HONEY & LEMON CAKE

This is a very simple and delicious cake, with a hint of lemon and a layer of honey semolina pudding. Perfect for any occasion and time of the year :)

Ingredients for the cake :

• 180 g soft butter
• 130 g sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 tbsp honey
• 150 g cake flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 40 ml milk
• 1 tsp lemon extract or 1 tbsp lemon zest
• pinch of salt

Beat the butter with sugar untill creamy consistancy. Start adding one egg yolk at a time, mixing well inbetween. Follow the last egg yolk with honey and lemon extract/zest and mix well. Sieve in the flour and baking powder and mix well. Add room temperature milk and mix till combined. Beat the egg whites with salt till stiff and fold into the mixture.

Grease and line the bottom of a 20 cm baking pan. Bake at 170°C (338°F) for one hour or untill the scewert comes out clean.

Ingredients for the semolina pudding :

• 400 ml milk
• 4 tbsp semolina
• 2tbsp honey

Place half of the milk in a sauce pan and bring to simmer. Mix the semolina with the other half of cold milk. Start adding the semolina tbsp by tbsp to the simmering milk, mixing constantly. Take the mixture off the heat when it becomes thick. Mix in the honey and cool down to room temperature.

Cut the cake in half and spread the semolina pudding inbetween the layers.

I have cut the cake into a hexagon shape covered it in lemon buttercream and poked through holes to make the cake look more like a honey comb. A drizzle of honey at the top made it look even more beautiful :)