Honey Spice Cake

This is a yummy spicy cake I made for DB for his birthday. We were going away to the coast - it keeps really well and is actually better to eat the day after baking. Make sure you use a reasonably strongly flavoured honey in this too... From 'Cooking with Herbs and Spices'.

• Ready In: 1 hr 5 mins
• Serves: 10
• Yields: 1 cake

Ingredients

• 2⁄3 cup butter
• 1⁄2 cup  soft light brown sugar
• 3⁄4 cup honey
• 1 3⁄4 cups self raising flour
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1⁄4 teaspoon caraway seed
• 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 2  eggs, beaten
• 3  cups icing sugar

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 180C or 350F, and grease the chosen tin.
2. Put butter, sugar, honey and 1 tbsp water into a saucepan and heat gently til melted and dissolved.
3. Remove from heat and cool well - about 10 minutes.
4. Sift flour into a bowl and mix in the spices.
5. Make a well in the centre and pour in the honey mix and eggs and beat until smooth.
6. Pour into prepared tin and bake 40-50 minutes or until done.
7. Make the icing by sifting the icing sugar into a bowl, stirring in enough water to make a flowing consistency and spoon it over the cooled cake. I used lemon juice instead of water in the icing - but that's just because I use any excuse to get citrus into foods! I think you could get as creative as you want with the icing. Enjoy!