This Honey Pound Cake is moist and tender with just the right amount of honey flavor. The cake is delicious on its own or you can serve it with fresh fruit, whipped cream, or a sauce.
I love trying new pound cake recipes and I just love this honey version. The cake has the best texture – soft and moist but with a tight crumb, which is a defining feature of a pound cake.
It’s a great cake to make for dessert, but also is perfect as a snack cake with coffee or tea. I also love that it gives me the excuse to use my bundt pan collection. I used my favorite pan, the Nordicware Heritage Bundt Pan*, to bake. Everything comes out looking so elegant when it’s baked in this pan.
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Ingredients
- Cake flour
- Baking soda
- Salt
- Softened unsalted butter
- Granulated sugar
- Large eggs
- Sour cream
- Vanilla extract
- Honey
Flour: Cake flour gives this cake the best texture and crumb. I haven’t tested the recipe with any other kind of flour. If you only have all purpose flour, you might like to try my easy honey cake instead.
Sour cream: I love to use sour cream to make pound cakes. It adds a subtle tangy flavor.
Honey: I recommend using a high-quality honey for this recipe. The main flavor in the cake is honey, so choosing one that your really like the flavor of is important. I have made this cake with regular honey and raw honey. I prefer raw honey for this recipe, which needs to be melted before adding it to the batter.
Tips for Making the Cake
You will need a 10 to 12-cup bundt pan for this recipe. Coat the inside of the pan with baking spray (the kind that has flour in it).
The batter is easy to make. First, you sift the flour, baking soda, and salt in a medium mixing bowl. Then cream the butter with an electric mixer in a large bowl until the mixture is light and fluffy.
Add the eggs one at a time to the butter mixture. Adding them one at a time ensures they are fully incorporated into the mixture.
For the best results, add the flour mixture in two batches. Add half of it to the butter and then mix in the sour cream, honey, and vanilla. Add the rest of the dry ingredients and mix until just combined.
This is a large cake that takes between an hour and an hour and 15 minutes to bake. Once a toothpick comes out clean, the cake is done.
Serving Ideas
I love this cake dusted with some powdered sugar, but you can serve it with other toppings.
Whipped cream and fresh fruit like blueberries, strawberries, or raspberries would be good. Or you could drizzle a little fruit syrup over each slice.
More Recipes with Honey
Honey Pound Cake
Ingredients
- 3 cups cake flour
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter softened
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 6 eggs
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 3 1/2 tsbp honey if you are using raw honey, heat up the honey and melt it before adding to the batter
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325ºF. Spray a 10 to 12 cup Bundt baking pan with nonstick baking spray containing flour.
- Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
- In large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Add half the flour mixture and mix on low speed. Then add in the sour cream, honey and vanilla extract and mix again. Finally, add in the rest of the flour and mix until everything is just blended.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and spread evenly. Bake for 65-75 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Dust with confectioner's sugar before serving.
Notes
The nutrition information provided are only estimates based on an online nutritional calculator. I am not a certified nutritionist. Please consult a professional nutritionist or doctor for accurate information and any dietary restrictions and concerns you may have.
I love honey on my fresh apples with cinnamon
I’ll definitely have to try this one. I’m glad to find recipes that specifically call for raw honey. It’s so much better and infinitely more adaptable than the traditional, mass made stuff.
Hi
Thanks for beautiful cake.
Can I please help us get this cake mold where I prepare?
Grateful
I bought the mold from Amazon. If you click on the link on my post, it will take you to the one I bought.
Honey Green Milk Tea
With hot water & cinnamon! 🙂
I like honey in tea, ice cream, cookies, candy, chocolate, w/peanut butter sandwiches and basically any dessert.
hi kirbie – i like to eat honey with pb sandwiches
I love honey in oatmeal, tea, even cereal! But recently, my go-to snack has been spreading almond butter on a piece of toast and drizzling it with generous amounts of honey! It’s beyond delicious!
Favorite drink: honey, lemon juice, and a bit of ginger mixed together in hot water. The perfect thing to warm you up in the winter, or soothe your throat when you’re sick. Favorite food: toasted english muffin with butter and honey.
I love honey, peanut butter, and cinnamon sandwiches, so delicious!
I always put honey in my tea on a daily basis, but I also LOVE honey in a sweet salad vinaigrette. Beautiful cake by the way!
