This is a lazy day honey raisin cake – it’s simple to make, requires only a few ingredients and then you can forget about it for an hour while it bakes. Do your Sunday chores, start a movie, whatever! When it comes out of the oven, enjoy it with a nice cup of tea 🫖
Wishing you all a smooth transition out of Summer mode and into Autumn 🍂
A simple cake recipe for a tea time snack.
- 3/4 cup honey
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract *Can also use a pinch of vanilla bean powder
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 Tbsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 cup raisins
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Preheat oven to 325 F
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Grease and line a 6 or 7" cake pan
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Sift together flour, baking powder and salt, set aside
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Cream together honey and butter until smooth
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Add vanilla
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Mix in eggs one at a time, alternating with sifted flour mixture, mixing until just combined after each addition.
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Toss raisins in a bit of flour
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Stir raisins into cake batter until just combined.
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Pour batter into prepared pan
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Bake for 65-75 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean
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Turn out on a wire rack and let cool completely
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Enjoy with a drizzle of honey
