Neil recently took some honey from a well established bee hive, so for the first time for a long time we have some honey. Here he is with our friend Emma in their bee suits after moving some bees.
So I decided to make a honey cake as I’d not made one for a long time, here is the recipe.
HONEY CAKE RECIPE
Ingredients
- 170g/6oz clear honey
- 140g/5oz butter
- 85g/3oz light muscovado sugar (or I have used dark brown coconut sugar)
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 200g/7oz self raising flour, sieved (I used wholemeal self raising flour)
- water
Preparation method
1. Preheat oven to 180C/350F/Gas 3 and butter and line the bottom of a 7in/18cm cake tin.
2. Measure the honey, butter and sugar into a large pan. Add a tablespoon of water and heat gently until melted.
3. Remove from the heat and mix in the flour.
4. When fully mixed, add the beaten eggs and mix well
5. Spoon into the cake tin and bake for 40-45 minutes until the cake is springy to the touch and shrinking slightly from the sides of the tin.
6. Cool slightly in the tin before turning out onto a wire rack.
7. If required you can make icing as follows:
For the icing
- 55g/2oz icing sugar
- 1 tbsp clear honey
- hot water
8. While the cake is still warm, make the icing by mixing the sugar and honey together with 2-3 teaspoons of hot water. Trickle over the cake. This dries as a honey crust on the cake.
My cake was very dark brown because of the dark brown coconut sugar I used. It made a really delicious cake.
Guests at our B&B get offered tea and cake if they arrive in the afternoon, so if you want to try our honey cake come and stay with us. http://www.lodgehousebandbsomerset.co.uk
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