Honey Cake

Try super easy honey cake recipe for a rich, moist honey cake: perfect with a cuppa.Belive me, when you need to pep yourself up after a hard day or a bad mood, there’s nothing which works better than this…

Ingredients:

1 1/4 cup Plain flour/Maida

1 cup minus 2 tbsp Condensed milk

1/2 cup Oil (I used sunflower oil)

1/2 cup Orange juice

3 tbsp Powdered sugar

1 tsp Baking powder

1/2 tsp Baking soda

1/2 tsp Orange zest

1 tsp Lemon Juice

1 tsp Vanilla essence

For Syrup:

1/2 cup Water

2 tbsp Sugar

1/4 cup Honey

For topping:

4 tbsp Mixed fruit jam

1 tsp Sugar – 1 tsp

Desiccated coconut – As needed

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 180 deg C. Mix flour,baking powder,baking soda with a whisk to ensure even mixing. In another bowl, mix condensed milk, orange juice, oil, sugar, vanilla essence, lemon juice.
• Add flour and mix well. Add orange zest (orange skin part, grated) and mix.
• Transfer to a baking tray greased with oil and dusted with flour. Bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• Cool down for 10 mins and invert over a wire rack to cool down completely. Trim the sides.
• Prick the cake with tooth pick at various places. Mean while prepare sugar syrup by boiling water and sugar just until sugar dissolves.
• Bring to luke warm and mix honey.
• Heat jam and sugar over low flame in a pan until it melts.
• Over the flat surface of the cake, pour the prepared syrup generously so that the cake absorbs the syrup. Over this, spread the jam to form a thin layer.
• Sprinkle desiccated coconut all over the surface to cover up the jam. Cut into desired shape and serve.

Notes:

Add honey only to luke warm sugar syrup.

Since this cake is super moist because of syrup, jam, this has to be consumed within 2 –3 days (kept inside fridge)

After slicing the cake, you can also pour the syrup so that the sides of the cakes also get generous syrup.