Best Honeycomb Cake Recipes

BUBBLE WRAP HONEYCOMB CAKE RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• Make the honey buttercream frosting: In a large bowl, cream together the butter and cream cheese with an electric mixer on medium speed until well combined, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Add the honey and beat to incorporate. Add the powdered sugar and a pinch of salt and beat on low until mostly combined. Increase the mixer speed to high and beat for 3-5 minutes more, until the buttercream is light and fluffy. If the frosting feels soft, you can also refrigerate it for 10-15 minutes so it stiffens slightly.
• Assemble the cake: Place a cardboard cake round on a cake turntable and dab a small amount of frosting in the center of the cardboard round. Center one yellow cake layer over the dab of frosting, then evenly spread about ½ cup of buttercream on top with an offset spatula. Top with a layer of chocolate cake, then another ½ cup of frosting. Repeat with the remaining cake layers and frosting. After adding the final layer, lightly frost the entire cake to create a thin crumb coat.
• Refrigerate the cake for 15 minutes.
• Cover the chilled cake with the remaining frosting in an even layer. Return the cake to the refrigerator for 15 minutes more, to allow the frosting to stiffen.
• Take the cake out of the refrigerator. With the bubbles facing outward so they don't get frosting on them, wrap the sheet of bubble wrap around the perimeter of the cake. Trim the wrap to form a collar that fits loosely around the cake and comes about 2 inches over the top edge. Remove the bubble wrap. Keep the cake in the refrigerator until you're ready to finish the assembly.
• Make the yellow candy honeycomb: Place the candy melts in a medium microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on medium power (not on high, which will cause the candy to seize) in 30-second intervals, stirring in between, until the candy is fully melted and smooth.
• Place the bubble wrap bubble-side up on a flat surface. Pour most of the melted candy along the bottom two-thirds of the bubble wrap. Working quickly, use an offset spatula to spread the candy over the bubble wrap, leaving the top third empty. Once the bottom two-thirds are evenly covered, use a spatula to spread the candy in a wave pattern along the top edge. Let sit for 5 minutes. While you wait, remove the cake from the refrigerator and position it near the bubble wrap.
• After 5 minutes, test the bubble wrap by lifting up a corner. If it looks like it is beginning to harden and has a sheen to it but is still pliable, it is ready to be used. If the candy is still very loose and dripping, let sit for another 1-3 minutes, checking every minute.
• Once the candy has set, pick it up by the top corners and quickly wrap the side with the candy around the cake. Press it onto the cake so it sticks. Once attached, try to slowly peel one corner of bubble wrap off. It it sticks, let sit for 1-3 minutes, checking every minute, until ready to peel. If it begins to peel, continue slowly peeling off the bubble wrap until entirely removed. If the candy cracks while you are peeling off the bubble wrap, either remelt and repeat the process, or break it into large shards to decorate the outside of the cake. Refrigerate until serving time.
• Immediately before serving, top the cake with homemade honeycomb pieces and crushed honeycomb. Drizzle honey around the edges of the yellow candy honeycomb.
• Carefully slice the cake. Drizzle each piece with more honey before serving.
• Enjoy!

