Miss Beehaven with Hobbit Queen

Honey recipes will be added to this page as they are gathered and tried in my own kitchen.

This first recipe I’ve enjoyed making several times.

 Honey-Apple Cake

If you like Honey and you like apples, you’ll love this cake! It is topped with a honey sauce that can cover the cake as well as be served with the cake and ice cream! Yummy!!!

Honey Sauce:

1 cup brown sugar (make sure firmly packed)

1/2 cup butter

1/4 cup of honey — The average worker honeybee makes about 1/12 teaspoon of honey in its lifetime. 1/4 cup holds 12 teaspoons, so it takes 144 honey bees to make 1/4 cup of honey. Precious stuff!

1/4 cup of milk

Honey-Apple Cake:

1 cup chopped pecans – divided

2 cups sugar

1 cup vegetable oil

1/4 cup honey

3 large eggs

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

3 cups chopped Golden Delicious apples (I’ve used Rome and Granny Smith – All good)

Honey Sauce

Vanilla Ice Cream

 Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350° F.
• Prepare a 12-cup Bundt pan by greasing and flouring. Make sure you dust it lightly. Sprinkle the bottom of the pan with 1/4 cup of pecans. Set aside.
• Beat together the sugar, oil, and honey at medium speed until well blended. A hand mixer works well, but so does a stand mixer. Add the eggs one at a time, beating just until blended.
• Combine the flour, baking soda, salt, ground cinnamon and ground nutmeg. Gradually add this mixture to the sugar mixture, beating at low speed just until blended.
• Stir in the vanilla, remaining 3/4 cup of pecans, and apples.
• Spoon batter over pecans in the pan being careful not to cause the pecans in the pan to clump.
• Bake at 350° F for 55 to 60 minutes.
• Cool cake in pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes.
• Remove cake from pan and place on a wire rake over wax paper.
• Punch holes in cake with a very long toothpick or cake punch. Pour 1/2 cup of the Honey Sauce (see below for how to make)over the warm cake.
• Cool cake prior to serving. OR, heat remaining Honey Sauce and serve with cake and ice cream if you like.

 Honey Sauce Directions:

• Bring all the ingredients to a boil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring constantly; boil, stirring constantly for two (2) minutes. Makes about 1 1/2 cups.

 Source: Family recipe passed down to me in an old cookbook.