Honey cake

Preperation time: 5 mins
Cooking time: 50 mins
Serves: 6

Recipe Ingredients

175g clear honey;
150g butter;
85g light muscovado sugar;
2 eggs, lightly beaten;
200g self-raising flour, seived;

For the honey glaze;
50g icing sugar;
1 tbsp clear honey.

Recipe Method

Put the honey, butter and sugar into a large pan. Add 1 tbsp of water and heat mixture until everything is melted. Remove from heat and carefully mix in eggs and flour.

Pour the mixture into a lined and buttered 20cm cake tin. Bake in a preheated oven -180c,fan oven 160c, gas 4, for 40 minutes. The cake should be springy to the touch. Allow to cool in the tin for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.

Whilst cake is still warm make the topping. Mix the icing sugar and honey together with about 1 tbsp hot water. Drizzle over cake.