Tiessennau Mel (Honey Cakes)

Ingredients:

4 ounces or 1/2 cup honey
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup plus 2 Tblspn brown sugar
caster sugar
1 egg
2-3 tablespoons milk
3 1/4 cups flour

Directions:

Preheat oven - Gas mark 6 (400F) or 7 (425F) or 200°C If you are using
a fan oven, reduce by 25°C.
Grease your muffin pan
Sieve together flour, cinnamon and bicarbonate of soda.
Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
Separate the egg yolk from the white.
Beat the yolk into sugar and butter, then add the honey, gradually.
Stir in the flour with a little milk as required and mix all together lightly.
Whisk the egg white into a stiff froth and fold into mixture.
Half fill small muffin pan with the mixture; dredge the top of each
with caster sugar.
Bake in a hot oven for 20 minutes. Watch these little fellows carefully.
They brown rather quickly.
When ready sprinkle a little more sugar

Thanks to Cornelia Amiri!