Honey Spice Cake

Name: Honey Spice Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 1 cake, 10 serving(s)
Ingredients: 2/3 cup butter; 1/2 cup soft light brown sugar; 3/4 cup honey; 1 3/4 cups self raising flour; 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger; 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1/4 teaspoon caraway seed; 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves; 2 eggs, beaten; 3 cups icing sugar

Submitted by Aunty Dotty

"This is a yummy spicy cake I made for DB for his birthday. We were going away to the coast - it keeps really well and is actually better to eat the day after baking. Make sure you use a reasonably strongly flavoured honey in this too... From 'Cooking with Herbs and Spices'."

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Ready In:: 1hr 5mins
Ingredients:: 10
Yields:: 1 cake
Serves:: 10

ingredients

²⁄₃ cup butter
¹⁄₂ cup soft light brown sugar
³⁄₄ cup honey
1 ³⁄₄ cups self raising flour
¹⁄₂ teaspoon ground ginger
¹⁄₂ teaspoon ground cinnamon
¹⁄₄ teaspoon caraway seed
¹⁄₄ teaspoon ground cloves
2 eggs, beaten
3 cups icing sugar

directions

Preheat the oven to 180C or 350F, and grease the chosen tin.
Put butter, sugar, honey and 1 tbsp water into a saucepan and heat gently til melted and dissolved.
Remove from heat and cool well - about 10 minutes.
Sift flour into a bowl and mix in the spices.
Make a well in the centre and pour in the honey mix and eggs and beat until smooth.
Pour into prepared tin and bake 40-50 minutes or until done.
Make the icing by sifting the icing sugar into a bowl, stirring in enough water to make a flowing consistency and spoon it over the cooled cake. I used lemon juice instead of water in the icing - but that's just because I use any excuse to get citrus into foods! I think you could get as creative as you want with the icing. Enjoy!