I love nordicware, pound cake, and honey! I made a gingerbread cake in the bavarian nordicware pan last night.
we eat a lot of honey. After having so many allergy problems, we eat a lot of local honey and have noticed a change in our allergies.
We like honey on hot biscuits and I use it in a lot of recipes. It is the perfect sweetener.
Hey Kirbie! I love this cake, looks absolutely gorgeous! And I would love to win this giveaway cuz I like honey on everything, my tea, cereal and of course on my toasts 🙂 And honey’s the best salad dressing!!! What say?
Honey is tied with cranberries as my favorite ingredient.
I have it with lemon and hot water, in tea, mixed with butter or peanut butter, in cookie recipes…and of course, straight off the spoon. I remember once I was even inspired to make honeyed wine after I read the Odyssey again.
I have three roommates, and they are all amazed and a little appalled at the amount of honey I go through in a month (I have four different local raw varieties right now). I also love trying different kinds of honey, so I’d love the chance to try some from Hawaii! At any rate, I can’t wait to try your recipe. Thanks!
i just like honey on bread
On a piece of toast with cream cheese and a little bit of salt.
Another favorite is with bananas!
I’ve never had raw honey, but it looks super tasty!
Absolutely love how delicious this cake looks, I’m going to have to try this recipe! As for honey… I love to put honey on cornbread!
I love honey and butter on whole wheat toast or cornbread.
in a peanut butter and honey sandwich!
I like to stir in honey into my breakfast oats! And marinating chicken wings!
Honey and butter on cornbread
Honey in NACHOS so delicious!
I like honey in my tea or coffee.
I like having my honey on toasted English muffins. Peanut butter, honey, and banana sandwiches are also delicious, though!
I mix up honey and peanut butter and eat is as apple dip!
I LOVE the look of this cake! I need to write that down for my wishlist! I like honey in my tea, with toast in the morning along with some raisins and Nutella. I also use honey drizzled on top of Greek yogurt with cranberries and granola to boot.
I love honey with fried nuggets!
Mixed with water
I always drink honeyed green tea every morning before breakfast!
on warm cornbread with a bowl of chili!
Well, I’d love to try some honey in this bundt cake, but I do like putting honey in hot tea, or even just hot water.
this honey looks so delicious!
I drink honey in my green tea every morning. It tastes so much better than sugar 🙂 The cake looks beautiful!
i love my honey on bread with some nice aged cheese!
Your honey beer bread recipe is great way to use Honey!
I love this bundt pan! Probably my favorite 😉
hi! yes, i hope to win this one too. I’m selfish that way. but i’m asian, so isn’t that a given? 😉
Haha, there’s nothing wrong with wanting to win them all. 😉
That raw honey looks so delicious – I don’t think I have ever had raw honey before!
We like to eat honey a few ways around here – on toast, in our tea, but my favorite is drizzled and stirred into some Greek yogurt. So good!
Thanks for the chance to win.
Tea, toast, peanut butter/honey/and whatever else sandwiches….I love honey!
I like it on a biscuit with some butter!
I love honey straight on a spoon!
I love to add honey to my bbq sauce then bbq ribs with it!
I just wanted to say I love your bundt pans. Honey – I like it in my tea.
I love using honey in marinades, and I actually like it in coffee, too!!
Toast, with peanut butter and honey!
I like to put honey in my tea.
I must make that bundt cake!
Whenever I have a sore throat, my mom always makes me a cup of hot water with preserved lemons and honey. It’s so good and effective! My favorite way of using honey though is adding it into bread recipes so there’s a subtle sweetness to it.
I love to put honey in steeped ginger water, especially on cold days.
I like eating honey just plain.
I like honey on my muffins
I love honey with butter on bread. YUM
I love it plain
I love honey in my tea, and also on peanut butter toast. Good honey I’ll eat by the spoonful, but I’ve never thought to bake with it!
I’ve never tried raw honey, and this one sounds very yummy! I usually just put honey in tea.
I love honey over peanut butter on a slice of whole grain bread!
I love adding honey to oatmeal–it’s a great natural sweetener!
Honey on a hot biscuit 🙂
what an elegant bundt pan! looks like some modern architecture 😀
I love drinking honeyed water. The subtle taste is delicious. 😛
I use honey in one of my favorite cocktails along with soymilk, cinnamon, and peach schnapps. It tastes much better than it sounds–I promise!