There are many recipes for honey, but the classic version is still the most popular - with sour cream. All technologies for making cakes in most cases are similar both in terms of methodology and set of ingredients, but each recipe has its own nuances.
Today we will take a closer look at how to cook a classic honey cake with sour cream. The top of our baking will be decorated in the form of bee honeycombs, and from almonds we will make cute “bees”. Such a simple decoration will surely interest children and amuse adults!
Ingredients:
For cream:
For decor (optional):
Have a nice tea party!
Among all the cakes that our grandmothers and mothers baked, Honey cake remains one of the most beloved. It is appropriate for any holiday, starting from March 8 and ending with a meeting. Those who have never tried to bake this cake are sure that it is very difficult. In fact, prepare “Honey” In this article we will introduce you to different recipes and share the options for creams.
But did you know that a seemingly simple "Honey" is a whole story that began about two hundred years ago? It is said that a mysterious culinary cook first prepared this sweet temptation for the beautiful Elizabeth Alekseevna, who was the wife of the Emperor and Autocrat of All-Russian Alexander the First.
Many years passed, the time changed, and with it the recipe. Honey cake simple, made from honey cakes and cream based on sour cream, is still the most beloved dessert.
So, if you decide to bake Honey, it’s easier to start with the basic, classic recipe.
To prepare the dough, prepare:
For cream you need:
First of all, we start kneading the dough. We take a saucepan from a stainless steel and drive eggs into it. Add honey, soda, sugar and mix thoroughly. We put on a strong fire and, without stopping mixing, wait until the mass increases in volume by three times and acquires a golden color. The consistency of the mixture should be foamy.
Remove the pan from the heat and slowly, in small portions, pour in the sifted flour, without stopping interfering. When the dough becomes homogeneous, divide it into eight equal parts.
We take a detachable shape of the right size, grease the bottom and sides with vegetable oil and spread the bottom with parchment. We spread the dough and gently, without using a rolling pin, level it on the bottom with your hands or a spoon.
We put in a preheated oven and bake each cake for 7-12 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. To pull out the cakes and still not damage them, we take out the bottom from the mold, turn it upside down with parchment and carefully remove it.
While our cakes are getting a golden blush, let's take care of the cream. To do this, take sour cream, combine it with sugar and beat well with a mixer or a hand blender. When the cakes are cooled and hardened, our cream must be carefully distributed between the cakes, spread the last cake on top and put the cake in the refrigerator for full impregnation. It usually takes 12 hours. Top of the finished goodies can be sprinkled with crushed walnuts or pastry topping. As you can see, cooking a classic Honey cake is easy!
If you are familiar with the basic recipe, you can try your hand at a more complex version. We propose to cook a delicate, tasty, aromatic, but more complex Honey cake. The recipe is simple, but it is only at first glance. In fact, he will have to tinker with it. But as a result, you get an airy, sweet, and at the same time not a sugary treat.
For the test, we need the following ingredients:
For cream, prepare:
As you can see from the list of products, this is not the easiest "Honey". But the effort is worth it!
We begin to cook, as always, with dough, which is kneaded in a water bath. To build it, you need to choose two pots. One should be big and the other a little smaller. The first is placed in the second.
Pour half the water into a large pot and put on fire. When the water boils, cut into large cubes of margarine, put in a smaller pan and put it in a large pan. Thanks to such an impromptu water bath, margarine will quickly melt.
When this happens, add sugar, honey and salt to it. Do not stop stirring until sugar is completely dissolved.
Break eggs into a separate container and beat them lightly with a fork. Then pour them in a thin stream into the total mass and mix. Thanks to the water bath, the eggs will not curl.
After a minute, add soda and mix thoroughly again. The mixture will magically begin to turn into a foamy mass and increase in volume. As soon as this happens, turn off the fire and begin to gradually add flour to our mixture. To avoid the formation of lumps, the dough must be constantly kneaded until smooth until it turns soft and pliable.
Divide the dough into 8 identical koloboks and roll each with a rolling pin. If the dough cools down and loses elasticity, it can again be put in a water bath, where it will heat up and will again be malleable.
We bake the cakes on a baking sheet using parchment at a temperature of 180 degrees for 10-15 minutes.
When the cakes are baked and cool, we proceed to prepare the cream. We cut the butter into cubes and soften it. Then open the jar of condensed milk and add to the butter. Mix thoroughly. Then turn on the mixer and whip the cream.
Coat the cooled cakes with plenty of cream, the ugliest cake can be crushed and decorate the cake on the sides and top. We remove the resulting culinary product for the night in the refrigerator, where it is impregnated and will reach the desired state.
