Recipe with honey
Forest Honey and Walnut Pound Cake
The strong, spicy forest honey goes excellently with roasted walnuts and gives the juicy sponge cake a dark, malty note.
⏱ Preparation 20 min · Cooking/baking time 50 min · Total 70 min · 12 servings
Ingredients
- 200 g butter (soft)
- 120 g forest honey from SUMMSTOFF
- 80 g brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 250 g flour
- 1 sachet baking powder
- 100 g ground walnuts
- 80 g roughly chopped walnuts
- 1 pinch of salt
- 4 tbsp milk
Method
- Preheat the oven to 170 °C (conventional). Grease and flour a loaf tin.
- Cream the butter, forest honey and sugar.
- Beat in the eggs one at a time until the mixture is smooth.
- Mix the flour, baking powder, ground walnuts and salt and stir in alternately with the milk.
- Fold in the chopped walnuts and pour the batter into the tin.
- Bake for about 50 minutes; check with a skewer.
- Leave the cake in the tin for a short while, then cool on a rack.
Nutritional values per serving (approx.): 340 kcal · Fat 22 g · Carbohydrates 28 g · Protein 7 g
Tip: Briefly toast the walnuts before chopping – this enhances the aroma.
Honey used: View forest honey in the shop →