Nectar Cake

Name: Nectar Cake
Yield: Serves 12
Ingredients: 350 g self-raising flour, sifted; 2 ripe bananas, mashed; 280 g unsalted butter, diced, plus more for the tins; 200 g granulated sugar; 3 tsp ground ginger; 220 g light muscovado sugar; 340 g jar runny floral honey; 200 g icing sugar; 3 tbsp runny floral honey, to taste; 300 g unsalted butter, softened; 1 tsp salt; 4 eggs, lightly beaten; icing sugar, to dust; 15 cm diameter thin cake board; 2 X 200 g packets white petal paste (see suppliers); egg yellow food colour paste; claret food colour paste

Honey Cake

Preparation info

Serves
12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Birthday Cake Book

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

A wonderful moist honey cake topped with a giant sugar rose, waiting to be pollinated! Just as beautiful would be to top the cake with fresh roses. Make both the sugar rose and coloured sugar in advance, even weeks ahead, if you like.

Ingredients

For the Cake

280 g unsalted butter, diced, plus more for the tins
350 g self-raising flour, sifted

Cake
Baking
Birthday
Vegetarian

Method

To Bake

Preheat the oven to 170°C/fan 160°C/340°F/gas mark 3½. Lightly butter two 15cm deep, round cake tins and line the bases with baking parchment. Wrap the outside of the tins with a collar of brown paper (or even newspaper) and