ALMOND HONEYCOMB CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Thoroughly butter a 12 1/4-by-11 2/3-inch honeycomb pull-apart dessert pan, making sure to cover all the detailed nooks and crannies. Lightly dust the pan with all-purpose flour (sifting the flour over the top of the pan works best; tap out excess).
• Beat the butter, salt and 1 3/4 cups of the sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed, scraping down the sides as needed, until well combined (the butter does not need to be fluffy), about 3 minutes. Beat in the eggs, one at a time until incorporated (the mixture will first appear loose and broken, but will eventually come together). Scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean and beat into the butter mixture; reserve the pod for another use.
• Reduce the mixer speed to low and beat in the almond flour until combined. Add the all-purpose flour and beat on low until combined. Add the whiskey and beat on low until combined. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan, smoothing the top with a rubber spatula. Tap the pan firmly on the counter a few times to force batter into the edges of the pan.
• Bake the cake until golden brown, the edges begin to pull away from the pan and a toothpick inserted in the center and edges of the cake comes out clean, 35 to 45 minutes. Let the cake cool in the pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes. Invert the cake onto a serving plate; carefully remove the pan and very lightly brush away any excess flour from the top of the cake.
• Meanwhile, use a vegetable peeler to peel wide strips from half of the orange (about 6 strips).
• Boil the cardamom pods in 3/4 cup water in a small saucepan over medium heat until most of the water has evaporated and the mixture is very fragrant, 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in 1 cup of the honey and the orange peels. Let sit for 5 minutes. Strain the mixture through a mesh sieve into a small glass measuring cup; discard the solids. The mixture should be very thin and slightly warm; gently re-heat if necessary. Slowly drizzle the mixture over the warm cake, allowing the cake to soak up the honey before adding more. Let the cake cool, about 1 hour.
• Just before serving, heat the remaining 1/4 cup sugar with 1 tablespoon water in small saucepan over medium-high heat and cook, stirring occasionally, until the sugar dissolves, 3 minutes. Stir in the remaining 1/2 cup honey until combined, then remove from the heat and drizzle over the top of cake, allowing the honey to slowly drip over the sides and into each honeycomb.

HONEYCOMB CAKE

Steps:

• Caramelize sugar over low heat in a saucepan until its golden brown, Stir at all times.
• Add water to the caramel. Be careful as the hot caramel will splash when water is added.
• Melt butter in hot syrup.Let cool.
• preheat oven to 180 Celsius In a mixing bowl lightly beat eggs with hand whisk. Add condensed milk and mix well.
• Sift flour and baking soda into another bowl. Pour egg mixture into egg mixture and mix well.
• Add cooled syrup into batter. Pour into a greased 8 x 3 cake pan.
• Leave batter aside for 5 minutes to enable baking soda to react. It will be runny.
• Bake cake for 1 hour until skewer inserted in centre comes out clean.
• Let cake sit for 5 - 10 minuts before turning it out. Cool before cutting.

HONEYCOMB CAKE

Steps:

• First glaze: Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Bring all ingredients to a boil in a small saucepan. Remove from heat.
• Cake: Butter and flour an 8-inch hexagonal (or round or square) cake pan. Whisk together flour, cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, and sage. Beat eggs and brown sugar on medium-high until pale and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes. Beat in honey, milk, oil, and zest. With mixer on low, add flour mixture in 2 batches; beat until just combined.
• Spread batter in pan. Bake until golden and a toothpick comes out clean, about 35 minutes. Remove from oven; poke holes with toothpick all over cake. Remove zest strips and sage from first glaze; brush over top. Let cool completely in pan.
• Final glaze: Whisk together honey, confectioners' sugar, and lemon juice. Remove cake from pan and brush final glaze over top; continue until all is used. Garnish with sugared sage. Cut into wedges with a serrated knife, wiping knife between cuts; serve.

HONEYCOMB COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Grease a 9 inch square baking pan.
• In a mixer bowl, combine flour, sugar, softened butter, milk, eggs, baking powder, and orange and almond extracts.
• Beat on medium speed, scraping the sides of the bowl often, until well mixed (1-2 minutes).
• Spread into greased pan.
• In a heavy 2-quart saucepan, combine remaining 1/2 cup butter, sugar, honey, nutmeg, milk, and 1/2 tsp orange extract. Cook over medium heat, stirring occaisionally until mixture comes to a full boil (about 5 minutes).
• Boil for 2 minutes.
• Remove from heat, stir in pecans.
• Pour evenly over coffee cake.
• Bake on the center oven rack for 22-27 minutes.

