Every year we host our annual Christmas Open House – Holidazze! It is always on the first Saturday in December so mark your calendar! Don’t miss it! If you joined us for 2021 and have a recipe you were hoping to make for your hive – check out the info below! We love baking with honey – and we love sharing our creations with you!
https://acooksemporium.com/recipes/honey-chamomile-bee-cakelets/
https://www.nordicware.com/recipes/nutcracker-sweet-eggnog-cakes/ (instead of sugar, I used 1/3 cup honey)
https://www.nordicware.com/recipes/orange-sweet-tweet-cakes/ (instead of 1 1/4 cu sugar, I used 3/4 C honey and 1/4 C of sugar)
https://www.nordicware.com/recipes/cinnamon-swirl-santa-loaf-cake/ (instead of Santa pan, I used the Jubilee pan. Instead of sugar in the cake, I used 1/3 C honey)
Gingerbread Cakelets
4 T butter, softened
2T Honey
1T sugar
1 large egg
1/2 c molasses
1 1/3 c flour
1/2 t cinnamon
1/2 t ginger
1/4 t ground cloves
1/4 t salt
6 T hot water
Preheat oven to 350. In a large bowl, cream together sugar and butter. Beat in egg; stir in molasses; set aside. In small bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Blend into the butter mixture. Stir in the hot water. Divide evenly among wells in pan, filling each well only 3/4 full. Tap gently on counter-top to remove air bubbles. Bake 23-28 minutes until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan. Invert onto cooling rack and cool completely. Decorate as desired. If there is extra batter, fill pan with remaining batter and repeat. Makes about 6 cakes.
Pumpkin Bread
2 C sugar
3/4 C honey
1/2 c canola oil
3 eggs
1 – 15oz can pumpkin
1 t each: ground cloves, cinnamon & nutmeg
2 C flour
1 t baking soda
1/2 t baking powder
1/2 t salt
Combine sugar & oil with a mixer
Beat in the eggs and pumpkin
Combine dry ingredients together in a medium bowl. Add half of the dry ingredients at a time tot he wet, mixing well in between.
Pour into buttered loaf pans
Bake at 350 for 1 hour or until done
Makes 2 regular loaves or 4 mini loaves
Muffins need only 20 minutes to cook
