I tried to interview a local Rabbi at the Chabad center around this time of year being clueless until he said "not good time, busy, High Holy Days". As we come up to that time of year I thought Honey Cake might fit here. Anyone make it? https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/09/13/439573786/the-jewish-fruitcake-honey-cake-is-a-sweet-and-stodgy-tradition
Marcy Goldman is the author of several baking books, including one on Jewish baking, and she's heard all the complaints: Honey cake is too dense, too dry and too heavily spiced.
"Honey cake is considered the fruitcake of the kosher kitchen," she jokes. "The same resistance people may have to fruitcake, a lot of people have about honey cake."