HONEYCOMB PULL APART CAKE

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How to make Honeycomb Pull Apart Cake

Provided by @MakeItYours

Number Of Ingredients 14

Ingredients

Honey Lemon Cake
3 cups cake flour (I used King Arthur Cake Flour)
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup butter, softened (I used Cabot)
4 eggs
2 Tbsp finely grated lemon rind (I needed 2 large lemons)
1 cup sour cream (I used Cabot)
1 1/2 cups sugar
Glaze
3 Tbsp Honey (I used Heavenly Honey Apiary)
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 Tbsp lemon juice (I only needed 1 lemon to get this)

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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