Honey Cake.
You can cook Honey Cake using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Honey Cake
- It's of and 1/4 cups (175 g) all-purpose flour.
- You need of baking soda.
- Prepare of baking powder.
- You need of ground cinnamon.
- You need of salt.
- You need of ground cloves - optional.
- Prepare of ground cardamom or nutmeg - optional.
- Prepare of large eggs.
- It's of granulated sugar.
- You need of honey.
- You need of canola oil.
- It's of warm coffee or tea (mix 1/2 cup hot water with 1 teaspoon instant coffee or 1 tea bag).
- It's of vanilla extract.
- You need of sliced almonds, pecans or walnuts.
Honey Cake step by step
- Preheat oven to 340°F/170°C. Grease a 9×5-inch loaf pan..
- In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, cloves and cardamom/nutmeg. Set aside..
- In a mixer bowl fitted with the whisk attachment, whisk together eggs, granulated sugar and honey on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, 2-3 minutes. On low speed and with the mixer running, slowly add the oil and vanilla extract and beat until combined. Turn off mixer..
- Beat in the flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with the coffee/tea in 2 additions, starting and ending with the flour. Beat until smooth. Do not over mix..
- Pour the batter into prepared loaf pan. Sprinkle with nuts. Bake for 35-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. If the top is browning too fast while baking, cover pan loosely with aluminum foil..
- Allow cake to cool for 10 minutes then remove from pan and set on a wire rack to cool completely..
- The cake tastes better a day after it’s made. It's best served at room temperature..