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Hanukkah Honey Cake Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Lor / All my dishes 7 months, 3 weeks ago I am not Jewish but my great-grandfather was. It's really fascinating when you discover your family heritage. My great-grandmother who was a midwife in Ireland was disowned by her family because she married my great-grandfather Abraham, who was stud... More Prep:30m Cook:45m Servings:1214	Lor
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Ingredients

3 eggs

3/4 cup packed brown sugar

3/4 cup vegetable oil or olive oil

1-1/4 cups honey

2/3 cup strong coffee

3 cups all-purpose flour

1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon ground allspice

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg

3/4 cup chopped walnuts

1-1/2 teaspoons grated orange peel

1 teaspoon grated lemon peel

If you like the canned frosting, 2 containers (16 ounces each) vanilla frosting should do the trick

Yellow food coloring

1(13 X 9 inch) cake board, covered, or large tray

Pastry bag and medium writing and star tips

8 small white candles

Directions

Preheat oven to 325°F.

Grease and flour 13 X 9 inch baking pan.

Beat eggs in large bowl at high speed of electric mixer until thick and lemon colored, about 5 minutes.

Beat in brown sugar and oil.

Add honey and coffee; stir well.

Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and spices in small bowl; add to batter and stir well.

Stir in walnuts and grated peels.

Pour into prepared pan.

Bake 40 to 45 minutes until cake is golden and wooden toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.

Cool in pan on wire rack 15 minutes.

Remove from pan to rack; cool.

If cake top is rounded, trim horizontally with long serrated knife. Place cake on prepared cake board.

Frost top and sides of cake with 1 container frosting.

Using a diagram as guide, cut pattern of a Menorah from waxed paper. Trace around pattern with wooden toothpick; remove pattern.

Tint remaining container frosting yellow. To tint frosting, add small amount of desired food coloring; stir well. Slowly add more coloring until frosting is desired shade. Spoon frosting into pastry bag fitted with medium writing tip. Outline menorah pattern with frosting. Using star tip, fill in menorah and pipe decorative border around edge of cake. Insert candles.

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Comments

annieamie 6 months, 2 weeks ago said:
Sounds like a fabulous recipe! Thanks for posting it!

danadooley 2 months ago said:
Very pretty cake. Thanks for sharing, the recipe and your family history :)

silentwriter 1 month, 1 week ago said:
This sounds wonderful and I'd love to try it out on one of my Jewish friends from our Church. You see, I belong to a Unitarian church and they have lots of people with different religiions there. I bet this would be a hit.

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