Honey Cake: A Classic Recipe With A Photo Step By Step

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Classic honey cake: how to cook it right

The honey cake has a history of more than two hundred years. This dessert was extremely popular with our mothers and grandmothers due to the cheapness and availability of the products used. But even now the honey cake is loved by many, and it can be seen not only at the house of the housewives who love baking, but even in the menus of cafes and restaurants.

How to make a classic honey cake

For a long time of existence, honey cake has received several cooking options. Each housewife has her own special recipe, which differs from the rest with additional ingredients, the type of cream or decorations. But in the classic honey cake, only certain products are used in strict proportions, and it is not recommended to deviate from the rules of preparation.

For the cakes you will need:

• 4-5 Art. l. honey;
• 3 chicken eggs;
• 1 cup white granulated sugar;
• 200 g butter;
• 4 glasses of premium wheat flour;
• 1 tsp baking soda.

To make a cream, take:

• 400 g sour cream, 20-30% fat;
• 200 g sugar;
• 1 bag of vanilla sugar;

• 1–2 tsp honey.

  

  Honey, flour, eggs, sugar, butter, sour cream - what you need to make a honey cake

It depends on honey, or rather, its variety, what the finished dessert will be like. Dark honey such as buckwheat and chestnut honey have a strong aroma. But buckwheat can give a bitter aftertaste, like acacia honey, which, although it belongs to light and fragrant, starts to slightly bitter during heat treatment. And by the way, I recommend taking liquid honey, not candied honey: then you don't have to melt it for a long time to the desired consistency. The same goes for sugar. It is better to take powdered sugar, it will quickly mix evenly with sour cream.

1. Take a saucepan with a thick bottom, put honey in it and put it to heat. This can be done in a water bath. The honey should become liquid.

   

   Melt the honey in a saucepan or water bath until it boils.

2. In a blender, beat eggs and sugar until white foam. Add the softened butter and stir for another 2-3 minutes. Transfer to a bowl or saucepan.

   

   Beat butter, eggs and sugar with a mixer or blender

3. When the honey warms up and starts to boil, add soda to it, stir. At the same time, the mass should increase in volume. Combine it with the egg-oil mixture and stir with a spatula or spoon.

4. Add flour to the resulting mass in small portions, stirring constantly. As a result, you will get a soft and plastic dough that does not stick to your hands and does not dry due to the butter included in the composition.

   

   The dough for the honey cake should be soft and pliable.

5. Turn on the oven to heat it up to 200 ° C. Meanwhile, divide the dough into 6 equal pieces. Each of them must be rolled out in the shape of a circle no more than 0.5 cm thick (it is better to do this on parchment paper) and put in the oven in turn. Bake for 3-4 minutes.

   

   Bake the cakes until golden brown

6. When all the cakes are ready, make a cream. To do this, put sour cream, sugar, vanillin and honey in a blender. Whisk at maximum speed until a smooth, thick mixture is obtained.

   

   It is better to beat sour cream cream with a mixer or in a blender

7. Now the cake needs to be assembled correctly. Trim the cakes a little, carefully cutting off the baked edges. Cover the detachable form with food foil, spread a little cream along the bottom. Put the first cake, brush it with cream as it should. So alternate the cakes with the cream until the end.

8. Lubricate the top of the cake with a layer of cream, and use the rest for subsequent coating of the sides of the honey cake. Grind the crumbs into crumbs using a rolling pin or blender. Sprinkle most of the crumbs over the cake.

   

   A crumb of scraps of cakes will serve as a decoration for a honey cake

9. Cover the tin with foil and leave the cake for 2 hours at room temperature, then refrigerate for 6-8 hours. After that, transfer the honey cake to a dish by removing the foil and taking it out of the mold. Grease the sides of the cake with the remaining cream and sprinkle with crumbs.

   

   Lubricate the finished honey cake with the rest of the cream and sprinkle with crumbs on the sides

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The finished honey cake can be decorated with nuts, dried apricots, prunes or berries to your taste. Such a cake can be served on a festive table or enjoyed on weekdays. Bon Appetit!