To celebrate the first day of Spring and the release of this bee-utiful book – Omar, The Bees And Me – from Owlet Press, we are making a deliciously easy honey cake!
I have so many fond memories of a little dairy farm in Devon, who also produced their own honey. We used to stay there over the summer, and watching the bees buzzing to and fro from their hives and then turning their honeycombs in a barrel to extract the honey was always such a highlight! *That and the sneaky honeycomb sticks I was allowed to have #sugarRUSH.
This honey cake recipe is included in Omar, The Bees And Me. We’ve shared it’s here, with permission of Owlet Press. And, to add to the fun, before making our cake, we listened to the story which has recently been read over on Moon Lane Children’s Books and Toys.
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You will need:
Step one
Preheat your oven to 160 degrees (fan assisted) and prepare your cake tin by either greasing well or lining with baking paper (we lined ours with baking paper).
Step two
In a large bowl, beat the butter until it is soft and creamy. Add in the sugar and mix till creamed together.
Step three
Add the honey, salt, baking powder, flour and eggs into the large bowl, and mix well after each ingredient.
Step four
Pour the mixture into your pre-prepared cake tin and bake for 45 minutes until golden (we needed to bake ours for 1 hour).
Ta-dah! Here’s how our easy honey cake turned out. We decided to top ours with a honey buttercream. To do this, blend 100g butter with 200g icing sugar and then flavour with 1 really good tablespoon of runny honey.
You can save the recipe here by right clicking the below image, courtesy of Owlet Press.
Enjoy!
Omar, The Bees And Me can be ordered online from most good booksellers.
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I have never done much baking with honey, but I understand that it make for a much more moist and delicious treat!
My son is obsessed with honey yet, I wouldn’t have thought of using honey in a cake. It looks yummy and dare I say it would go well with custard! xx #MischiefAndMemories
Thanks Dana, it’s so sweet I don’t think we would have dared to add custard
This recipe sounds delicious – I like honey a lot.
Thank you Jeanne.
I love it when a recipe relates to a book. It makes the baking even more fun! This looks super delicious too. #MischiefAndMemories
Definitely more fun when it was tied in with the book
Ooh I don’t think I’ve ever tried honey cake! The twigs are obsessed with honey, bet they’d love it! #mischiefandmemories
It’s such an easy recipe- a fab one to do with littles x
This looks great. I don’t think that I’ve ever had honey cake to be honest #mischiefandmemories
I think it’s usually with something else, so honey and walnut cake… etc.
I’m not sure I have ever had a honey cake … sounds yummy though, and easy! #mischiefandmemories
It’s very easy 🙂
That honey cake looks amazing. I’ve never tried baking one before. Have pinned and will have to give it a try. Hope it tasted as good as it looked! #MischiefandMemories
Have fun with it Louise and thanks for stopping by x
The book looks cute but that big smile with the cake is most def my favourite thing in this post!! #MischiefandMemories
Hehe! Thanks so much Lydia. The cake was certainly a highlight 🙂
This cake sound entirely delicious and entirely like I’d best not make it as I will eat the lot!! #MischiefAndMemories
Haha! It’s always the way with homemade bakes. Once you start, it’s hard to stop! x
This looks super yummy – & easy which gets the thumbs up from me! #mischiefandmemories
Ahhh thank you!