Greek Honey Walnut Cake

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 1 cup walnuts
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 6 large eggs
• 1 tablespoon lemon zest, freshly grated
• 1 (8 ounce) container plain low-fat yogurt
• 3/4 cup water
• 2 large lemons
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup honey

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350.
• 2 grease a 13x9 metal baking pan.
• 3 in a food processor, with knife blade attached, combine walnuts with 1/4 c sugar and process until walnuts are finely ground.
• 4 combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and cloves in separate bowl.
• 5 in a large bowl, with mixer at medium speed, beat butter with remaining 3/4 c sugar until creamy.
• 6 add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• 7 beat in lemon peel.
• 8 with a mixer at low speed, alternately add flour mixture and yogurt, beginning and ending with flour mixture; beat just until better is smooth, occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula.
• 9 fold in walnut mixture.
• 10 spread batter in prepared pan.
• 11 bake 30-35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• 12 meanwhile, prepare syrup: from lemons, grate 1 t lemon peel and squeeze 3 t juice.
• 13 in a 1-qt saucepan, combine sugar, honey, lemon peel, and 3/4 c water; heat to boiling over high heat, stirring constantly.
• 14 reduce heat to medium and cook 2 minutes.
• 15 remove saucepan from heat and stir in lemon juice; cook slightly.
• 16 when cake is done, transfer pan with cake to a wire rack.
• 17 with a toothpick, poke holes all over top of cake.
• 18 spoon warm syrup over cake.
• 19 cool cake completely in pan before serving.
• 20 when cool, cut cake lengthwise in half, each half crosswise into four pieces, and each piece diagonally in half to form two triangles.