Gluten Free Honey Cake - Coeliac Sanctuary

https://www.coeliacsanctuary.co.uk/recipe/gluten-free-honey-cake

Posted On: 15th April 2015

I love honey. I could eat it all day if you let me, with it's rich flavour and stickiness. If you can get local honey, even better, you will find the taste is much better than the ones commercially available. In this gluten free cake, honey gives it a rich, sweet flavour and makes the cake lovely and moist. If you wish you could flavour the icing different so it isn't completely honey, for example flavour with rose or lavender to give a floral icing.

Ingredients

Cake
225g sunflower spread
250g runny honey
50g caster sugar
3 large eggs
300g gluten free self raising flour

Icing
2tsp runny honey
40g icing sugar
1tsp water

Preparation Time: 20 Mins
Cooking Time: 45 Mins

This recipe contains

Egg

Method

1. Melt the butter either in the microwave or in a bowl over a pan of water, once all melted beat in the honey and sugar.

2. Leave the honey mix to cool for about half an hour until cool but not cold to prevent the eggs from cooking in the next step. Weigh out the flour into a separate bowl.

3. Beat in one egg then sift in some of the flour, repeat twice more with remaining eggs and flour.

4. Beat the mix together until fairly smooth.

5. Line a square cake pan with baking parchment and preheat oven to gas mark 4/180c. Place the mix in the pan and bake in the oven for around 45-50 mins, a skewer should come out clean when poked into the centre of the cake once done.

6. Once the cake has gone cold, in a small bowl mix together the tablespoon of honey, icing sugar and water until you get a smooth thin paste and drizzle over the top of the cake.

Normal butter or margarine can be used if you don't need the cake to be dairy free

This recipe makes 9 pieces
Nutritional info per slice