests poppyseed cake.  The recipe comes from his mother, but I don't know where she got it from.  We have tinkered with the recipe over the years to lower the fat and calories.  Here is our current version.

Combine 1/3 C poppyseeds (282 calories) and 1 and 1/2 C sour milk or buttermilk (150 calories) or plain nonfat yougurt (180 calories) and let sit.
In a mixing bowl blend till creamy 1/3 C canola oil (744 calories) and 1 C sugar (774 calories)
Add to this four eggs (320 calories) and 1 t vanilla.  If you like add 1/3 C applesauce (70 calories) or other fruit puree (I usually use our homemade apricot puree).
In a separate bowl combine 2 and 1/2 C all purpose flour (1100 calories) and 1/2 C whole wheat flour (200 calories) with 1T baking powder.
In small bowl mix 2T sugar (96 calories) and 1 t cinnamon.
Now, add the flour mixture and the poppyseed mixture alternately into the egg mixture.
When mixed, pour half the batter into an oiled bunt or angel food cake pan.  Sprinkle the cinnamon and sugar mixture over the batter.  Add the rest of the batter.  Bake at 350 forever, about 1 hour and twenty minutes. Total calories are 3766 in the cake and that doesn't include the frosting!  (Which didn't turn out very well.) I don't even want to think about it!  We ate about a quarter of the cake last night.  Which means I ate 470 calories plus the chocolate frosting calories.  On top of dinner and champagne!  No wonder I had trouble sleeping!

We had a nice bike ride yesterday before all the calories. It was cloudy and mild.  We sometimes see people biking up the hill multiple times, and we have been discussing for some time whether we could bike up the hill twice.  So yesterday after we got down and were started on our way home we decided to go back up the hill.  It was a perfect time to try it, no wind and pleasantly cool, and we found it was quite easy actually.  In some ways easier than the first time up, maybe because we weren't pushing for speed.
In other news, I have tried dividing some of my sages, I'm hoping this is still a good time so that they can get established before it gets too warm and dry. Also mowed the strawberries. Have started weeding around the garlic and the rest of the garden.
Ordered my seeds but they haven't come yet.