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.
• Honeycomb cake batter image
• beating honeycomb cake batter image
• 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
• Honeycomb cake batter image
• 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.
• Honeycomb cake going into oven image
• 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.
• Honey Lemon Glaze image
• Honey lemon glaze
• Honeycomb cake out of oven image
• 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.
• honeycomb pull apart cake cooling on rack image
• Placed wax paper underneath in preparation for glaze.
• glazing honeycomb pull apart cake image
• I gingerly brushed ample glaze on each honeycomb cell.
• dirty honeycomb cake pan image
• 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!
• finished Honeycomb pull apart cake image