Traditional Welsh Honey Cake
Delicious light honey cake with cinnamon, based on a traditional Welsh recipe. Easy cake recipe to make - perfect with a coffee or lemon tea.
Equipment
- 1 large (2lb) cake loaf tin or two smaller one
Ingredients
- 125 g honey
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
- 125 g brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 225 g self-raising flour
- 1/2 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
- 125 g butter
- 4 table spoons of milk
Instructions
- Preaheat the oven to about 200C. Mix together the flour, cinnamon and bicarbonate of soda.
- Cream the butter and sugar.
- Separate the egg yolk from the egg white. Beat the yolk into the sugar and butter mixture and then gradually add the honey.
- Stir in the flour with some milk (you don't have to use up all 4 table spoons of milk, but that's what we used for our batch) and bled all together lightly.
- Beat the egg white untill it reaches stiff peaks and fold gently into the mixture.
- Spoon into your cake tins and springle a bit of caster sugar on the top.
- Bake for abour 20-25 minutes (for 2 small cakes or slightly longer if you are using a large cake tin). If you see your cake browning too quickly, just lower the temperature slightly.
- Leave to cool down on a cooling rack.