Honey and almond cake
Ingredients
for 1 cake
| 250 g | butter, soft |
| 150 g | sugar |
| 50 g | forest honey |
| ¼ tsp | salt |
| 4 | eggs |
| 1 dl | milk |
| 250 g | white flour |
| 80 g | ground almonds |
| 2 tsp | baking powder |
| 60 g | flaked almonds |
| 100 g | forest honey |
| ½ dl | water |
| 1 tbsp | lemon juice |
How it's done
Batter
Mix the butter, sugar, honey and salt in a bowl. Add the eggs one at a time. Using the whisk on a mixer, beat until the mixture turns lighter in colour. Pour in the milk, mix. Combine the flour, almonds and baking powder, stir into the mixture. Transfer the batter to the prepared tin. Scatter the flaked almonds on top.
To bake
Approx. 45 mins. in the lower half of an oven preheated to 180 °C. Remove.
Honey syrup
Place the honey and water in a pan, heat up and simmer over a medium heat for approx. 5 mins. Remove the pan from the heat, mix in the lemon juice.
Drizzle
Prick the warm cake firmly with a wooden skewer. Drizzle the honey syrup over the top. Remove the tin frame, slide the cake onto a cooling rack and leave to cool.
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