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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.