The texture is firm, something in between a cake and a bread and the spice flavor is quite pungent so it might not be everybody’s cup of tea - you can always adjust the spices quantities to your taste.
A funny fact about these little treats is that in Brazil, many women make them to sell in offices as a way to complement the family income. Everybody knows one "Tia do Pão de Mel" (Very Freely translated: Honey Bread Lady).
Adding two eggs to the batter will make it more “cake like” but I advise you to stick to the original recipe first (another one of my grandmother's recipe by the way).
Enjoy it!
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Nana Wanda Honey Cake
Yields: About 16 generous Slices | Time: 30min | Cost: $ | Difficulty: Easy
Author: Nana Wanda
Ingredients
For the Cake
For the Cake
Ingredients
For the Cake
- 1 cup caster Sugar
- 1 cup honey
- 1 cup warm milk
- 3 cups plain white flour
- 1 teaspoon bicarb soda
- 1 tablespoon powdered Cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon powdered cloves
- ½ teaspoon grounded nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon instant coffee powder
- 3 tablespoons softened butter,
- 200g milk chocolate chopped
- 30g of vegetable shortening (copha or crisco).
For the Cake
- Pre heat the oven to 180C.
- Grease and sprinkle flour in a 33x23cm tin
- Dissolve the coffee in the warm milk.
- In a large bowl combine all ingredients: first sugar and butter then all the rest leaving the bi-carb to the end.
- Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin
- Bake for around 30 min, to check whether the cake is done insert a skewer into the center and it should come out clean,
- Put the Chocolate in a glass bowl.
- Put the bowl in the microwave and leave it for 1 min.
- Remove the bowl from the microwave, add the vegetable shortening and stir.
- Put in the microwave for 30 seconds more. Stir well and if there are still pieces not melted, put it back in the microwave for 30 seconds more,
- Once the cake is cool, cover it with the chocolate mixture.
- Leave it to cool down and when the chocolate is set cut the cake in squares.
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ReplyDeletexo Marez
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Thank you Marez. x Rachel
DeleteMy mother tasted the French version of this cake at a gourmet store, and I've always wanted to make one since then! Yours looks great!
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty easy too :-) Let me know when you make it. x Rach
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