Sunny Honey Cake

Ingredients

  • Eggs
  • 1 cup 
    Sugar
  • 1 cup 
    Oil
  • ½ cup 
    BeeMaid Honey
  • Medium orange, rind grated
  • 3 cups 
    Flour
  • 3 tsp. 
    Baking powder
  • ½ tsp. 
    Baking soda
  • 2 tsp. 
    Cinnamon
  • ½ cup 
    Cold coffee, very strong
  • ½ cup 
    Orange Juice
  • ½ cup 
    Walnuts, broken (or other nuts)
  • ½ cup 
    Raisins

Directions

With electric mixer beat eggs with sugar. Add the oil, honey, coffee,grated orange, and blend well. Combine dry ingredients (flour, baking powder,baking soda,cinnamon) and add alternately with the liquid. Stir in nuts and raisins. Pour into an ungreasd 10"" tube pan, and bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 300 degrees for 1 hour, or until the cake is done. Invert cake and cool before removal from the cake pan.

(Opt.) You may wish to give this a light sifting of icing sugar or, if you wish, before baking add 1/2 cup chocolate chips.