Whole Wheat Honey Tea Bread

This rainy season is for chit chatting with friends on weekends, sipping on to hot cups of tea and enjoy the rains in backdrop. And personally, I love to sit at home in this weather, than muster courage to step out (all because the traffic gets worsened in our city in rains). And when I am alone at home, my favorite thing to do is to bake. Last weekend, while it was raining heavily, I turned on some soothing Ghazal music on my ipad and fired on the oven. I wanted to bake something healthy, which could go very well with the tea as well. I had this lovely recipe of jewish honey cake, which was there in my mind from a very long time. But that one called for golden syrup, which is basically not so easily available here. And I wondered that if it called honey cake, why can’t I give it a try with honey. And as I wanted to go little healthier, I substituted half of the plain flour with whole wheat flour. Although, it didn’t turn out very light on texture, probably because of whole wheat flour I bunged in. But it gave it a very nutty nice flavor. It turned out to be a very nice tea bread than being actually a cake. I tasted even better, when toasted and slathered with butter or even a drizzle of honey did wonder to it. I believe sometimes trying out things in a different way than prescribed, yields better and interesting outcome. And this one was indeed one of them. 

Whole Wheat Honey Tea Bread

2016-07-07 08:47:45

Whole Wheat Honey Tea Bread

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Ingredients

1. 250 gm honey
2. 450 ml boiling water
3. 100 gm soft brown sugar
4. 3 eggs
5. 250 ml light olive oil
6. 1 tsp vanilla extract
7. 200 gm plain flour
8. 200 gm whole wheat flour
9. 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
10. 1 tsp baking soda
11. 2 tsp cinnamon powder
12. 1/2 tsp ground ginger
13. butter, for greasing pan

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 170 degree C. Grease a 9 inch load pan and line the base with parchment paper.
2. Mix honey, water and sugar in bowl, until sugar dissolves.
3. Beat the eggs with oil and vanilla extract in a separate bowl and then add in the honey mixture.
4. Stir together the flours, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and ginger and gradually fold into the wet mixture.
5. Pour the batter into prepared pan and bake for 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the center of loaf comes out clean.
6. Leave the loaf to cool in pan and completely.

By Himanshu Taneja

Adapted from Sesame & Spice by Anne Shooter

Adapted from Sesame & Spice by Anne Shooter

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