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Special occasions deserve unusual dishes! It was our anniversary and wanted to make it memorable by baking an eggless cake which I had never tried before. I had just come across a post by a fellow blogger about "honey cake"! It took me back to my childhood days, I remember tasting honey cakes in Bangalore bakeries. I just could not resist trying to recreate this cake. Made slight changes to make it eggless and tweaked with my own measures, it turned out great!! Hope you all try and enjoy it.
Ingredients: for the batter:
Butter : 1/2 cup and 2 tbsp.
Sugar : 1/2 cup.
Baking powder :1 tsp.
All purpose flour : 1 cup.
Flax powder : 2 tbsp.
Milk : 1/2 cup.
Vanilla extract : few drops.
For the honey syrup:
Sugar : 2 tsp .
Honey : 2-3 tbsp .
Water : 1-2 tsp.
For topping:
Mixed fruit jam.
Desiccated coconut / dry grated coconut.
Method:
Start by preheating the oven at 350 degree Fahrenheit.
Keep the cake pan greased and ready.
For dry ingredients - Sift the baking powder with the flour, to make sure they are evenly distributed and have no lumps.
Soak the ground flax seeds with little water, leaving it for few minutes. It forms a gooey mixture, resembling an egg mixture.
Next, beat the butter with sugar, till they are fluffy. Then add the flax mixture followed by vanilla extract.
Slowly incorporate the dry ingredients and mix well, adding required quantity of milk.
The cake batter should be think, which has pouring consistency.
Pour the batter into a greased cake pan, and bake for 35- 40 minutes. Check for done, by inserting a tooth pick.
Next, make the honey syrup by boiling water, sugar, and honey in a sauce pan till the mixture forms a syrup.
Once the cake is done, prick the cake top with tooth pick, so the honey syrup is absorbed well by the cake.
Pour the honey syrup on top of the cake as required making sure it is distributed evenly.
Let it cool down completely.
For the jam topping; warm the jam and sugar with little water/ infact use the same sauce pan to melt the jam to form a smooth spread.
Finally spread the warm jam mixture on the cake and sprinkle desiccated coconut for decoration.
Let the cake sit for couple of hours before tasting. It gets better as it sits.
Enjoy!!!!
Note: quantity of ingredients for sweetness can vary as required.
Special occasions deserve unusual dishes! It was our anniversary and wanted to make it memorable by baking an eggless cake which I had never tried before. I had just come across a post by a fellow blogger about "honey cake"! It took me back to my childhood days, I remember tasting honey cakes in Bangalore bakeries. I just could not resist trying to recreate this cake. Made slight changes to make it eggless and tweaked with my own measures, it turned out great!! Hope you all try and enjoy it.
Ingredients: for the batter:
Butter : 1/2 cup and 2 tbsp.
Sugar : 1/2 cup.
Baking powder :1 tsp.
All purpose flour : 1 cup.
Flax powder : 2 tbsp.
Milk : 1/2 cup.
Vanilla extract : few drops.
For the honey syrup:
Sugar : 2 tsp .
Honey : 2-3 tbsp .
Water : 1-2 tsp.
For topping:
Mixed fruit jam.
Desiccated coconut / dry grated coconut.
Method:
Start by preheating the oven at 350 degree Fahrenheit.
Keep the cake pan greased and ready.
For dry ingredients - Sift the baking powder with the flour, to make sure they are evenly distributed and have no lumps.
Soak the ground flax seeds with little water, leaving it for few minutes. It forms a gooey mixture, resembling an egg mixture.
Next, beat the butter with sugar, till they are fluffy. Then add the flax mixture followed by vanilla extract.
Slowly incorporate the dry ingredients and mix well, adding required quantity of milk.
The cake batter should be think, which has pouring consistency.
Pour the batter into a greased cake pan, and bake for 35- 40 minutes. Check for done, by inserting a tooth pick.
Next, make the honey syrup by boiling water, sugar, and honey in a sauce pan till the mixture forms a syrup.
Once the cake is done, prick the cake top with tooth pick, so the honey syrup is absorbed well by the cake.
Pour the honey syrup on top of the cake as required making sure it is distributed evenly.
Let it cool down completely.
For the jam topping; warm the jam and sugar with little water/ infact use the same sauce pan to melt the jam to form a smooth spread.
Finally spread the warm jam mixture on the cake and sprinkle desiccated coconut for decoration.
Let the cake sit for couple of hours before tasting. It gets better as it sits.
Enjoy!!!!
Note: quantity of ingredients for sweetness can vary as required.
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