Greek Honey Cake

Greek Honey Cake
This Cake Is Light And Aromatic
Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp cloves
1 tbsp orange zest
1 cup flour
1/2 cup nuts (pistachios, walnuts in any combination), crushed
*fresh berries optional
powdered sugar for dusting
Honey Syrup
Ingredients
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup water
1 tbsp lemon juice
zest of 1/2 lemon

Directions
Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Combine dry ingredients, zest and 1/2 cup of the nuts. Add to butter and sugar mixture alternating with buttermilk. Pour into 10" spring form pan. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Cool cake in the pan.
Bring syrup ingredients to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes.
Slowly spoon honey syrup over the cake. Cover and let sit at least several hours to absorb all the syrup.
Remove spring form sides. Dust with powdered sugar, serve with sweetened whipped cream and fresh berries

Serves 6-8