Lane’s Honeybun Cake
We have a VERY SPECIAL guest blogger today – my seven year old nephew, Lane! Let me tell ya, no one has ever been prouder to be on Southern Plate than him. I had no idea that he wanted to post until my sister said a few weeks ago “Lane thinks if he makes his Honey Bun Cake and takes pictures you’ll put him on Southern Plate.” My immediate response was “Well of course, I will!”
My mother helped him make this cake and she took all of the photos. She says:
Nothing thrills me more than knowing that kids read this site. I have several parents who list Southern Plate among one of the few websites they allow their children to go to and I want to let you all know that this is a great honor for me and one I do not take lightly. Southern Plate is and always will be a family friendly site and children will always be honored guests. The next generation keeps past generations alive. If you are a kid who reads Southern Plate, thank you from the bottom of my heart!
All of your kids are welcome on Southern Plate. If any of your children see this post and wants to be featured on the site, simply upload a photo of them to my Southern Plate Family page on Facebook and I’ll put them in a post as a “Featured Reader Of The Day”.
Hello Lane!!
Here are the ingredients for Lane’s Honey Bun Cake: 1 Box yellow cake mix, vegetable oil, eggs, sour cream, brown sugar, pecans, cinnamon, honey.
For the glaze you’ll also need: Confectioner’s sugar, Milk, and Vanilla.
Mix together: Cake mix, Eggs, Oil, and Sour Cream.
Beat with an electric mixer on about medium for about two minutes.
Prepare the topping by measuring out brown sugar..
And mixing it in a bowl with cinnamon and pecans.
Mix that up really well. See how focused he is?
Spread cake batter in a greased 9×13 inch pan. Drizzle 1/4 C honey over batter.
You can approximate the honey 
.
Spoon topping ingredients over this.
Take a butter knife and cut through the top a bit in a swirl pattern to combine it just a weeee bit.
Bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes, or until done.
Once done, it will look like this.
and if kids are around, they will smell it and smile like this, too!
Prepare a glaze of confectioners sugar, water, and vanilla.
Just place them all in a bowl and stir until well combined and smooth.
Spoon over warm cake.
Grin like a Cheshire Cat!
Take a bite…
Think about whether or not it is as good as it smells…
Decide that it DEFINITELY is…
And KICK UP YOUR HEELS!!!
I think I’m gonna eat my next meal like this…
Honey Bun Cake
- 1 box plain yellow cake mix
- 1 cup sour cream
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 4 large eggs
Filling
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 3 tsp cinnamon
- 1 cup finely chopped pecans
Glaze
- 2 cups confectioner’s sugar
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1 t. vanilla
What you learn…teach….what you get….give!
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I have been looking for a honey bun cake recipe. Thank you, Lane for sharing. When we go shopping on Saturday I’ll make sure to get the ingredients to make this. Just can’t let my dad know it has sour cream in it.
Wow! Great recipe, Mr. Lane – that looks soooo yummy. I’m going to have to print this recipe out, put it in my giant recipe binder in my kitchen and serve it to guests when they come to our house. And when they ask, “Yum, what is this?” I’ll say, “It’s Lane’s Honeybun Cake.”
Lane, what a great job of teaching us your recipe! I think I’ll show this to my son, Jared, this afternoon (he’s 7)…maybe he’ll help me fix up a batch of honey bun cake! It looks yummy. Anything with cinnamon and honey can’t be a bad thing. Your reaction to sour cream reminds me of Jared’s reaction to buttermilk last week. He decided he loved buttermilk pancakes, so he wanted to drink buttermilk…and I warned him that it wasn’t as sweet as the pancakes. So he tried a little sip. I’ve got to hand it to him…he was a sport about it! He just decided he’d stick to the buttermilk pancakes from now on.
Thanks for sharing your recipe! I’ll definitely try it.
Amy Pope
Very Nice Lane! I bet you will grow up to be more famous than Emeril.. heck, even more famous then Aunt Christy!
Thanks for the recipe sir.
Lane, this cake looks fantastic! Thank you for sharing the recipe. My daughter Faye (age 9) and I will be making it as soon as we get some pecans. Thanks again, Lane, and to your Aunt Christy, too. Faye and I are big fans!
Ooooh Lane, this looks so yummy! I wanted to make a cake today and just couldn’t decide what kind. Thanks for helping me make this difficult decision!
