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Rosh Hashanah, also known as the Jewish New Year, is one of the most meaningful holidays in the Jewish culture. The honey in honey cakes, one of the traditional sweets of the holiday, symbolizes the beginning of a sweet year. Since there’s no butter in the recipe, only oil, basically you could mix all the ingredients together in a bowl.
Easy! The signature honey gives the cake sweetness and a delicious flavor, but it’s also packed with other flavorful ingredients such as coffee/tea, cinnamon, cloves, and cardamom so it’s wonderfully scented. I suggest not skipping the cloves as they go perfectly with the honey and help to enhance the flavor, unless you don’t like cloves at all.
BEWARE – The cake batter rises like lava from a volcano. Use the correct pan. I don’t have a 9×13 inch cake pan. If I fill the pans I have (paper disposable cake pans available all over Israel) more than 1/2 to 2/3 the batter overflows all over the baking pan. Also always use parchment paper under the baking pan.
On the day before Yom Kippur it is customary to ask for and receive lekach (honey cake—signifying a sweet year) from someone—usually one’s mentor or parent.
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