Very nice for tea with the little touch of whiskey. 🙂 That’s a rich and delicious honey cake!
Ingredients:
200 grs. self-raising flour (or all-purpose flour with
baking powder) 170 grs.butter180 grs soft brown sugar (light brown sugar)
3 beaten eggs 3tablespoons whisky Rind of a small orange, grated
Ingredients for butter Icing:
180 grs. icing sugar 70 butter 2 tablespoons clear honey Juice from a small orange Toasted
flaked almonds as decoration
Method:
Cream the butter and sugar together, add the orange rind
and beat in the eggs, one at a time. Whisk until the mixture is pale and fluffy.
Sift in half the self-raising flour (or all-purpose flour and baking powder) and
pour in the whisky.
Fold in to the mixture and sift in the remaining flour and
again fold in. Grease a pan loaf about 18 cm.Bake for 20/25 minutes in an oven at
190C/until the cake is a light golden colour. Turn onto a wire
rack to allow it to cool.
Put the butter, honey and one tablespoon of orange juice in a mixing bowl.
Slowly sift in the icing (frosting) sugar and work the mixture till they are all
combined.
Spread over the cake the icing smoothly on the top. Add the toasted almonds as
decoration.
By @gloria.baker.587 .
Thanks for inspiring us!
You can see the recipe here: canelakitchen.blogspot.com
