Honey Loaf

Cast your mind back to my bread failure post and you'll remember I spoke of a delicious cake that lifted my spirits after the mess I made of my bread.

It's not really a looker and isn't very easy on the eye, but it really does taste delicious, very warming and comforting. The perfect thing to eat at tea time and it was such an easy bake!

The book called it a 'melt and mix cake' and that's exactly what I did!

Melt 275g of clear honey, 225g of unsalted butter and 125g of light muscovado sugar together on a low heat until melted, let this cool and then mix it into 300g of self-raising flour, a pinch of salt and 2tsp of ground ginger, then add three beaten eggs and you're ready to bake!

I would suggest making sure that you have a loaf tin big enough. I assumed my tin had the required 900ml capacity, but it did not and the mixture filled the tin right to the top, almost overflowing! I decided to ignore this fact and forgot that the cake would rise. It overflowed and the mixture baked all down the side of the tin!

Next time I make this cake I will fill the loaf tin two thirds of the way and probably make cupcakes with the leftover mixture. More cake for me!

I cut off all the unsightly bits and flipped the cake so it looked like this:

The cake was then glazed. To make this, bring 3 tbsp of honey and 1 tbsp of water to the boil so it becomes syrupy, then stab the cake with a skewer and pour over the glaze. I guess this makes it a bit drizzle-y.

Icing the loaf came next. 50g cream cheese, 1 tbsp of honey, 165g icing sugar and a few drops of lemon juice were combined to make the most delicious icing. Dare I say it, I think I prefer this cream cheese icing to buttercream icing. It was sweet, but not sickly, and very light. It perfectly complimented the cake without overpowering the flavours. Divine.

Can you tell how in love with this cake I am?

And the best thing is it worked first time! Unlike my bread...

Not much to look at, I couldn't find a way to make this cake photograph well, but hopefully I've made it clear how god damn tasty this was. I want everyone to make this cake so they know where I'm coming from!

This is definitely going to be part of my repertoire now

Becca xo