CHOCOLATE ORANGE HONEY CAKE | HILLTOP HONEY X MONTY BOJANGLES

Name: CHOCOLATE ORANGE HONEY CAKE | HILLTOP HONEY X MONTY BOJANGLES
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 125 millilitres Hilltop Honey; 100 grams Orange Angelical Truffles; 275 grams light brown muscovado sugar; 225 grams soft butter; 2 large eggs; 200 grams plain flour; 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda; 1 tablespoon cocoa powder; 250 millilitres boiling water; For the sticky orange honey glaze:; 60 millilitres water; 125 millilitres Hilltop Spanish Orange Blossom Honey; 175 grams Monty Bojangles Orange Angelical Truffles; 75 grams icing sugar

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Servings

Prep Time

15 minutes

Cook Time

60 minutes

This beautiful chocolate orange honey cake is covered in a rich truffle ganache made using our Orange Angelical truffles and Hilltop Honey’s Spanish Orange Blossom Honey for an extra sweet, zesty finish.

Ingredients

125 millilitres Hilltop Honey
100 grams Orange Angelical Truffles
275 grams light brown muscovado sugar
225 grams soft butter
2 large eggs
200 grams plain flour
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
250 millilitres boiling water
For the sticky orange honey glaze:
60 millilitres water
125 millilitres Hilltop Spanish Orange Blossom Honey
175 grams Monty Bojangles Orange Angelical Truffles
75 grams icing sugar

Directions

Take whatever you need out of the fridge so that all the ingredients can come to room temperature. While that’s happening, melt the chocolate truffles, from the cake ingredients list, in a good-sized bowl, either in the microwave or suspended over a pan of simmering water. Set aside to cool slightly.
Preheat the oven to gas mark 4/180°C/160°C Fan/350ºF, and butter and line a 23cm / 9 inch springform cake tin.
Beat together the sugar and soft butter until airy and creamy, and then add the runny honey. Add one of the eggs, beating it with a tablespoon of the flour, and then the other egg with another tablespoon of flour. Fold in the melted truffles, then the rest of the flour and the bicarbonate of soda. Add some sieved cocoa, and last of all, beat in the boiling water. Mix everything well to make a smooth batter and pour into the prepared tin. Cook for up to an hour and a half, checking the cake after 45 minutes and if it is catching, cover the top lightly with foil, then check every 15 minutes.
Remove the cake from the oven and let it cool completely in the tin on a rack.
To make the glaze, bring the water and runny honey to a boil in a small-medium saucepan, then turn off the heat and add the finely chopped truffles, swirling it around to melt in the hot liquid. Leave it for a few minutes then whisk together. Sieve in the icing sugar and whisk again until smooth.
Choose your plate or stand and cut out four strips of baking paper to form a square outline on the plate. This is so that when you sit the cake on and ice it, the icing will not run out all over the plate. Unclip the tin and sit the cooled cake on the prepared plate. Pour the icing over the chocolate cake and smooth it down the sides
P.s. The glaze stays tacky for ages (this is what gives it its lovely melty gooeyness) so ice in time for the glaze to harden a little; at least an hour before you want to serve it. Then very gently slide out the strips of baking paper to reveal a clean plate!

Great product

I love the lip balm so ordered 4 to make the postage costs worthwhile. But was very surprised when they arrived in an (relatively) enormous box instead of an envelope which would have done the job adequately.

Love it

I'm not a big honey fan but decided to try the sweet and salty honey because it sounded different. I was not disappointed, it has just the right amount of sweetness and the salty flavour isnt too strong but just right. It's very addictive and I have it on my cereal every morning and have had to stop myself just eating it from the jar. Highly recommended.

Love Honey

I've used your honey before. It was a gift. I had to buy more. Thank you and the bees for making such a delicious product

Lovely taste

Very nice taste, but the bottom of all the gels turned into sugar which makes getting it out difficult when running or cycling.

Note to self

Purchased gels with a BB end of April 25.. big mistake. They were crystallised. Quick email to customer services advised to pop into hot water before consuming. Who has time to do that and if I want midway through a long run 🏃🏼‍♀️ ndoo ok not see how this works. Regret buying a product that in my opinion isn’t for consumption. They were the only ones available as everything was out of stock. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve enjoyed this product but just back luck on my part. I will purchase in future with a longer use by date.

Hi Georgina,

Thanks for your review - as mentioned the BBE is visible for users to see on our product listing before purchasing, this is also reflected in the sale price too. The best way to de crystallise any honeys is placing them in a luke warm bowl of water, leave out in natural heat, or even place it on a luke warm radiator.

We appreciate you honest feedback however and have shared with the team :)

CHOCOLATE ORANGE HONEY CAKE | HILLTOP HONEY X MONTY BOJANGLES

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Hilltop Honey Ltd,

Vastre Industrial Estate,

Newtown

SY16 1DZ

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