This moist honey cake has fantastic taste and a tremendous, tender crumb. You will 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 so forth.
- Butter: We use unsalted butter since we use salt within the recipe. It should not be utterly tender, 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 tender, tender crumb. See Notes for those who want a substitute
- Baking Powder: To offer the cake elevate
- Salt to reinforce the flavour and stability 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 substances, you may 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 â…” 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, progressively add the brown & white sugar and beat till gentle and fluffy for 3 to five minutes.
- Add the eggs one by one, mixing after every till the yolk is included.
- 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 substances. I do three additions of dry, alternating with two additions of moist substances.
- 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 occasions 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 straightforward honey glaze provides a lift of taste and curiosity to our honey pound cake!
After the cake has cooled, this glaze could be utilized with a spoon, or piped by way of 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 straightforward vanilla glaze. It’s a mixture of milk, confectioners sugar, a pinch of salt, and a little bit of honey.
It’s not meant to be eaten by the spoonful as it is extremely candy, however on a slice of cake, a drizzle of this glaze is ideal!
Sure! This honey pound cake freezes superbly. Whether or not you’re baking prematurely, or saving leftover cake for one more time, merely wrap the cake tightly in plastic wrap, adopted by foil. You’ll be able to 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 following 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’d take into account this a pound cake. It has related measurements to our different favourite pound muffins. It’s primarily based partly on our favourite Buttermilk Pound Cake recipe!
The crumb is velvet tender and really tremendous. 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 due to this fact produces much less gluten. This additionally contributes to the cake being further moist and tender.
No, this cake shall be scrumptious it doesn’t matter what sort of honey you employ!
Extra Pound Truffles to Attempt
We simply love pound muffins and bundt muffins! Along with right now’s honey pound cake, do not miss these different go-to recipes!
Benefit from the Recipe!
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- 1 ½ cups (339g) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cups (200g) sugar
- 1 ½ cups (278g) brown sugar (We used gentle brown sugar)
- 5 giant eggs room temperature (place in a bowl of heat water for five minutes to hurry up the method).
- 3 cups (342g) cake flour (Not self rising. We use Swan’s Down, bleached)
- ½ teaspoon (2g) baking powder
- ½ teaspoon (3g) salt
- 1½ teaspoons cinnamon
- ¾ cup (176g) buttermilk
- ½ cup honey (any number of honey will work)
Straightforward Honey Glaze
- 1 cup confectioners sugar measure then sift
- 2 tablespoons honey add further as wanted in small increments
- 2 tablespoons milk
- pinch of salt
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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, progressively add the brown & white sugar and beat till gentle and fluffy for 3 to five minutes.
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Add the eggs one by one, mixing after every till the yolk is included.
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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 substances. I do three additions of dry, alternating with two additions of moist substances.
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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 occasions 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 may spoon the glaze over the cake, or for extra management, you may spoon it right into a disposable piping bag with the tip snipped away.
Watch out to not overfill your pan if you’re utilizing a smaller bundt pan. Filling the pan not more than â…” full is a common rule of thumb.
