It’s that time again….Secret Recipe Club!
This month I was given the blog Cravings of a Lunatic. Such a fun and delicious blog! I also loved reading her “my story” section. Such a funny lady!
After searching through her recipes I settled on adapting her Honey and Almond Cake. Since I wanted to use up some of my homemade pumpkin butter (so I didn’t resort to eating all with a spoon) I added it to the batter of the cake to give it a subtle pumpkin and spice flavor. Also, instead of almonds on top I decided to use unsalted pepitas. I figured it would be fun to stay in the pumpkin theme 
The cake turned out moist, sweet and full of flavor! I loved the bit of honey flavor that was present throughout of the cake. The honey also made a beautiful shiny glaze for the top.
Pumpkin Butter Honey Cake:
3/4 cup unsalted butter, extra for greasing
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup homemade pumpkin butter (if using store bought pumpkin butter I would cut down a bit on the added sugar)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 eggs – beaten
1 1/2 cups self-rising flour*
4 tablespoons pepitas
Warmed honey to glaze
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease a 8 inch spring form or tart pan.
In a medium saucepan add the butter, sugar, honey, pumpkin butter and lemon juice.
Stir over medium heat, without boiling, until melted and smooth.
Take off the heat, let cool slightly and add eggs, beating with a wooden spoon.
Add in flour and mix lightly.
Pour into greased cake pan and sprinkle the top with pepitas.
Bake for 35 minutes or until golden brown.
Cool in pan for 15 minutes, remove and move to a wire rack and continue cooling.
Brush with warmed honey to create a shiny (and sweet!) top.
* Don’t have self-rising flour? It’s ok. You can make your own!
Self-Rising Flour:
1 cup all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Mix together and enjoy your homemade self rising flour.
For this recipe you would 1 1/2 cups flour, 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder and 1 teaspoon salt.
This is gorgeous!
This would be perfect for eating while watching Winnie the Pooh.
This looks absolutely delicious and your photos are lovely, so enticing!
Yayyy! What a great choice- the seeds on top totally make this look extra special.
I love the remake. The addition of pumpkin and pepitas is wonderful. Your pictures are lovely. Mine didn’t post for some reason this morning. Apparently funny people cannot work the “scheduled post” button. Who knew?! It was an honor to have you redo this one.
Looks gorgeous and delicious! I like the idea of pumpkin seeds on the top.
Love this! I have been wanting to make a honey cake for awhile now. I am thinking of using my leftover pear butter in place of the pumpkin… The pepitas were a lovely festive touch
Great SRC pick!
Oh my word, this looks absolutely delicious and you know how much I love pumpkin too.
What a great looking perfectly seasonal simple cake. I’ll take a slice!
Such a beautiful looking cake and perfect flavors this time of year.
If you haven’t already, I’d love for you to check out my SRC recipe this month: Pork Belly Soup with Collard Greens.
Lisa~~
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Looks beautiful. I think with all these pumpkin recipes flying round I’m definitely going to have to have a mass steaming/boiling session so I can actually create some of them!
This looks so wonderful. Pepitas are one of my favorite snacks…
this sounds fabulous! i still haven’t made pumpkin butter, but i do have apple butter in my fridge
Yum! I’m still in the mood for pumpkin everything, so this looks awesome! Great adaptation!
This looks fantastic! I love honey in baked goods – great flavor plus it makes them so moist!
I’m all for anything pumpkin. All to soon I will be craving anything citrus.
Mimi
Ha I love her blog’s title! And what a great choice you baked while using up pumpkin butter. It does make everything so moist. Looks so yummy.
Your honey cake looks amazing, but the addition of pumpkin is brilliant.
This looks so good – and love the pictures. Awesome job!
Great one for the season! Love the pepitas on top. I love eating them in handfuls…not so great for my skin but I can not stop myself.
Love all the crunchy seeds on top!
I love that you used pepitas on top! It looks great!
I love Kim’s blog and she’s hilarious to boot! This is a great pic for the SRC, you certainly did a beautiful job.
Wow, this cake is so gorgeous! I love that it’s baking in a tart shell
This cake, in all it’s simplicity, sounds absolutely divine! Such a beautiful combination of fall flavors!
What a great idea to add some pumpkin butter into the batter. This looks like a wonderful cake for the holidays.
It’s beautiful, and I really like that pepita topping.
What a simply gorgeous looking cake!
I LOVE how you kept it in the pumpkin family!
And I’ve never even heard of a cake like this! But I love the sound of it!
What a brilliant take on the honey almond butter cake from your assigned blog! The pepita topping is perfection! I am dying to taste this, but only YOUR pumpkin butter will suffice, so I guess I have to make that too. Aww, shucks, such a rough life
Gorgeous cake – gorgeous photo..great SRC pick!
Wow, this looks gorgeous! Great remake for SRC. I’m hosting a pumpkin blog hop. I would love if you linked up!
This looks so GOOD!!!!! I’m thinking Thanksgiving Breakfast
What an amazing thanksgiving recipe!! YUM!!!!!!
This looks amazing and all of the recipes for this month!!! Great job!
That looks fabulous. I love the pepitas on top. The perfect finishing touch.
This looks wonderful. A great photo!
How fun that you got Kim’s blog and she got yours!!! LOVE what you’ve done with this yummy cake…SO beautiful and tasty.
LOVE how you adapted this one with pumpkin. Beautiful cake.
complete with pumpkin seeds on top! nice one, brandy.
Love all the different flavours going on in this cake. Good choice!
Gorgeous!! I love the addition of pumpkin butter, so genius! Great src pick
Great recipe! Caught this on my Twitter feed. I make homemade pumpkin butter all the time. Trader Joe’s sells it, but only seasonally, so I had to start making my own. Now I have a recipe to use it in!
What a beautiful looking cake. Love the way you changed it up.
Another great use for that pumpkin butter!!
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this looks stellar! just saw jane deere feature it..and had to come over and check it out !
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