A Date with Honey Cake

With exams and uni all done for the year it is time to cook.

I found this recipe on the side of a wholemeal self-raising packet from the Country Women's Association of NSW and thought hey...why not.

2 1/4 cups wholemeal self raising flour

1 cup honey

1 cup water

1 Tbs golden syrup

30g butter

250g chopped dates

3/4 cup chopped walnuts

1/4 chopped almonds

1 tsp ground ginger

1/2 tsp mixed spice

I also added 3 Tbs of chia seeds just for fun.

Shortened version of instructions

Preheat oven 180 degrees. Combine honey, water, golden syrup and butter in saucepan to melt butter (do no boil), leave to cool. Stir dates and nuts into honey mixture and fold in sifted dry ingredients. Pour into prepared bake tin (19cm square deep or I did 12 muffins instead), bake for 50 minutes (less for muffins). May be iced with lemon icing.

These are super sweet (obviously with that much honey) so I am going to try with some cream cheese lemon icing with no icing sugar.

Thanks C.W.A yet another recipe that I will learn to tweak to suit my own tastes