1 c Brown sugar
3 tb Sugar
2 lg Eggs
250 ml Beehive Co honey of your
-choice*
1 tb Instant coffee
1 ts Ground cinnamon
1/2 ts Nutmeg
1/2 ts Ground cloves
2 c Self raising flour
3 ts Baking powder
100 g Flaked or slivered almonds
2 tb Apricot jam
Preheat the oven to 180c.
Beat the brown sugar, white sugar and eggs together until thick and pale in
colour. Add the honey and coffee and continue to mix on slow speed until
incorporated.
Mix the flour and baking powder together then fold the flour and spices
into the egg mixture and mix well, adding half the slivered or flaked
almonds and mixing once more to distribute.
Spoon the batter into a buttered and floured 20cm. X 20cm. square cake tin
then sprinkle the remaining flaked almonds on top.
Bake at 170c. for 45 minutes until “springy” when gently pressed in the
centre.
Allow the cake to cool in the tin for ten minutes then remove from the tin.
Warm the apricot jam and brush over the cake.
Yields
1 servings