On Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, it’s traditional to make lots of sweet foods and desserts hoping for a sweet new year. One of the most popular Rosh Hashanah recipes, served around the world, is honey cake. This honey cake recipe is moist, rich in flavour and full of spices that will make your house smell delicious!
Easy to make
- One bowl cake: This cake comes together in just one bowl. All you will need to make this is the ingredients, a whisk and a mixing bowl.
- Texture: The texture of this cake is light and fluffy and melt in your mouth delicious. It stays soft for 3-4 days!
- Flavour: It is made with honey, cinnamon, nutmeg and black tea, which combines into a delicious honey cake flavour.
- Time: You will need only 10 minutes to prepare this cake and another 45 minutes to bake it. Total of under an hour to make this from start to finish!
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cups flour
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup honey
- ½ cup hot tea
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1½ teaspoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
Method
Preheat your oven to 160c and prepare a grease proof paper-lined loaf pan.
In a separate large mixing bowl, add the eggs, sugar, oil, vanilla extract and honey and mix well with a whisk. Add the hot tea to the wet mixture and mix until combined.
In a separate medium mixing bowl, add the dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Mix with a small whisk until combined.
Pour the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients mixture and carefully mix until just combined (don’t over mix!).
Pour the batter into a grease proof paper-lined loaf pan and bake in a 160c preheated oven for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Drizzle honey on top of the cake when it comes out of the oven. Smooth it out with a spoon.
Let the cake cool for at least 30 minutes and serve!
Expert Tips
- Don’t skip drizzling the top of the loaf with honey! This is the final touch that takes this honey cake to the next level.
- Use room temperature ingredients. It is important that you use room-temperature ingredients like eggs. This step ensures that your mixture mixes into a homogeneous mixture and bakes perfectly. You don’t want to place cold batter into the oven.
- For extra crunch, add chopped nuts of your choice like chopped pecans, almonds, or walnuts.
- Don’t over mix the batter: you don’t want to develop the gluten in the flour. This step ensures you have moist cake and not dense and dry cake.
- Measure your flour correctly! When measuring your flour, avoid scooping it with a measuring cup. Instead, stir the flour with a spoon to create as many air pockets as possible and spoon it into your measuring cup. Finally, level it with the back of a knife.
- Line your baking pan with grease proof paper! This step helps the cake to release easily from the pan.
- Be patient! It’s extremely tempting to eat this cake as it is pulled out of the oven, but let the honey cake cool for at least 20 minutes so it will be firmer and won’t crumble.
Wishing you a happy, healthy and sweet new year!
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