Honey Cake

Honey Cake - Recipe

Northumberland Honey Cake

Honey cake is a family staple here at the Northumberland Honey Co. Over the years we have experimented with many different recipes and settled on a light and versatile sponge, enriched with our own raw honey. This honey cake recipe can be adapted for a celebration with the addition of our rich, heather honey buttercream icing or steeped in our Summer honey butter drizzle for afternoon tea.

Ingredients and Method for Honey Cake

Ingredients - Honey Cake

Honey Cake Ingredients

250g Northumberland Honey Co summer runny honey

225g unsalted butter

100g soft brown sugar

3 large free range eggs

300g self-raising flour

Method - Honey Cake

Honey Cake Method

Preheat oven to 160 (140 fan)

Butter and line 2 x 18” loose bottom cake tins

OR 1 x 24cm Springform tin

Put the butter in a pan with the honey and sugar and gently warm until melted, while stirring with a wooden spoon.

Set aside to cool.

When cool, beat eggs into the honey butter mixture

Sift the flour into a mixing bowl and pour in the wet ingredients. Beat until the batter is smooth and a pourable consistency.

Divide between 2 tins and bake for 40 mins or until a skewer comes out clean.

Ingredients and Method for Buttercream Icing

Buttercream Icing - Ingredients

Heather Honey Buttercream icing – ingredients

200g unsalted butter

150g icing sugar

Two heaped tablespoons soft set honey

2 drops vanilla extract

Buttercream Icing - Method

Cream butter with paddle fitting on stand mixer until pale and creamy

Add icing sugar, honey and vanilla on low speed until amalgamated.

Sandwich the cakes together with a layer of icing and spread the remainder on the top. We like to decorate our cakes with seasonal edible wildflowers (such as nasturtiums) and a sprinkle of raw bee pollen.

As an alternative to buttercream icing, simply make the cake in a single 24cm Springform tin, prick the surface of the cake and pour over our simple, sticky and delicious honey butter drizzle.

Honey butter drizzle

30g Northumberland Honey Co runny honey

30g unsalted butter

Gently melt the butter and honey together in a small pan while stirring.