Southern Honey Cake

Ingredients:

1/4 cup pineapple juice

1/4 cup water

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

1 cup granulated sugar

3 eggs, at room temperature

1 cup cooking oil

1 cup honey

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon ground allspice

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 cup chopped pecans

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a small saucepan, combine pineapple juice and water; bring to a boil. Stir in soda; set aside.

In a mixing bowl, combine sugar and next 3 ingredients; beat at medium speed of an electric mixer until well blended. Combine flour and next 4 ingredients; add to creamed mixture alternately with pineapple juice mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix after each addition. Stir in vanilla and pecans.

Spoon batter into a greased 12-cup Bundt pan. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes; remove from pan, and let cool completely on wire rack.