Delicious Spiced Honey Cake Recipe - Cakes - Belly Rumbles (2024)

Aromatic spiced honey cake is a simple cake with honey. Lots of honey, butter, and a generous addition of spices. Perfect for afternoon tea, picnics, or a slice as a lunch box treat.

Sometimes I simply feel like a slice of cake. Nothing fancy, something to satisfy my urge for a homemade baked treat. To have with a cup of tea in the afternoon or after dinner.

If you feel the same way, my spiced honey cake may be right for you. A cake with honey and spices that is easy to whip up. If you are after more honey cake recipes, you may also like my honey coffee cake.

Sara xxx

Ingredients

• Butter: Butter is the preference, but you can substitute margarine.
• Honey: Use a mild tasting honey that won't fight with the spices for taste prominence but still give a glorious honey flavor.
• Brown Sugar: Standard or dark brown sugar. If you use dark brown sugar the cake will be slightly darker and more caramelised.
• Self Raising Flour: You can replace self raising flour with 300 grams (2 cups) of plain flour + 4 teaspoons baking powder.
• Spices: Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Ground Cloves, Ginger. I regard this as the magic mix of spices, when pair together not only do they taste amazing, but smell sensational when baking.
• Eggs: Always use free range eggs if you can

Spiced Honey Cake Tips

Bake in a Loaf Tin
I often make spiced honey cake in a loaf tin, which means that after a few days you can even give it a light toasting to make it go that extra mile. That is of course if you haven’t eaten it all by then.

Rosh Hashanah Honey Cake
This recipe isn't a traditional honey cake for Rosh Hashanah. Very similar but it is missing a few key ingredients like orange juice and tea.

Over Baking
Be careful not to over bake the cake as it will dry out. It is quite a dense cake, but not a dense moist cake when baked. Watch the timing and test with a skewer. If it comes out clean it is done.

How to Make Spiced Honey Cake

• Preheat the over to 180°C (360 °F). Line and grease a 20cm round cake tin.
  
• In a medium saucepan place butter, honey and brown sugar. Over a low heat stir the ingredients until the butter has melted and the sugar has dissolved. Remove saucepan from the heat and set aside to cool.
  
• In a large bowl sift flour and spices. Add the cooled butter mixture and eggs. Using electric beaters, beat until the mixture is combined and smooth.
  
• Pour batter into prepared cake tin and bake in the oven for around 40 minutes, or until golden and cooked. Test with a skewer to ensure that the cake has cooked through. The skewer will be sticky, but there should be no batter attached to it when cake is tested.
  
• Cool in tin for 10 minutes and then remove cake from tin and cook on a wire rack.

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