Honey Cakes
From tuilelaith 15 years ago
- 45 minutes to make
- Serves 12
This is a remake of a pass down recipe, that I have tried to recreate do to lossing it somewhere in az. It is not yet right, but it is getting closer. I hate when I lose something this important to myself from my Grandma. Read more Her Grandmother came from Ireland and she brought the recipe with her. See less
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups flour shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda shopping list
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder shopping list
- 1 1/4 teaspoons allspice shopping list
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg shopping list
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger shopping list
- 4 eggs, beaten; of course freah is best so I found a place to buy them on a farm shopping list
- 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar, I use raw sugar shopping list
- 1/2 cup safflower oil, any oil will do, the closer to the source you can get the better shopping list
- 1 cup raw honey, i get this delievered, but I bet you could find it at a farmers market shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- Grease and flour a 9x13 baking pan.
- Combine all ingredients in a large bowl, stirring well.
- Pour into pan, and bake for 45 minutes.
- About 30 minutes in I open the ove and sprinkle just a touch of raw sugar on top to give it a finished look.
- Finish cooking it.
- Serve unfrosted.
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- Notes: Yield: 1 cake
- Use for: Imbolc
- If cut into twelve equal pieces, each piece has approximately 270 calories.
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- I had at one time cresent moon shaped cake pans. I had 13 of them. My origianl recipe fit perfect into these. Lost those too in the van. They too were my Grandmothers, I have no idea where to find replacements. sigh
The Rating
Reviewed by 3 people-
High "5" for this lovely Honey Cake recipe!
lor
in Toronto loved it
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Family recipes are so important and I am so tickled that you are working on this and chose to share it with us. I have some family recipes like that, too - we keep trying to make it match our memories of it when grandma was alive and wowing the crow...more
lunasea
in Orlando loved it
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This is not a site where you can purchase another set of crescent pans, but I found it very interesting for your recipe, and I hope you will also like it.
http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=639
It could work, right?
deliathecrone
in Johnston loved it
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