Olive Oil Honey Cake Recipe

On Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, we wish each other a Shana Tova U’Metuka – Happy and Sweet New year. It is a custom to eat honey cake on Rosh Hashanah to symbolize the “sweet” new year!

We enjoy honey cake on Rosh Hashanah. In addition, our family has a tradition to ask for “lekach“or honey cake on the day before Yom Kippur. My father would come home from shul with honey cake and we would each come to him and ask “give me lekach” and he would give us a piece of cake and bless us: “May this be the only thing you will need to ask for this year”.

I recommend frosting this cake with this super creamy Honey buttercream, you can get the recipe here.

Gather these basic ingredients for your honey cake!

• Eggs
• Sugar
• Brown sugar
• Honey
• Olive oil
• Applesauce
• Flour
• Cinnamon
• Salt
• Baking powder

It is so easy to make this honey cake! Just follow these simple steps:

1. First, beat the sugars and eggs.
2. After that, add the honey, oil and applesauce.
3. Next, fold in the dry ingredients.
4. Bake!

Due to the honey, this cake stays fresh longer than most cakes. Honey has preservative qualities that ensure the cake stays fresh and moist at room temperature for at least a week.

Honey cake doesn’t need to be refrigerated. The cold fridge actually removes the moisture from the cake. Therefore it is best to keep it at room temperature.

It is ideal to store this cake at room temperature. Wrap tightly in cling wrap and store in a ziplock bag and as a result the cake will stay fresh.

Yes, this cake freezes beautifully, having said that I recommend you freeze this cake without the frosting. Wrap the cake well in cling wrap and freeze in a ziploac bag.

I love these Apple Pie Cookies from my blog.

In addition, try this Apple and Honey Galette, which is perfect for Rosh Hashanah.

Try these Brown Butter Apple Blondies from my friend Chelsea’s blog A Duck’s Oven.

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