That is soooo stinkin’ cute! I love to do stuff like this with my neices and nephews! Things they could never get away with at home!!! =)
Wow Lane this looks amazingly yummy. Thanks for sharing such an easy recipe. We like easy and delicious recipe. See there is another coffee cake to make.
MMMMMM, looks positively YUMMY!!! Lane, you did a FABULOUS job showing us how to make this cake! Your Aunt Christy must be so proud! I know without a doubt that my hubby is going to LOVE the “Lane HoneyBun Cake,” and I can hardly wait to bake one for him. Thank you, Lane (and Christy, too)!!!
Lane, thank you for the recipe and it looks GREAT! Good job putting this together; I can’t wait to make one of these for my family too!
This looks fabulous, Lane! I am sure my husband and mother-in-law will just me making this for them. They love sweets! Thanks for sharing!
This looks fabulous, Lane! I am sure my husband and mother-in-law will just love me making this for them. They love sweets! Thanks for sharing!
Congratulations Lane! You did a wonderful job on that cake kiddo! I am going to have to make one too. I bet it smells soooooo good while it’s baking. You proved that kids can be really good bakers and cooks as well as great helpers to their Moms (and Grandmas) in the kitchen. Thanks for introducing us to Lane, Christy, he is a keeper.
I didn’t even know what honeybun cake was. We don’t have it here in Canada that I know of, so when I serve your cake, Lane, they are going to be AMAZED that a young man knows how to make anything, let alone something this AMAZING!!! Thanks for sharing how to make it, Lane. I think pretty soon you will have to be a regularly featured guest cook!!
Mama and I are anxiously awaiting Lane’s arrival from school so he can read all of these comments! He is going to puff up just like a peacock!
Mama emailed his teacher as soon as I posted this so she could show it to the class, too!
Thank you all SO MUCH! I know you realize how much all of your comments will mean to him!
So Gratefully,
Christy
Lane, wow that looks like a super good cake! Thank you for the wonderful tutorial, we will be making this soon!!! I have four sons and they sit at the table like you did!
Awesome job Lane!! It look super yummy!!!! I can’t wait to try it!!!
Way to go, Lane! I love your smile and your focus as you go about your baking magic in the Southern Plate tutorial. I know that your whole family is very proud of you and all of us are thankful that you decided to share your famous recipe with us. It looks so good.
Lane this sounds great I have three little beaks that will love this. Thank you for sharing it with us.
We also made the apple butter yesterday….its so good we could eat it like soup…
Thanks again Lane and Christy
Go Lane! This looks great!!
Oooh, Lane, that cake looks yummy! I’ll have to have my boys help me make one of these. Thank you for sharing your recipe with us.
Thanks a lot! I’d like to see one of your kids recipes on Southern Plate. I hope you enjoy my cake.
Oh, Lane — If I could have you come to my house to make this cake, THAT would be the icing on the cake.
Wow Lane, what an awesome cake you made! It looks so yummy! My 7 & 3 yr old can’t wait to get into the kitchen and make your cake. Thank you so much for sharing it with us!
Oh Pardon me while I gush Mrs. Christy but I just got a fabulous KitchenAide stand Mixer in RED yep thats what I said Red its just divine He sat that puppy on the counter and I just could not stop hugging it (he is lucky i didn’t try draggin that sucker to bed too) Needless to say I am in love OK so the reason for My Rant Can I use my new found love in the making of this cake I have already ruined dinner last night trying to make pizza dough so I may need a lil help got any professional advice?? thanks Lane is a cutie I need to have me some babies before My body shuts done the factory
YAY JESSICA!!!
You know, I got mine on my thirtieth birthday. I was COMPLETELY surprised. Mama, Daddy, and my grandmothers all went in on it together and when I opened it up…WOW.
I keep it sitting right on my countertop – and of course it is RED!!
Did you use the dough hook for the pizza dough? That thing is a wiz when it comes to kneading bread dough.
I use mine for just about everything, usually about once a day or so. It also makes excellent mashed potatoes with the whisk:)
Christy
I am definitely going to give this cake a whirl. I sounds devine!!!
Oh Thank You, Lane, for this recipe!! My husband LOVES this cake and now I can make it for him! He says “Thank You” too!!!
:)
Lane…you rock!! Can’t wait to try this recipe with my grandchildren.
Just yesterday my youngest granddaughter and I made a oatmeal cake. Will be fun to try this one too! Thanks for sharing!!
