HONEY CAKE

Ingredients


    Cooking spray

    1 tablespoon dry breadcrumbs

    1/4 cup hot water

    2 teaspoons instant espresso granules or 4 teaspoons instant coffee granules

    1/2 cup sugar

    2 large eggs

    1/2 cup honey

    3 tablespoons stick margarine, melted

    1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

    1 teaspoon baking powder

    1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

    1/4 teaspoon salt

    1/2 cup chopped walnuts

    1/2 cup golden raisins

Preparation

    Preheat oven to 325°.

    Coat an 8 x 4-inch loaf pan with cooking spray, and dust with breadcrumbs; set pan aside.

    Combine water and coffee granules, and set aside.

    Combine sugar and eggs in a medium bowl; stir well with a whisk. Add honey and margarine; stir well. Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Add half of flour mixture to sugar mixture; stir well. Add coffee mixture; stir well. Add remaining flour mixture, and stir just until flour mixture is moist. Stir in walnuts and raisins.

    Spoon cake batter into prepared loaf pan, and bake at 325° for 1 hour and 20 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool cake in pan 10 minutes on a wire rack, and remove from pan. Cool cake completely on wire rack.