Honey cake

Ever since I started keeping bees I have always been on the lookout for a perfect honey cake. I spotted this recipe in a feature about using stuff up (in this case, crystallised honey), and it seemed to fit the bill. So I gave it a try.

200-250 g honey
150 g butter
2 eggs, beaten
220 g wholemeal flour
1 tsp baking powder

Heat the oven to 200C. Grease and line a 20 cm diameter cake tin. Melt 170 g honey and the butter in a pan over a low heat. Remove from the heat, stir in the eggs, flour and baking powder until well combined, then pour into the prepared cake tin. Bake c. 35 min / until a skewer comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Spike the cake all over with a skewer, then spread / crumble the remaining honey over the top.


It was a bit dry. Maybe I left it in the oven a bit long? Or I used 200 g honey, maybe it would be worth trying with 250 g instead? The quest for the perfect honey cake continues...