Christy…loved that you put my quote submission with Lanes recipe today. The quote is how I see life…and I love teaching the love of cooking to my grandchildren.
Oh Lane, it looks great!!! Fantastic job!
Lane, I can’t wait to try this. My sister eats Little Debbie honey buns every morning for breakfat. I am going to fix this for her. She is such a picky eater; but I know she will love this. Thanks to Grandmama for taking the pictures and helping you make your cake. Thanks to Aunt Christy for sharing her SPECIAL nephew.
I was thinking as I read this that I might make this cake someday…but then I got to the end of the post and saw how satisfied Lane looked after eatin’ it…and I knew right then and there that I’m baking this cake now! Thank Lane and your mom for the great post today. I enjoyed reading about it as much as I’m gonna enjoy eating it!
Rita-Greer, SC
Lane, outstanding job! and boy are you a cutie pie! i will have to try this recipe for my family, it looks fantastic. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. Thank you for sharing this Lane, look forward to more posts from you.
Thanks, Lane!! I’m going to try this today!!
Dear Lane
We don’t have this cake in England, so I have never heard about it before.
After seeing your excellent tutorial however, I must try and make it. It looks so scrummy,and by the smile on your face it tastes as good as it looks.
Well done!
Good Morning to all. I am wakin gup to a cold, gray, misty, windy day and I am so wishing Lane would cut me a warm slice of his HoneyBun cake. maybe my grandaughter and I willmake that our baking project this weekend. It looks delicious and I am so glad you spend time with your grandma doing fun things. You have no idea how much that means to the grandmas of the world! My grandaughter calls me “Nana” so I won’t feel so old. LOL.
I had never heard of it! Thanks for sharing! Looks yummy!
OMG! I love it! Could he be any cuter? I want to eat him up instead of the cake! What a cutie! Those smiling cheeks remind me of my son’s! I went to steal a little “nibble”, I mean kiss, last night, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle if he hadn’t made a fort with his blankets and made those cheeks unaccesable!
I have come across many recipes for Honey Bun cakes. Having never eaten one, or seen one (in person or in a picture) I have always been skeptical about trying the recipe.
After seeing this post, and how much fun Lane had making it, it is now on my “soon to try” list.
Thanks to Lane, my hubby will now get to taste test a new recipe.
Awww Lane, ‘YOU THA MAN!’ I just love me some Honey Bun Cake and I’m sure going to try your recipe. Thanks for your post. I’m going to eat mine with my feet on the table too….I think it will make it taste better! hee hee
Lane,
That cake looks so good I can almost smell it right through the computer! Thanks for sharing the recipe.
Your Aunt Christy got me so excited about day trips that we took our grandchildren to Falls Mill and Scott’s Apple Orchard on Fall Break last week. They are 8 and 6 and they helped me make Applesauce when we got home. Then Sunday afternoon we made Caramel Chocolate Apples with Sprinkles. Their mother just raved about both, but especially the Caramel Chocolate Apples.
Keep up the bakin’!
Aunt Charley
Lane rocks!!
I tried this cake it is another good recipe. Tell Lane Thanks he knows whats good.
This looks so wonderful – like a giant Honeybun! The next cake I bake will be Lane’s Honeybun Cake!
He’s a cutie!
I made this cake today….but….I just wrote the recipe down without reading all through the steps above the recipe. The pictures show honey being drizzled on the cake mix…but the recipe says mix it all together….I had a real mess! LOL Thank goodness it still is totally delicious, but I am going to go fix my recipe right now so I don’t make the same mistake next time….and there will be a next time. Thanks!!!
Dear Lane,
My husband has a meeting with all his staff every Monday, so I try to send something that is a kind of sweet or muffin to send in with him. I made your Honey Bun Cake (HBC) and heard wonderful things about just how absolutely delicious it was!!! Thank you for sharing and making some hard-working adults verrrry happy today. ~waves~ Bye!
Looks like he had the time of his life making that cake. Looks yummy! I’ll have to try that some time soon!
Lane, you are awesome. I bet someday you will be a great chef! Keep up the good work.
I must say that this cake is AWESOME!!! My family loves it and I have already made two of these cakes. Great job and great recipe. This will definitely be a recipe I go to!!
WOW, Lane, I never had anything like this. I can’t wait to make it for our Thanksgiving table…….and I can’t wait to tell them that it’s Lane’s Honey Bun Cake. Great job. My son always loved to bake with me & now he has three little girls that he’s teaching to bake too. Thanks for sharing!