Honey cake - Real Recipes from Mums

Ingredients (serves 12)

250g clear honey, plus about 2 tbsp extra to glaze
225g unsalted butter
100g dark muscovado sugar
3 large eggs, beaten
300g self-raising flour

Method

Preheat the oven to fan 140C/ conventional 160C/gas 3. Butter and line a 20cm round loosebottomed cake tin. Cut the butter into pieces and drop into a medium pan with the honey and sugar. Melt slowly over a low heat. When the mixture looks quite liquid, increase the heat under the pan and boil for about one minute. Leave to cool for 15-20 minutes, to prevent the eggs cooking when they are mixed in.
Beat the eggs into the melted honey mixture using a wooden spoon. Sift the flour into a large bowl and pour in the egg and honey mixture, beating until you have a smooth, quite runny batter.
Pour the mixture into the tin and bake for 50 minutes-1 hour until the cake is well-risen, golden brown and springs back when pressed. A skewer pushed into the centre of the cake should come out clean.
Turn the cake out on a wire rack. Warm 2 tbsp honey in a small pan and brush over the top of the cake to give a sticky glaze, then leave to cool. Keeps for 4-5 days wrapped, in an airtight tin.

18 Comments

- - Frankiielot said
  - 10 Dec 2020
    8:38 pm
There’s a lot of hype around honey cake at the moment but the layered kind.
This looks so much easier to make so will definitely give it a try and I am a big fan of the layered one (medovic).

- - Cookfromscratchmum said
  - 01 Nov 2018
    11:05 am
Have never heard of the muscovadoo sugar but the cake is delicious

- - tessie said
  - 17 Apr 2018
    11:11 am
I’d love to make this cake but I’ve never seen or heard of muscovado sugar before.

- - maddisonmelkie@gmail.com said
  - 08 Nov 2017
    11:38 am
I love this cake i want to make it because it sounds great and looks super moist. Great recipe

- - mom81879 said
  - 25 Oct 2017
    10:29 am
Yummo! So easy to make with ingredients that are always in my cupboard. Would love it with a cream cheese icing. Mmmmm

- - Toni Rowland said
  - 20 Oct 2017
    3:02 pm
Sounds amazing and so simple to make.

- - serotonin said
  - 02 Oct 2017
    3:55 pm
Love this having only 5 ingredients, and honey, yum! Looks like something you could experiment with too. Thanks for sharing!

- - mom94125 said
  - 04 Sep 2017
    5:50 pm
i haven’t heard of this recipe idea before plus i haven’t heard of that type of sugar. is there something that i can substitute it with, in case i can’t find it at the shops? this sounds like it will be yummy though

- - mom112023 said
  - 31 Aug 2017
    11:13 pm
Thanks very much for the recipe. Will be trying this lovely cake. Yum.

- - natct said
  - 28 Aug 2017
    7:28 am
Love honey every way we can eat it. I think this would be perfect with pear in it. Yum thankyou.

- - Ellen said
  - 28 Aug 2017
    2:59 am
That is one very sweet cake with 250 gm Honey and 100 gm sugar !
We love beautiful raw honey and manuka honey but do not like to heat it as it destroys the many beautiful nutrients.

- - taynik46 said
  - 23 Aug 2017
    10:59 pm
oh I have never tried a honey cake – I don’t even know what clear honey is! – thank you for sharing this recipe I am very interested to learn more about clear honey and to make this soon

- - cherz said
  - 23 Aug 2017
    9:22 pm
oh this looks so good but alas way to much sugars for me ..honey and sugar would play up with my fibromyalgia but am sure family would love it. thanks.

- - mom94378 said
  - 22 Aug 2017
    8:49 pm
Have never heard of this before. Intriguing indeed and I love honey, especially the great Tassie stuff!

- - mom112217 said
  - 22 Aug 2017
    5:46 pm
Your honey cake look’s great,lovely with cream! Thanks!

- - mom93821 said
  - 22 Aug 2017
    2:43 pm
Love honey and your honey cake looks delicious and I bet tastes scrumptious too.

- - mom90758 said
  - 22 Aug 2017
    2:08 pm
Look at the gorgeous colour. And the smell must be divine because of the honey!!
- mom93821 replied
  
  24 Aug 2017 , 6:51 am
  I love the amber colour too – a divine colour.