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Melt and Mix Honey Cake
« on: September 05, 2013, 07:54:13 am »
This is the perfect cake for any occasion and it takes longer to collect the ingredients than it does to make the batter! I converted it from an old Donna Hay recipe and the heroes of this cake are the honey and the sour cream; the honey gives it such a deliciously sweet taste and the sour cream makes it light and fluffy as a cloud.

Ingredients

165g raw sugar
 
155g butter
 
3 eggs
 
125g  honey
 
180g sour cream
 
260g self-raising  flour

How to

1.Preheat oven to 180°C / 160C fan forced.
2.Place sugar  in the TM bowl and mill for 3 seconds on speed 10. Set aside.
 3.Place butter into TM bowl and melt for 3 minutes at 60C on speed 1. Check that the butter is completely melted, if not, melt for a further 30 seconds.
 4.Add the eggs, honey and sour cream and mix on speed 5 for 5 seconds.
 5.Add the flour and sugar and mix on speed 5 for 10 seconds. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and if necessary, mix for another 5 – 10 seconds on speed 5,  until the batter is nice and smooth.
 6.Pour mixture into a bundt tin and bake for 30 minutes.
 7.Serve as is with a nice cup of tea, or drizzle with  warm honey and serve with some thick cream for a decadent dessert.
 
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For a beautiful bundt – make sure the bundt tin is really well-greased and lightly flour the tin before pouring the mixture in.

It looks more beautiful on the blog at http://www.theannoyedthyroid.com/2013/09/05/thermomix-melt-and-mix-honey-cake/

Members comments
Denzelmum - Loooooove this cake. Made this to take to the crowd and gone in no time. Guess what - I'm baking this for the second time this evening (DS birthday party tomorrow). Thank you so much TAT!

jo nz - I've just made this in muffin tins - YUM! Thanks.

snappy - Delicious cake!  Reminds me a lot of the famous Golden Syrup cake from this forum. I used spelt flour, rapadura and coconut butter (I'm trying to reduce the white flour/sugar in lunch boxes) and it was really tasty - boys loved it!

mab19 - I made this yesterday to take out to the family and everyone loved it.   Was told to put it in the make again folder.

Kimmyh - Made this today with lots of help from DS4. Can't believe how quick and easy this is. Used a standard ring tin with no problems. Great cake and really nice served warmed with cream. Thanks tat for a great make again and again cake.

Thermesa - made 12 regular cupcakes and 24 mini cupcakes and plenty left to lick from the bowl. The batter is Delish!

cookie1 - You are so right about the batter Kimmy, it is delicious. The cake tastes lovely too, but guess who didn't grease the bundt tin enough?

CC - The recipe cooked perfectly in my honeycomb cake tin. I brushed all the nooks and crannies with cake release. Left it to cool in the tin for five minutes before turning it out onto a cake rack. Uni has a recipe here.








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Re: Melt and Mix Honey Cake
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2013, 07:57:16 am »
It looks lovely and who could resist when it is as fluffy as a cloud.  ;)
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Re: Melt and Mix Honey Cake
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2013, 12:40:14 pm »
Sounds yummy. Another great Donna Hay conversion TAT.

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Re: Melt and Mix Honey Cake
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2013, 12:40:39 pm »
It looks lovely and who could resist when it is as fluffy as a cloud.  ;)
It's pretty hard to resist, I have to say! It's so easy and so delicious, I have made about 3 so far this week, all in the name of recipe testing!  ;D Practice makes perfect!
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Re: Melt and Mix Honey Cake
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2013, 12:41:53 pm »
Sounds yummy. Another great Donna Hay conversion TAT.
Kimmyh, this one is  a corker. I love melt and mix cakes because I am never organised enough to have soft butter on hand! Good old, Donna!  ;D
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Re: Melt and Mix Honey Cake
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2013, 09:18:59 am »
Loooooove this cake. Made this to take to the crowd and gone in no time. Guess what - I'm baking this for the second time this evening (DS birthday party tomorrow). Thank you so much TAT!
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Re: Melt and Mix Honey Cake
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2013, 09:40:09 am »
Loooooove this cake. Made this to take to the crowd and gone in no time. Guess what - I'm baking this for the second time this evening (DS birthday party tomorrow). Thank you so much TAT!
My pleasure! It's a corker, isn't it? I'm about to make my fourth in a week! Any excuse, will do! So pleased your crowd loved it as much as mine did!  ;D
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Re: Melt and Mix Honey Cake
« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2013, 02:40:52 am »
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Re: Melt and Mix Honey Cake
« Reply #8 on: September 09, 2013, 05:48:48 am »
I've just made this in muffin tins - YUM!
Thanks.
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Re: Melt and Mix Honey Cake
« Reply #9 on: September 09, 2013, 06:20:17 am »
I've just made this in muffin tins - YUM!
Thanks.
I was wondering the other day how this would work in muffin form... all good, I hope! I must try!
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Re: Melt and Mix Honey Cake
« Reply #10 on: September 09, 2013, 07:33:11 am »
Well, I don't have anything to compare, but seems pretty good  ;D
I may just have to make as a cake and compare the results.  Quite a sacrifice...  ;)

DD is not a cake/muffin lover, but is mad about honey, so tomorrow's lunchbox will be a bit of a test. Will let you know what Miss Fussypants has to say about it.
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Re: Melt and Mix Honey Cake
« Reply #11 on: September 09, 2013, 09:39:34 am »
Delicious cake!  Reminds me a lot of the famous Golden Syrup cake from this forum.

I used spelt flour, rapadura and coconut butter (I'm trying to reduce the white flour/sugar in lunch boxes) and it was really tasty - boys loved it!

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Re: Melt and Mix Honey Cake
« Reply #12 on: September 09, 2013, 10:41:25 am »
I made this yesterday to take out to the family and everyone loved it.   Was told to put it in the make again folder :)
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« Reply #13 on: September 09, 2013, 12:28:53 pm »
That's a very positive sign that it was well liked.  :D
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Re: Melt and Mix Honey Cake
« Reply #14 on: September 09, 2013, 12:30:27 pm »
I took one to a family party too, and it was loved by all. I think it has reappeared in some lunchboxes today, too!
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