Eggless Honey Cake

Honey cake that I remember eating for only very few times from local Indian bakery –

So I was thinking to try this honey cake for few years now and finally saw a post in some blog and loved it. I realised honey cake is about the syrup, jam and coconut on the top. You can bake your favorite basic vanilla cake and make this honey cake too. I chose orange cake as my kid like orange flavoured cake. When I finished making this cake and tasted it, I was so happy that I could finally eat my favorite cake, that too homemade.

Ingredients :

All purpose flour......... 1 1/4 cup

Condensed milk......... 1 cup

Oil.......... 1/2 cup

Orange juice.......... 1/2 cup

Sugar........ 3 tbsp

Baking powder......... 1 tsp

Baking soda.......... 1/2 tsp

Orange zest ......... 1/2 tsp

Vinegar............... 1 tsp

Vanilla essence............ 1 tsp

Honey Syrup:

Warm water........ 1/2 cup

Sugar......... 2 tbsp

Honey........... 1/4 cup

Topping:

Mix Fruit Jam..... 4 tbsp

Method : 

• Pre heat the oven to 180 deg C.
• In another bowl, mix condensed milk, orange juice, oil, sugar, vanilla essence.
• Add orange zest (orange skin part, grated) and mix.
• Now finally add all purpose flour, sieve the flour andamix well. 
• Now add vinegar and mix well.
• Transfer to a baking tray ( I used 8 inch square tin) greased with oil and dusted with flour. On base of tin i have lined with butter paper. 
• Bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
•  Cool down for 10 mins and invert over a wire rack to cool down completely. 
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• Mean while prepare sugar syrup with warm water, and now add honey and sugar and mix until sugar dissolves completely.
• Over the flat surface of the cake, pour the prepared syrup generously so that the cake absorbs the syrup.
• Over this, spread the jam to form a thin layer. Sprinkle desiccated coconut all over the surface to cover up the jam.
• Now Trim the sides. Cut into desired shape and serve.

Notes:

• Add honey only to luke warm sugar syrup.
• Since this cake is super moist because of syrup, jam, this has to be consumed within 2 –3 days (kept inside fridge)
• After slicing the cake, you can also pour the syrup so that the sides of the cakes also get generous syrup.