Iyengar Bakery Honey Cake | Honey Cake

Iyengar bakery honey cake is quite popular in the south and everyone loves this cake. The cake base is quite simple, and it has a mixed fruit jam and desiccated coconut topping. I wanted to try this cake since long but didn't get a chance. Better late than never, so finally tried this out and all loved it. The cake is very simple to make but tastes delicious.

I have used the eggless vanilla cake recipe using condensed milk, but you can use any other eggless vanilla cake recipe. You can use a vanilla cake recipe with eggs too, but I prefer an eggless one for this recipe. Check it out !!

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Preparation time ~ 10 minutes

Baking time ~ 25–30 minutes

Serves ~ 8' cake (16 square honey cake pieces)

Author ~ Julie

Ingredients

for making cake

wheat flour 3/4 cup

all-purpose flour 3/4 cup

baking powder 1.5 tsp

baking soda 1/2 tsp

salt a good pinch or 1/4 tsp

vanilla extract 1.5 tsp

whole milk 1/2 -3/4 cup

condensed milk 1 cup

oil (any neutral) 1/2 cup

for topping

granulated sugar 1/4 cup

water 1/2 cup

honey 1/4 cup

mixed fruit jam 1/3 cup

honey 1 tsp

desiccated coconut 1/4 cup

Method

• Sift the dry ingredients twice and keep aside.
• Add the condensed milk to a bowl and add the oil, vanilla extract and mix. Add the dry ingredients in batches. Pour milk little by little and make a lump free smooth batter.
• Line a tray (8') with parchment paper on the bottom and sides. Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees C /350 degrees F for 10 minutes.
• Transfer the batter to the prepared tray and bake in pre-heated oven for 25–30 minutes.
• Cool on a wire rack and remove the cake from the tray.
• Heat the sugar and water in a pan until sugar is dissolved. Switch off and cool. Once cooled, add the honey and mix. Poke the cake on all sides using a skewer to pour the honey syrup. Add the sugar syrup to soak the cake.
• Then mix the jam with honey to a spreadable consistency. Spread this mix on top of the cake thickly, covering all edges. Finally, add desiccated coconut as topping.
• Refrigerate for 2 hours, cut and serve. Enjoy !!

NOTES

* If you use a vanilla cake recipe with butter, then upon refrigeration, the cake may turn hard. So using an eggless cake was good.

* You can use any jams of your choice, but mixed fruit jam is good.

* The eggless condensed cake is quite popular in my blog and so used that but you can use any other eggless vanilla cake too.