Category: Desserts

1 cup Liquid honey

1/2 cup Butter, softened

2 Eggs

1 tsp Vanilla

2 cup All-purpose flour

1 tsp Baking powder

1 tsp Ground cardamom

1/2 tsp Baking soda

1/2 tsp Salt

2/3 cup Sour cream



STREUSEL TOPPING



1/2 cup Sliced almonds

1/3 cup Packed brown sugar

1/3 cup All-purpose flour

2 tbsp Butter



ICING



1/2 tsp Cinnamon

2/3 cup Icing sugar

2 tsp Milk

[For Valentine's Day use an 8-cup heart-shaped pan and bake for 1 hour and fifteen minutes.]



In bowl, beat honey with butter until smooth; beat in eggs, 1 at a time, and vanilla. Stir together flour, baking powder, cardamom, baking soda and salt; add to honey mixture alternately with sour cream, making 3 additions of dry mixture and 2 of sour cream. spoon into greased 9-inch springform pan, smoothing top.



Streusel Topping: In small bowl, stir together almonds, sugar and flour; cut in butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over batter. Bake in 350F 180C oven for about 1 hour or until tester inserted into centre comes out clean. Let cool in pan on rack for 15 minutes. Remove from pan; let cool completely.



Icing: Sprinkle cinnamon over cake. Whisk icing sugar with milk; drizzle over cake.



10 servings for $6.21 CDN [Feb/95]



Per serving: about 440 calories, 6 g protein, 18 g fat, 66 g carbohydrate



Source: Canadian Living magazine, Feb 95 Presented in article by Donna Paris "Easy Recipes: It's a Honey of a Country"



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