HONEYCOMB PATTERN CAKE

Steps:

• Cut a piece of bubble wrap to stand 2 inches taller than the cake's height.
• Lay the bubble wrap down, bubble-side up. Heat the candy melts in a microwave-safe bowl in the microwave at 30-second intervals, stirring well between each, until melted and smooth. Pour the yellow chocolate over the bubble wrap and spread using a large offset spatula; cover the entire piece of bubble wrap. Let stand 5 minutes. Lift the coated bubble wrap and place it evenly around the cake. Transfer to the refrigerator to chill until firm, about 15 minutes. Peel away the bubble wrap to reveal the honeycomb pattern.
• Transfer the vanilla frosting to a piping bag fitted with a large closed-star tip. Pipe swirls of frosting on top of the cake and inside the honeycomb shell. Pipe a line of frosting stars over the seam in the honeycomb shell. Use dots of frosting to adhere candy bees to the outside of the cake. Drizzle the honey over the top of the cake. Add cookie crumbs around the bottom edge of the cake for 'dirt'. Serve immediately.

HONEYCOMB COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees. Grease 8 or 9-inch round pan. In small bowl, combine brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Mix well. In second small bowl, melt butter and blend with lemon juice. Separate the 10 biscuits, cut each biscuit into quarters. Place biscuits and graham cracker crumbs in bag and gently toss to coat. Arrange pieces evenly in pan. With small wooden spoon handle, poke deep holes in each piece. Sprinkle with brown sugar mixture; drizzle with lemon butter and sprinkle with nuts. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden. Fill holes with honey and serve warm.

HONEYCOMB COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Cut biscuits into quarters. Toss in cracker crumbs place in a 9" pie plate coated with non-stick vegetable spray. Press end of wooden spoon into each piece of biscuit to make a honeycomb effect sprinkle with brown sugar. In a small mixing bowl, combine margarine and lemon juice drizzle over biscuits. Bake, uncovered, at 400 degrees for 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Drizzle honey over top of cake while still hot. From "Country Quick & Easy." Copyright Gooseberry Patch. Used with permission of the publisher, Gooseberry Patch. All Rights Reserved.

HONEYCOMB PULL APART CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325° F. Grease and flour pan; set aside.
• Tip: Really get into each cell and side of pan. I used a pastry brush with liquid vegetable oil and floured liberally and tapped it all around and then tapped the excess into the sink.
• In medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; set aside.
• In large bowl, beat butter and sugar on low speed until blended. Beat on medium speed until light and fluffy.
• Creamed butter and sugar
• Add eggs and beat until well blended.
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• Add fl0ur mixture, sour cream and lemon rind; blend on low speed 1 minute, scraping bowl often. Beat on medium speed 2 minutes.
• Grater and lemons with zest
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• Spoon batter into prepared pan.
• Tip: I folded a kitchen hand towel in half and placed it on the kitchen counter. I then gently tapped the cake pan with the batter in it, to make sure that the batter settled into the crevice of each honeycomb cell.
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• See the over rack above pan? It's too low. Raise it or take out.
• Bake for 45-55 minutes, until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan.
• Tip: Don't over bake, although I kept a very close eye on the baking, and I took it out as soon as the toothpick came out clean, I thought the outer edge pieces resembled a plain donut texture and the middle pieces were moister.
• Meanwhile, make glaze: in small saucepan, combine all glaze ingredients and heat over medium heat until sugar dissolves and glaze is warm.
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• Honey lemon glaze
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• Gently run knife around edge
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• Bakes to high volume. Be mindful of oven rack placement.
• Invert cake onto cooling rack and brush with honey glaze.
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• Placed wax paper underneath in preparation for glaze.
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• I gingerly brushed ample glaze on each honeycomb cell.
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• This was the pan after inverting - Cleanup a cinch!
• Tip: After glazing, I let the cake thoroughly cool for about 2 hours before I plated it, because the underside of the cake was still really warm to the touch.
• Place on a decorative plate and serve!
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