TWD BCM Rewind: Spiced Honey Cake

January 31, 2017 at 12:01 am | Posted in BCM, breakfast things, cakes & tortes, groups, muffins/quick breads, simple cakes, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 4 Comments
Tags: baking, cake

I nominated Spiced Honey Cake a couple of times, and then when it was chosen, I skipped it! Nice, right? I will admit to feeling guilty about that, but now Rewind Week is here to redeem me. So, here it is…

This might not be what you have in mind when you hear the word “cake.” It’s a take on pain d’epices, and is more like a quick bread than a moist, spongey cake. Dorie flavors it with honey (obvi) and also an orange/spice infusion. She uses lavender, Sichuan peppercorns and fresh ginger as her spices, but when I rooted through the cupboard (a chore, let me assure you), I saw don’t have the lavender or the peppercorns. I do have a really nice chai mix with lots of coarse bits of black pepper, ginger, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon and fennel. It doesn’t contain any actually tea leaves, just the spices, so I thought it sounded like a perfect choice to go with the orange and honey flavors, as well as the almonds and dried cherries. Because the cake is purposefully on the dry side, it toasts up really nicely (I will thank my fellow TWDers who made the recipe on-schedule for pointing this out to me!). In fact, it’s better as cake toast than as non-toast. And it’s perfect with tea or coffee, so I’m glad to have gotten around to making it!

For the recipe, see Baking Chez Moi by Dorie Greenspan. Don’t forget to check out the rest of the TWD Blogroll to see what other folks caught up on this week!

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Looks great! Glad you finally had a chance to make it.

Comment by Sarah B.— January 31, 2017 #

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Love your use of the chai spices here – looks like a natural pairing!

Comment by saffronandhoney— January 31, 2017 #

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Your cake looks good. It is unusual, but I enjoyed it.

Comment by Cakelaw— January 31, 2017 #

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Murphy’s law on the baking assignments. We really enjoyed this one despite its dryness. Looking forward to more baking.

Comment by Diane Zwang— January 31, 2017 #

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