Honey Cake

One of the traditions in our home  is to bake  honey cake for Christmas  I did that yesterday.
Here is the recipe:

500 g honey	Honey and butter are melted together. Baking soda is stirred in the lukewarm mixture. Sugar and chopped bitter orange peel  is put in my Bamix Dry & Wet Processor and blended until the peel is chopped very finely.  Stir t in all the  ingredients. Stir thoroughly. Cover the oven pan with  baking paper and pour the dough in the pan. Bake at 150 degrees for ½ hour. Let cool, cut to make two layers and spread the marmalade on one layer. (Apricot, mirabelle or plum marmalade is fine). Add the second layer and brush with melted coating chocolate. Suitable for freezing.
125 g butter
2 tbsp baking soda
½ tsp cinnamon
½ tsp ground cloves
2 tbsp bitter orange peel or pickled orange peel
1½ dl sugar
3 eggs
10½ dl flour
2-3 dl marmalade
125 g dark cooking chocolade

When baking and cooling is done, the cake is divided into two layers, and the marmalade is spread all over one of the layers .

This year I have used a plum marmalade made on some small blue plums we have in the garden. What kind of plums I do not know because they were already here, when we bought the house.

Now the cakes have been brushed with melted chocolate - then left to cool - and when the chocolate has stiffened, I put them in bags and freeze. A small amount however, is left for tastings 😆

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