Bee Sting Cake

Name: Bee Sting Cake
Yield: Serves 10-12
Cuisine: African
Ingredients: 250 ml (8½ fl oz) Crème Légère; 2 eggs; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 60 g (2 oz) butter; 100 ml (3½ fl oz) full-fat milk; 40 g (1½ oz) honey; 40 g (1½ oz) caster sugar; 1 tbsp full-fat milk; 100 g (3½ oz) flaked almonds; 340 g (11¾ oz) plain flour; 3 tsp baking powder; a pinch of salt; 120 g (4 oz) butter, softened; 120 g (4 oz) caster sugar

Preparation info

Serves
10-12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

World's Best Cakes

By Roger Pizey

Published 2013

About

This wonderfully named cake is possibly German in origin, although these days it is very popular in South Africa. According to legend, it is named for a baker who made the cake with a honey topping, which attracted a bee that stung him.

Ingredients

340 g (11¾ oz) plain flour
3 tsp baking powder</

Africa
Europe
Germany
South Africa
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C/310°F/gas mark 2½, and grease and line a 21cm (8in) loose-bottomed cake tin with baking parchment.
Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a largish bowl.
In a separate bowl, cream the butter and sugar together u