This moist honey cake has fantastic taste and a high-quality, tender crumb. You may discover an added richness from the buttermilk within the recipe, and the scrumptious taste mixture of honey, brown sugar, and cinnamon.
Desk of Contents
What you Want for this Cake
- Honey: Any sort of honey is nice on this recipe, whether or not wildflower honey, clover honey, and many others.
- Butter: We use unsalted butter since we use salt within the recipe. It should not be utterly delicate, however ought to simply “dent” when pressed.
- Sugar: We used each brown sugar and white sugar on this recipe. The brown sugar provides depth, moisture, and enhances the honey completely.
- Eggs: Room temperature eggs
- Cake Flour: Makes for an extremely delicate, tender crumb. See Notes when you want a substitute
- Baking Powder: To present the cake elevate
- Salt to reinforce the flavour and steadiness the sweetness of the recipe
- Cinnamon: Provides a light-weight, spiced taste
- Buttermilk provides a slight tanginess and makes for a extra tender cake
How you can Make a Honey Cake
This heavenly cake could not be simpler to make! With only a handful of elements, you possibly can whip the recipe up very quickly.
- First, preheat oven to 325 F and grease & flour a tube pan or bundt pan. (Our pan measured 10 inches throughout and had a baking capability of 12 cups). If utilizing a smaller pan, watch out to not overfill previous the ⅔ mark.
- In a separate bowl whisk the cake flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt to mix, put aside for later.
- Utilizing an electrical mixer (paddle attachment if utilizing a stand mixer), cream the butter on medium velocity till easy. Subsequent, steadily add the brown & white sugar and beat till mild and fluffy for 3 to five minutes.
- Add the eggs separately, mixing after every till the yolk is integrated.
- Add the honey to the buttermilk in a medium sized bowl or measuring cup
- With the mixer on low velocity, add the flour combination alternately with the buttermilk & honey combination to the butter/sugar/egg combination within the mixing bowl. Start and finish with the dry elements. I do three additions of dry, alternating with two additions of moist elements.
- Scoop batter into ready bundt pan.
- Bake at 325 levels for 1 hour and 5-10 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clear. *Baking instances might differ.
- Enable to chill within the pan (ideally on a wire rack) for 10 minutes earlier than turning out.
Making the Straightforward Honey Glaze
This easy honey glaze provides a lift of taste and curiosity to our honey pound cake!
After the cake has cooled, this glaze might be utilized with a spoon, or piped via a disposable piping bag (with the tip snipped away). Another choice is to use it with a ziplock bag with the nook snipped away.
The glaze is a spin on our simple vanilla glaze. It’s a mixture of milk, confectioners sugar, a pinch of salt, and a little bit of honey.
It isn’t meant to be eaten by the spoonful as it is vitally candy, however on a slice of cake, a drizzle of this glaze is ideal!
FAQs
Sure! This honey pound cake freezes superbly. Whether or not you might be baking prematurely, or saving leftover cake for an additional time, merely wrap the cake tightly in plastic wrap, adopted by foil. You may freeze the cake for as much as three months!
When baking prematurely, we like to position the cake (nonetheless barely heat) on a foil-wrapped cake cardboard, then cowl in plastic wrap adopted by aluminum foil.
To defrost, transfer the wrapped cake to the fridge in a single day, after which proceed to thaw the subsequent morning on the kitchen counter for just a few hours or till time to serve.
We wish to take away the wrapping after the condensation has fashioned (after sitting about 40-45 minutes at room temperature).
Technically, sure I might contemplate this a pound cake. It has comparable measurements to our different favourite pound muffins. It’s based mostly partially on our favourite Buttermilk Pound Cake recipe!
The crumb is velvet delicate and really high-quality. It’s so scrumptious!
The acidity in buttermilk softens the strands of gluten, making for an extremely tender cake.
Cake flour has much less protein and subsequently produces much less gluten. This additionally contributes to the cake being further moist and delicate.
No, this cake will likely be scrumptious it doesn’t matter what sort of honey you utilize!
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Benefit from the Recipe!
Thanks a lot for stopping by! We hope that you simply take pleasure in this wonderful recipe. It’s such a straightforward cake to make, and it tastes implausible. I simply love the feel and taste of honey cake recipe.
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Grease and flour a tube pan or bundt pan, and preheat oven to 325 ℉
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In a separate bowl whisk the cake flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt to mix, put aside for later.
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Utilizing an electrical mixer (paddle attachment if utilizing a stand mixer), cream the butter on medium velocity till easy. Subsequent, steadily add the brown & white sugar and beat till mild and fluffy for 3 to five minutes.
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Add the eggs separately, mixing after every till the yolk is integrated.
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Add the honey to the buttermilk in a medium sized bowl or measuring cup
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With the mixer on low velocity, add the flour combination alternately with the buttermilk & honey combination to the butter/sugar/egg combination within the mixing bowl. Start and finish with the dry elements. I do three additions of dry, alternating with two additions of moist elements.
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Scoop batter into ready bundt pan.
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Bake at 325 levels for 1 hour and 5-10 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clear. *Baking instances might differ.
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This makes roughly 8 cups of batter.
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Enable to chill within the pan (ideally on a wire rack) for 10 minutes earlier than turning out.
Straightforward Honey Glaze
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Combine the milk and honey collectively. Then, pour it over the powdered sugar and salt and blend till easy. If too thick, add a bit extra milk. If too skinny, add a bit extra powdered sugar.
Adorning the Cake
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As soon as the cake has cooled, you possibly can spoon the glaze over the cake, or for extra management, you possibly can spoon it right into a disposable piping bag with the tip snipped away.
Watch out to not overfill your pan in case you are utilizing a smaller bundt pan. Filling the pan not more than ⅔ full is a normal rule of thumb.
