Nectar Cake

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

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