honeycake

• honey cake

honey +‎ cake

honeycake (plural honeycakes)

1. A cake made with honey.

   Hyponym: (Jewish honey-sweetened cake, mainly associated with Rosh Hashanah) lekach

   • 1990, Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World‎:

     On their return to the hallway they found a tray by the top of the steps, and hot honeycakes filling the hall with their sweet aroma.

   • 2011 March 31, Beata Zatorska, “Around the world in 80 dishes No. 49: Elizabeth's honeycake with plum jam”, in The Independent‎, archived from the original on 2022-07-07:

     My Aunt Elizabeth makes this deliciously dark and chewy chocolate honeycake with layers of tangy plum jam.

   • 2019 April 23, theintentionalmom.com‎, archived from the original on 2023-03-28:

     I love recipes that include my Dutch heritage, and this honeycake is SO good.