This Devonshire Honey Cake is so delicious with the flavour of honey coming through on every bite that you enjoy your tea time even more. The bonus is that it is so easy to make that even novice bakers can get an excellent result with this recipe.
This month I had to cook with a star ingredient whose English name began with H for the A to Z Challenge. Since honey is among my favourite ingredients, I was pretty certain I would make a dish that featured it prominently. One the dishes that caught my eye during my research was this Devonshire Honey Cake that was featured in the BBC Good Food website.
I was intrigued by this recipe because it seemed very easy to make and needed very few ingredients. Also, it did not involve any complex techniques and so it seemed to be just the recipe to try given how pressed for time I am.
The cake turned out very well and this is a keeper of a recipe.
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Recipe for Devonshire Honey Cake
Recipe Source: BBC Good Food website
Preparation Time: 30 mins
Baking Time: 60 Minutes
Makes: 1 x 8″ cake (8 to 10 slices)
Ingredients
- For the Cake
- Maida, Plain Flour – 300 gms
- Baking Powder – 15 gms (2.5 tsp)
- Salt – 1/2 tsp(Omit if you are using salted butter)
- Honey – 250 gms
- Demerara Sugar – 100 gms
- Unsalted Butter – 225 gms
- Eggs – 3
- For the Honey Glaze
- 2 tbsp Honey
Method to Make Devonshire Honey Cake
- The Preparations
- Prepare an 8″ round cake pan by buttering it lightly and then lining it with parchment paper.
- Preheat an oven to 160 C.
- Prepare an 8″ round cake pan by buttering it lightly and then lining it with parchment paper.
- Making the Cake Batter
- Sieve the flour, baking powder, and salt together. Set aside. Remember to omit the salt if you are using salted butter.
- To a heavy bottomed vessel, add the honey, butter, and sugar.
- Over low flame, heat the mix till the butter and sugar melt. Stir constantly.
- When the sugar and butter have melted, take the mix off the heat and let it cool.
- Beat 3 eggs. Set aside.
- When the honey-sugar-butter mix cools, add the beatens eggs and immediately mix well. The honey-sugar-butter mix must be cool or the eggs will cook in the mix.
- Add the sifted flour and mix well to form a smooth batter.
- Baking the Cake
- Pour the batter into the lined cake pan.
- Bake for 60 minutes at 160 C or till the skewer comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven.
- Pour the batter into the lined cake pan.
- Applying the Glaze (While the Cake is Still Warm)
- Warm 2 tbsp honey. I found that I could apply honey directly to the cake while it was still warm.
- Use a brush to quickly apply the glaze to the still-warm cake.
- Serve the cake with some hot tea.
- Store the Devonshire Honey Cake in an airtight tin.
Devonshire Honey Cake
Equipment
- Oven
Ingredients
- 300 gms Maida, Plain Flour
- 15 gms Baking Powder (2.5 tsps)
- 1/2 tsp Salt (Omit if you are using salted butter)
- 250 gms Honey
- 100 gms Demerara Sugar
- 225 gms Unsalted Butter
- 3 Eggs
- 2 tbsp Honey
Instructions
- Butter and line an 8" pan with parchment paper.
- Preheat an oven to 160C.
- Sieve the flour, baking powder, and salt together. Set aside.
- To a heavy bottomed vessel, add the honey, butter, and sugar.
- Over low flame, heat the mix till the butter and sugar melt.
- Take off the heat and let it cool. This is to ensure that the eggs do not cook in the hot mix.
- In the meantime, beat 3 eggs.
- When the honey-sugar-butter mix cools, add the beatens eggs and mix well.
- Add the flour and mix well to ensure there are no clumps.
- Transfer the batter to the lined cake pan.
- Bake for 60 minutes at 160 C or till the skewer comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven.
- Warm 2 tbsp honey.
- Use a brush to quickly apply the glaze to the still-warm cake.
- Store the Devonshire Honey Cake in an airtight tin.
Ooh, the cake looks so moist and delicious! What a treat it would be to eat this hot, straight out of the oven!
Great recipe. I’d love to try this out some time.
That sounds like a heavily honey flavored butter cake! I am drooling over here… Pinning this up…
What an amazing looking cake – so spiked up with honey flavor… I have already pinned this and can’t wait to try!
The cake looks wow and it is tempting me to bake this. I should work on the eggless version of this delicious cake.
So this is how you celebrated the World Cup Victory by baking a cake. Haha. Jokes apart – How easy it is to put together with basic ingredients. Loved the generous use of honey in the recipe, including that shiny glaze on top. This is one treat that is hard to resist!
Aruna, your cake has brought back such fond memories. My chachi and I would always try out a new recipe every Saturday. I remember once she brought a Hamlyn Cookery Book from our shop, copied the recipe for Devonshire Honey cake and we baked it. Returned the book to the shop, cake devoured by our big family. Will have to bake it again one day. Will not need to search for a recipe as I’ve got yours to refer to. The cake looks so moist and perfectly baked.
Wow cake looks so soft, moist, delicious and gorgeous. Never tried honey glaze on the cake. Looks beautiful. I would love to try it soon. Great share.
Devonshire honey cake is a totally new name for me. But the cake looks so good and moist.
Thank you, Ankita.
This is one healthy and yummy bake and the texture of the cake is just spot on have to try your lovely recipe soon thanks for sharing.
Thank you. You will enjoy the cake.
Cake looks GORGEOUS!! The recipe sounds so simple and easy to make with very basic ingredients though the name sounds fancy. Love the click too…
Thank you. Yes, it was very easy to make and delicious.
That is one heavenly looking cake. Love the texture through the cut section, Aruna.
I saw this too, perhaps on the same website Aruna , but backed out due to too many eggs in the recipe. This is a perfect cake for celebrations, am sure 🙂 very gorgeous….
Beautifully baked honey cake and the recipe is really nice and easy to assemble. This is something i want to have whenever we are meeting. Perfectly baked !
I would love to bake for you, Paarul.
Loved the texture of this honey cake Aruna ! Simple recipe with easily available ingredients . Bookmarking the recipe . I will try an eggless version of your cake hopefully.
This is looking absolutely delicious.Feel like grabbing a slice right off the screen. Super simple recipe. Awesome Share!!
Cake is so beautifully baked!! It has the perfect crumb, the shiny and smooth top and moist.Loved the use of honey in it. So simple recipe with easily available ingredients.
Thank you. How easy it is to make and how delicious it is are major plus points.
Devonshire Honey Cake looks much moist and delicious too Aruna ! so much healthy and yummy baked goodies 🙂
Wow ! I loved the recipe such a soft n delicious goodness of cake needs some Tea with cucumber sandwiches. I can see myself in a very English sounding monologue. 🙂
I love the cake a lot. In fact I am tempted to try it out immediately.
Thank you for the fulsome praise, Milady. 🙂