Despite the warming days I still love to bake in summer, and my seasonal cake recipe for this month is a summer honey cake-a celebration of the busy bees, the golden hues and the sweetest of the month.
Honey Cake Recipe
300g gf self rasing flour
3 eggs
100g dark muscovado sugar
225g butter
250g runny honey
Set an oven at 140C or gas mark 3
In a pan melt the butter then add in the honey and sugar, stir well unril the sugar has melted. Do not boil. Remove from the heat.
In a large bowl beat the eggs and honey mixture together. Sift in the GF flour and fold the flour in. Pour into a lined 20cm cake tin and bake for 1 hour until the cake is fully cooked.
The cake can be glazed with warm honey and decorated with calendula flowers and little sugar paste bees. Nigella Lawson also has a delicious recipe for a chocolate honey cake which you can find for free on her website.