Spiced honey cakes – Gourmet Traveller

Ingredients

• 180 gm plain flour
• 1¼ tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• Pinch each of ground cloves and freshly grated nutmeg
• ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 110 gm (½ cup) raw caster sugar
• 40 gm (2½ tbsp) brown sugar
• 120 gm honey
• 80 ml (1/3 cup) almond oil or vegetable oil
• 100 ml milk
• 1 egg
• 20 ml Scotch whisky
• For greasing: butter
• Honey butter icing
• 80 gm honey
• 50 gm softened butter
• 200 gm pure icing sugar, sifted
• 1 tsp lemon juice