Jewish New Year Honey Cake Recipe Uk
The jewish chronicle s food editor victoria prever set up a honey cake hotline after so many bakers struggled to make the perfect cake.
Jewish new year honey cake recipe uk. Ingredients 2 1 2 cups maida apf 3 tsp baking powder 1 2 tsp baking soda 1 2 tsp salt 1 tsp cinnamon powder optional 1 2 cup sugar 1 2 cup brown sugar 1 cup honey 1 2 cup vegetable oil 4 eggs 2 tsp lemon zest 1 cup orange juice 1 2 tsp vanilla essence. The jewish new year is upon us and what better way to celebrate it than by baking your own lekach. However this moist well flavoured cake is always based on honey for the hope that the new year will be sweet.
45 min ready in. This simple honey cake also known as lekach is a must have sweet treat when celebrating the jewish new year or rosh hashanah. Otherwise known as lekach these are traditionally baked for rosh hashanah the jewish new year.
Ingredients 225g self raising flour 1 tsp ground cinnamon tsp ground ginger 225g caster sugar 3 large free range eggs lightly beaten 150ml sunflower oil 300g golden syrup you will also need a 2 litre loaf tin. 1 hr 5 min preheat oven to 180 c gas mark 4. Sift together the flour baking powder.
1 and 1 4 cups 175g all purpose flour 1 2 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 4 teaspoon ground cloves optional 1 4 teaspoon ground cardamom or nutmeg optional 2 large eggs 1 2 cup 100g granulated sugar 1 2 cup 120 ml honey 1 3 cup. In a large bowl combine sugar honey oil eggs and orange zest. As an amazon affiliate i earn from qualifying purchases.
Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the orange. 20 min cook. Grease and flour a 23x33cm baking tin.
It s best made a few days ahead as the spicing and texture improve as it matures this moreish honey cake is best made a few days before you want to serve it allowing. This one is deliciously moist with an alluringly crisp edge. There is no one definitive recipe as different communities have their own traditions.