Honey cake
Ingredients
Cake
- 150 g honey5½ oz honey
- 150 g butter5½ oz butter
- 200 g light brown sugar7 oz light brown sugar
- 3 eggs, large
- 250 g plain flour9 oz plain flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tbsp brúnkökukrydd (Icelandic spice-cake mix) (a mix of cinnamon, cloves, ginger and allspice; use mixed spice or gingerbread spice)
Buttercream
- 150 g butter, softened5½ oz butter, softened
- 150 g icing sugar (powdered sugar)5½ oz icing sugar (powdered sugar)
- 2 egg yolks
Method
Cake
- Heat the oven to 175°C and grease a 24 cm round tin (or line a tin about 20 cm x 30 cm with baking paper).Heat the oven to 350 °F and grease a 9 in round tin (or line a tin about 8 in x 12 in with baking paper).
- Melt the honey and butter together in a pan over a low heat and let it cool a little.
- Whisk the brown sugar and eggs together until pale and fluffy.
- Stir the honey mixture into the egg mixture. Mix the flour, baking powder and spice and fold them in gently.
- Pour the batter into the tin and bake for about 35–45 minutes, until a skewer pushed into the middle comes out clean. Let it cool completely.
Buttercream
- Beat the softened butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy, add the egg yolks and beat well. Spread over the cooled cake.
As she wrote it
Hunangskaka
150 gr. hunang - 150 gr. smjör
200 gr. púðursykur - 3 stór egg
250 gr. hveiti - 2 tsk. lyftiduft
1 msk. brúnkökukrydd
Krem:
150 gr. smjör - 150 gr. flórsykur
2 eggjarauður