Honey cake is the perfect cake to make when you want something sweet but you don’t want to go through all the difficult steps in making a cake. With roots in Eastern European Jewish cuisine as well as traditional Russian, this cake has been around for many years, but continues to be a delicious baked good time after time. If you need a go-to recipe that is impressive, moist, and something more than unique, make this honey cake!
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F and grease and flour a cake pan.
- In a bowl, sift together 2 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, and 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda, salt, allspice, cloves, and nutmeg.
- Wash and zest an orange until you have 2 tablespoons worth of zest. Using an organic orange for this is recommended.
- In a separate and larger bowl, mix together 4 eggs, 1 cup of honey, 1/2 oil, 1 cup of sugar, and the orange zest.
- With an electric hand mixer or a sturdy whisk, alternately add in the dry flour mixture and 1 cup of orange juice to the wet ingredients. Continue until all the dry ingredients are gone.
- Bake for 40-50 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.
