honeycake

plural honeycakes · alternative honey cake

1. A cake made with honey.

   I love recipes that include my Dutch heritage, and this honeycake is SO good.

   2019 April 23, theintentionalmom.com, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2023

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   All the next day he sat on the Prince’s shoulder, and told him stories of what he had seen in strange lands. He told him of the red ibises, who stand in long rows on the banks of the Nile, and catch gold-fish in their beaks [...] of the great green snake that sleeps in a palm-tree, and has twenty priests to feed it with honey-cakes; and of the pygmies who sail over a big lake on large flat leaves, and are always at war with the butterflies.

   1888, Oscar Wilde, “The Happy Prince”, in The Happy Prince and Other Tales, London: Duckworth, published 1928, page 30

   On their return to the hallway they found a tray by the top of the steps, and hot honeycakes filling the hall with their sweet aroma.

   1990, Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

   My Aunt Elizabeth makes this deliciously dark and chewy chocolate honeycake with layers of tangy plum jam.

   2011 March 31, Beata Zatorska, “Around the world in 80 dishes No. 49: Elizabeth's honeycake with plum jam”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2022