Southern Honey Cake
Submitted by Rosemary Wiley, Southern Illinois Electric Cooperative
Servings 12
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup pineapple juice
- 1/4 cup water
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup honey
- 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup pecans chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 F.
- Combine pineapple juice and water in a small saucepan. Bring it to a boil. Stir in baking soda and set aside.
- Combine sugar, eggs, vegetable oil and honey and beat at medium speed in a mixer until well blended.
- In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and allspice.
- Add the dry ingredients and the pineapple juice mixture alternately to the creamed mixture, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Mix after each addition. Stir in vanilla and pecans.
- Spoon batter into a greased and floured 12-cup Bundt pan. Bake for 1 hour or until done.
- Cool for 10 minutes in the pan before inverting on a cooling rack.
