Honey Cardamom Cake with Orange Cream
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 cup + 2 tablespoons Sue Bee® Honey
- 3 cups cake flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 cup + 2 tablespoons whole milk
Syrup
- 1/4 cup Sue Bee® honey
- 1/4 cup water
Cream
- 1/4 cup Sue Bee® honey
- 2 cups whipping cream
- 1 tablespoon orange juice concentrate
- Confectionary sugar
Directions
- Preheat oven to 325 F.
- Spray 13 x 9 inch pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- In medium bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, cardamom, baking soda and 1/2 tsp. salt.
- In a large bowl, beat 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons Sue Bee® honey and butter at medium speed for 2 minutes.
- Add eggs one at a time, beating 1 minute after each addition.
- Add dry ingredients alternately with milk, beginning and ending with dry ingredients.
- Spread evenly in pan.
- Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until tooth pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, stir together syrup ingredients.
- With wooden skewer, poke holes in cake, poking through to the bottom of the pan.
- Brush cake with syrup.
- Cool completely.
- In medium bowl, beat cream at medium high speed until soft peaks form.
- Add 1/4 cup Sue Bee® honey and orange concentrate beating just until blended.
- Serve cake with cream.
- Store in refrigerator.