Honey Orange Cake

This honey cake is delicious! It has a hint of citrus and crunchy walnuts for texture. Honey cake is a traditional desert for the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, but I love this cake all year round. You can also add some coffee or bourbon in place of a few tablespoons of the orange juice for a few different variations!

4 Eggs
1 C. Sugar
1/2 C. Canola Oil
1 C. Honey
1 tbs. Orange Zest
1 C. Orange Juice
2 1/2 C. Flour
3 tsp. Baking Powder
1/2 tsp. Baking Soda
1/2 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Cinnamon
1 C. Chopped Walnuts

Preheat oven to 350'.

In a large mixing bowl, beat the eggs, sugar, oil and honey together at a high spead until light in color-approximately 5 minutes. Add in orange zest. Sift together dry ingredients and at a low speed add them into the batter alternating with the orange juice -I usually do this in about four parts. When the batter is smooth, fold in chopped walnuts.

Grease and flour 2 loaf pans. Pour half the batter into each, and place in the middle of the preheated oven. Bake for 1 hour at 350'. After 1 hour, turn down the heat to 325' and bake for an additional 15 minutes.

-Enjoy for a sweet New Year!

Sesame Seed Cookies

These sesame cookies are so good! They are also not so bad for you :) and they are super easy to make.

2 Eggs

3/4 C. Granulated Sugar

4 Tbsp. Olive Oil

1/2 Tsp. Baking Soda

1 C. Flour

2 C. Sesame Seeds

Cream together with an electric mixer the eggs, sugar and olive oil until smooth. Add the Baking soda and flour slowly into the wet ingredients.  Fold in the sesame seeds until they are combined.  

Spoon the cookies into rounded teaspoons onto a greased baking sheet. Press town the top of each cookie gently with the back of a spoon or your finger.

Bake at 350' for about 20-22 minutes until cookies are golden brown.  Move to a wire cooling rack and allow to cool throughly.  

These cookies get better the longer that they sit!