Honey Cake
This delightful honey cake is a moist and tender treat perfect for any occasion. The sweet aroma of honey fills the kitchen as the cake bakes to golden perfection. Topped with a drizzle of honey icing, this simple yet elegant cake is sure to impress your friends and family.
— Constant Cookbook
Ingredients
- 170g/6oz clear honey
- 140g/5oz butter
- 85g/3oz light muscovado sugar
- 2 eggs
- 200g/7oz self raising flour
- water
- 55g/2oz icing sugar
- 1 tbsp clear honey
- hot water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C/350F/Gas 3 and butter and line the bottom of a 7in/18cm cake tin.
- Measure the honey, butter and sugar into a large pan. Add a tablespoon of water and heat gently until melted.
- Remove from the heat and mix in the eggs and flour.
- 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.
- Cool slightly in the tin before turning out onto a wire rack.
- 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 in whatever design takes your fancy.
Cook Time
1H
Prep Time
PT30M
Yield
Serves 8
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