Honey cake with honey buttercream recipe

Details

• Cuisine: English
• Recipe Type: Cake
• Difficulty: Easy
• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 45 mins
• Serves: 8

Step-by-step

1. Preheat the oven to 180C / 160C fan / Gas mark 4. Grease an 8" / 20cm cake tin and, if it isn't non-stick, line the bottom with baking parchment.
2. Put the butter, honey, sugar and water into a saucepan over a low heat, stirring occasionally, until the butter has melted.
3. Remove from the heat and stir in the eggs, flour and ground cinnamon - give the mixture a quick whisk to remove any small lumps if needed.
4. Pour the mixture into the cake tin and bake for 40-45 minutes until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
5. Leave in the tin for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
6. To make the buttercream, cream together the butter and the icing sugar until fluffy then stir in the honey.
7. Once the cake has cooled, spread a generous layer of icing over it - the quantities above will yield enough icing to ice the top and the sides of the cake but you can just ice the top if you prefer.