Honey Cake

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Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cup of milk
  • 1 tablespoon of cinnamon
  • 1/4 tablespoon of ground cloves
  • 1 cup of honey
  • 2 tablespoon of 100% cocoa
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup of brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon of butter
  • A little bit of grated nutmeg
  • 1 tablespoon of baking soda
  • 3 cups of flour

Directions

Step 1

  1. Separate the egg white from the yolk
  2. Beat the egg white until fluffy, and leave it at rest for later

Step 2

  1. Put the milk, cinnamon and ground cloves to boil in a pan
  2. Add the honey, and mix everything
  3. Add the cocoa and mix everything again. Wait until the mixture is cold.

Step 3

  1. Put the sugar, butter and egg yolk in a mixer
  2. Mix them until they are creamy, then add to the mixture from Step 2
  3. Keep mixing until well blended
  4. Add the nutmeg on the top of the mixture

Step 4

  1. Add the baking soda to the flour and sift them together
  2. Mix by hand with the cream from Step 3
  3. When the mixture is all blended, slowly add the egg white from Step 1
  4. Take the mixture to a pre-heated oven at 365 F for about 30 to 45 minutes
  5. To make sure the cake is ready, stick a toothpick in the middle of it. If it’s coming out clean, the cake is done. Otherwise, wait a little bit more.

Ganache Frosting

  • 10 ounces of chocolate bites
  • 1/2 cup of heavy cream
  1. Put the chocolate bites in a glass bowl for 30 seconds in the microwave
  2. Keeping mixing until is all blended. If needed, put it back in the microwave for additional 30 seconds
  3. Put the heavy cream in the microwave for 30 seconds
  4. Mix the heavy cream to the chocolate until the mixture is well blended
  5. The mixture should look like liquid chocolate
  6. Add the mixture on top of the honey cake. Enjoy!

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