Cake with peanuts and honey
Cooking time50 minutes
Prep time10 minutes
Servings8 portions
Ingredients
For the cake
- 80 ml. Altis Chania Crete Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 140 gr. sugar
- 150 gr. thyme honey
- 50 ml. water
- 2 eggs
- 250 gr. all-purpose flour
- 100 gr. Aegina peanuts, minced
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 ¼ teaspoons baking power
- Juice and zest from 1 lemon
- ¼ teaspoon salt
For the glaze
- 100 gr. powder sugar
- 20 ml. olive oil
- Juice from 1 lemon
Instructions
EXECUTION
- We preheat the oven at 180ο C and oil a non-stick cake form.
- In a small saucepan, we heat the honey and water for 2 min., remove it from the heat and add the lemon zest and juice.
- In a bowl, we mix the flour, peanuts, salt and baking power.
- In the mixer, we beat the sugar and eggs for 2 min., add the olive oil, honey, cinnamon and the flour mix, continuing to beat for 1 min.
- We place the dough in the non-stick cake form and bake it for 50 min. at 180ο C with the hot air on.
- We leave the honey cake to cool and then remove it from the form.
- We prepare the glaze, mixing all the materials together, and we pour it over the cake; if we wish, we can sprinkle it with ground Aegina peanuts.
- We can use orange instead of lemon
- Instead of white sugar we can use soft brown sugar
