Strawberry & honey teacake
It tastes like spring and it makes you look real fancy.
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Strawberry & honey teacake
Serves 6-8
This cake. This CAKE!
This cake I ate direct from the plate. I didn’t even cut it into slices. I had one fork and over the course of an afternoon I ploughed my way through a good third of. this. cake. It is glorious (if I dare say so myself). It tastes like springtime, it smells like the strawberry shortcake page in the scratch and sniff book I was obsessed with as a child. It is heavily laced with wild honey. It is impossibly moist and light, and the honeyed cream, sandwiched between the layers of cake, is as light as a cloud.
It’s spring. Bees are everywhere, fresh strawberries abound and if you have any sense in the world you are going to make this cake, place it atop a red checked picnic rug, pop on a flouncy sun dress or some kind of breezy linen suit and spend the next warm morning devouring it in the sunshine, with a bottle of dry white wine and someone you’d rather like to kiss.