Honey Soaked Lemon Cake

Happy Summer Solstice! Here is one of my favorite cakes, and it's sweet and sunny and the perfect way to celebrate longest day of the year! I'm definitely going to be making at least one of these this weekend with some of the local honey from the farm where I get my CSA--can't get much more local than that!

Honey Soaked Lemon Cake
Cream together:

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 cup honey

Add and mix well:

• 2 1/2 cup flour
• 2 ts baking powder
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 cup milk

** topping

• 1/4 cup honey
• 1/2 cup lemon juice

Powdered Sugar for decoration (optional)

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 
• Cream butter, sugar, eggs and honey -- mix well, then add dry ingredients.
• Pour into a greased and floured 6 C tube pan.
• Bake 350 for 35-50 minutes.
• Cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
• Remove onto a cooling rack with wax paper underneath.
• Pierce the warm cake with a fork in several places.
• Warm 1/4 cup honey and the 1/2 cup lemon juice and spoon over the cake.
• Cool completely and sprinkle with powdered sugar.