• Butter 75 g
• Eggs 3
• Castor sugar 125 g
• Few drops of vanilla essence
• Thick cream 2 tsp
• Flour 150 g
• Baking powder 1/2 tsp
• Topping
• Butter 100 g
• Castor sugar 80 g
• Thick honey 75 g
• Thick cream 2 tsp
• Almonds, flaked 150 g
• Ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp
• Grated rind of half an orange

Grease a 10 inch sandwich tin. Preheat oven to gas mark 6/200º C.

Melt butter. Whisk eggs with the sugar and vanilla essence until frothy.

Stir in the cooled butter and cream.

Sift flour and baking powder into the mixture and fold in gently.

Turn into the prepared baking tin, smooth over and bake for 15-20 minutes.

For the topping melt butter in a pan and add sugar, honey, cream, almonds, cinnamon and orange peel.

Mix well and bring to the boil.

Spread this mixture over the cake and return to oven for a further 20-30 minutes.

Loosen the cake from the tin and leave to cool on a wire rack.

by Pak101.com (few years ago!) / 997 views