Recipe by Sara and Yossi Goldstein

Best Honey Cake Mix Hack

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10 Servings
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I’m so excited to bring you this super easy honey cake recipe hack for Rosh Hashanah, using a ready-made mix! It has everything you need in a honey cake. Warm spices, a moist, delicious texture, and -bonus!- less time in the kitchen! You can also use different shaped cake pans if bundts aren’t your thing. See the back of the cake mix box for baking times.

Ingredients

Honey Cake

  • 1 box Duncan Hines Spice Cake mix

  • 3 eggs

  • 1 cup water or cooled brewed coffee

Apple Cider Icing

  • 1 teaspoon apple pie spice

Directions

Prepare the Cake

1.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

2.

Mix the ingredients together in the bowl of a mixer or by hand, until everything is incorporated.

3.

Spray a bundt pan well with cooking spray and immediately transfer the batter to the pan. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the cake comes out clean.

4.

Cool for 10 to 15 minutes, then loosen the edges with a knife. Invert onto a large plate or cake dome.

5.

Cool completely before icing (see below).

Prepare the Icing

1.

Combine all the icing ingredients in a bowl. Start by adding in one and a half tablespoons of cider or juice and add up to three tablespoons as needed. Pour over the cooled cake.

Best Honey Cake Mix Hack

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GIna Friedlander
GIna Friedlander
5 days ago

This came out great. Lots of complements. I want to add something important. If you don’t have the spice cake mix, you can use yellow cake mix like I did. Just add the apple pie mix or cinnamon (3/4 t) and nutmeg (1/2 t) to the cake mix. Also, I highly recommend adding chopped walnuts.

Chana Fox
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Reply to  GIna Friedlander
3 days ago

Hi Gina,
These are some really good suggestions! Thanks so much for sharing your experience with us and helping other Kosher.com fans. Sounds absolutely delicious!

-Chana Tzirel from Kosher.com

Mushka
Mushka
1 month ago

Where do you find Duncan Hines spice cake mix? I haven’t found it anywhere

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Chana Fox
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Reply to  Mushka
1 month ago

I was able to find it on Amazon and Target.com. It may also be on Instacart. I hope you are able to find it and your honey cake comes out delicious! -Chana Tzirel from Kosher.com

GIna Friedlander
GIna Friedlander
Reply to  Mushka
5 days ago

See above…

Mushka
Mushka
1 month ago

Will this taste good without the icing?

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Chana Fox
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Reply to  Mushka
1 month ago

It will taste good, a little less fancy ;). Either way it’s delicious! -Chana Tzirel from Kosher.com

Erica Goldman-Brodie
Erica Goldman-Brodie
10 months ago

What am I doing wrong? It comes out very liquidy and sinks in the middle. When I leave it in longer, it’s dried out. Please help! Many thanks.

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Avigael Levi
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Reply to  Erica Goldman-Brodie
10 months ago

That could be because the pan is too small! What size pan are you using?

Erica Goldman-Brodie
Erica Goldman-Brodie
Reply to  Erica Goldman-Brodie
10 months ago

I use a bundt pan. BTW, yesterday, although sunken in the middle, it came out perfectly and on time!

Gail Adams
Gail Adams
2 years ago

Make Ahead I’ve made this cake several times and I love it. I’ve never made it ahead of time and frozen it. I would like to try this year, but I am worried about the glaze holding up by freezing it. Would you recommend baking the cake and freezing it, leaving the glaze off. Then after thawing make and apply the glaze?
Thanks,
Gail

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Raquel
Raquel
Reply to  Gail Adams
2 years ago

Hi Gail, yes exactly! I would recommend freezing without the glaze and adding it on last minute before serving!

Elysha Grauman
Elysha Grauman
3 years ago

AMAZING. Never going to make another honey cake recipe.

Lisa Pfeffer
Lisa Pfeffer
3 years ago

delicious!

Grace Timsit
Grace Timsit
3 years ago

Too easy an soooooo good! Doubled the recipe and made for the family .

chani Brown
chani Brown
3 years ago

How many small loaf pans would this make?