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You can make them extra special and even convince yourself they are healthy too. Actually they are far healthier with honey. If you decide cooking with honey is your thing you can have the time of your life with some amazing honey recipes.

It is certainly mine; I try to include honey recipes in most of my home baking because I am passionate about the benefits of eating honey.

However, these are not eaten by us on a daily basis because that would be a bit silly. I always use a good flour because I like to be aware of Food nutrition facts to ensure we all stay healthy.

Apart from my families absolute favourite the lemon drizzle cake there are endless varieties to cooking cakes.

Here is a simple conversion chart for you to follow if you are adapting your recipes:

When cooking cakes you will need to adjust the measurements like this:

• 8oz of honey = 1 cup of sugar
  
• For every 60mls of liquid replaced with honey = 4 tablespoons
  
• Reduce the oven temperature accordingly. For e.g if you would normally bake a cake at Gas mark 4/180
  
• Centigrade/350 Farenheight lower them to Gas mark 3/170 Centigrade/325 Farenheight.
  
• Tip: Always preheat your oven and prepare your cake tins in advance.

The recipe below is a fantastic cake recipe which we like in my family with coconut or cocoa to make a chocolate cake but you can adapt this honey cake to suit your own personal choices.

I have given a few tips below to suggest extra ingredients you could add and of course you do not have to include the coconut if you prefer.

This cake recipe is suitable for adding dried fruit and cherries too, send me your own little twist on what you do with your honey cake because I would love to read them as would my readers.

Or you could exchange 1 spoonful of flour for a spoonful of cocoa to make it chocolate.

For now we can follow the instructions for coconut cake.

• Coconut Cake
  
• 6oz soft butter
  
• 6oz soft brown sugar
  
• 2oz desiccated coconut
  
• 3x medium eggs
  
• 8oz of sifted plain flour
  
• 4 tablespoons of honey
  
• 1 and a half teaspoons of baking powder

Over the years I have learned there is no real need to add each ingredient bit by bit as my honey recipes have always had great results when I use an electric blender or you can use a whisk or wooden spoon.

However if you are going to cook cakes on a long term basis its probably worth the expense of investing in an electric blender.

It is such a time saver and you will be able to smell your cakes baking a lot sooner…….Mmmm!

Pop all the above ingredients into the blender and mix until smooth and creamy.

Pour into your cake tins and bake in the center of the oven for around one and half hours at 160C/325F/ Gas 3.

Turn out on to a wire rack to cool and decorate with a honey icing glaze topped with a cherry.

This won’t last long I can tell you, it will be eaten as soon as its seen!

For a little twist you could add two teaspoons of cinnamon, a lovely way to enjoy the benefits of cinnamon or the zest of a couple of lemons for the benefits of lemons too and even some grated ginger for a really different twist and flavour.

It is such fun adding your own ingredients for flavouring and you’ll be very surprised at what you invent when cooking cakes with honey.

Please let me know your favourite honey recipes because I and my readers would love to share them with you.

As with the above honey cake recipe the little honey bun cake is a great favourite with the children, when mine were growing up they liked nothing more than messing about in the kitchen cooking cakes. I say messing about with tongue in cheek, Oh the mess!

I’ll convert the honey bun cake recipe into “cups” as I find most people prefer this method of measuring.

You will need either some little paper cup cake cases or a greased bun tin.

• 1 cup of plain flour
  
• Half a cup self-raising flour
  
• Half a teaspoon each of: Bicarbonate of soda and nutmeg and 3 teaspoons of ground ginger
  
• Half a cup of soft brown sugar
  
• Half a cup of honey
  
• Half a cup of water
  
• 125g soft butter

Pop honey, butter and water into a pan to melt gently together over a low heat and combine all dry ingredients into a mixing bowl or blender.

Mix them altogether and spoon into cup cases or bun tin. Cook for about 30 minutes, pop on a wire tray to cool and then decorate.

You could add nuts, cherries, dried fruit, coconut, lemon or orange zest or any other flavouring you like to put your own little twist on your own honey bun recipe.

Decorate with just a sprinkle of icing sugar or melted chocolate or any flavour icing you like.

My kids would always decorate their honey buns with gooey butter icing and marshmallows………as I said before……..a sticky mess was my kitchen but really good fun and always they were enjoying the health benefits of honey.

Have lots of fun with your honey recipes and above all else enjoy. A little bit of what you fancy every now and again does you good.

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