Of course, you can’t say that cooking this “Honey” is as easy as shelling pears - what a water bath is worth it! And, nevertheless, efforts will not be in vain, because absolutely everyone will fall in love with this cake!
If there’s not much time, and there’s no particular desire to bother with the cake, you can prepare a quick “Honey”, a simple recipe with a photo of which we suggest to master (what’s useful?)
For the test we need:
For the cream we will use:
First things, peel the nuts and chop them with a knife or a blender. In a separate container, beat the eggs with the mixer with the addition of sugar and honey. Then add flour, nuts, soda and knead everything well. We form a large kolobok, put it in a bowl and cover with a clean towel or leave to rise in a warm place for 3-4 hours.
After this time, preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Take a baking sheet and cover it with oiled parchment. Then we divide our dough into 6-8 equal parts, each roll out in a thin layer and bake for 6-8 minutes.
When the skin has cooled and will be ready to smear, we begin to prepare the cream. To do this, beat sour cream with powdered sugar and vanilla. Then we coat each cake with cream and put our cake in the refrigerator. When served, it can be decorated with walnuts, crushed almonds or grated chocolate. Try to cook this “Honey”: the recipe is simple, quick to execute, and the dessert is very tasty.
If there is a crock-pot in the house, it’s as easy as baking “Honey” in it! This miracle helper will save your time and nerves. In addition, thanks to her, this dessert will be mastered even by one who has not once baked anything. So, we suggest you try this honey cake, which is easy to prepare. A simple recipe in a slow cooker will pleasantly surprise you with its convenience and absolute availability.
To make the dough, prepare:
For cream, we need half a liter of sour cream and 3 tablespoons of sugar.
First, beat the eggs with sugar until a cool foam forms. Then add honey and slightly whisk again.
Pour flour and soda gently into the resulting mass, mix the dough with a mixer until smooth and pour it into the multicooker bowl pre-greased with vegetable or olive oil. We set the “Baking” mode and wait until the miracle assistant makes our dough ready, then we take it out and cut it into long cakes with a long and sharp knife (the finer they are, the better).
To prepare the cream, beat sour cream and sugar. Then we form a cake, spreading cream on each cake. We put it in the refrigerator for impregnation. That's all!
And finally, we want to tell you another secret, thanks to which you can diversify the recipe. Honey cake is a simple and delicious dessert, but few people will be surprised. How can you diversify it? Of course, creams! Try to soak your honey cake with custard you will surely like it!
To make a chocolate cream, you need to take:
We mix everything except butter in a saucepan and cook over low heat until thickened. The main thing is to constantly stir so that lumps do not form. Leave to cool. Then we beat the butter and in small portions we introduce the custard mass into it. Beat non-stop until smooth. The finished cream should resemble 25% sour cream in density.
Homemade cakes always delight with a special taste. Yes, maybe they will lose to the purchased ones, if we compare by external signs, because professional confectioners have different ingredients, modern equipment, knowledge when home cooks have only a recipe, a whisk and a packet of flour and butter. To bake a nostalgic honey cake, a classic recipe with photos and step-by-step detailed instructions help to understand the intricacies of the preparation.
Honey cake, "turtle" or "Zebra", "Napoleon" - real greetings from childhood! It is worth remembering how mother or grandmother baked the night before, when the birthday was coming in the morning. It was a special pleasure for the birthday man to watch the process.
How easily mother’s (or grandmother’s) hands flutter, how flour crumbles, how before the eyes individual ingredients turn into one big, undoubtedly tasty and beautiful Honey cake, a classic recipe with a photo, it is visible step by step, in the process. Surprisingly, for most homemade cakes there is no need to take a dozen ingredients, everything is available.
Probably in 100-150 years it will be cooked at home, sold in confectioneries, because people will not stop loving. Such recipes are passed as a heirloom to new generations. Moms teach daughters (sometimes sons who love to cook), then they pass them on to their children. Although it would seem, why bake now? After all, there are so many pastry shops and baking centers. You can order any, even intricate cake, with any pattern or pattern, any shapes.
But for some reason, an ordinary Honey cake baked with custard gives odds to any of the culinary masterpieces. Even be crooked or crooked. But made by loving, native hands, it contains only natural, well-known ingredients, without thickeners, preservatives, dyes and other “joys” of the culinary industry. At home, on the contrary, it leaves a taste familiar from childhood, even the look!
Moreover, the classic recipe provides only affordable, inexpensive ingredients. It is not surprising, after all, many “nostalgic” cakes come from villages where only butter, fatty, tasty milk, homemade cream, sour cream are at hand. This was all used. Mistresses experimented with ingredients, so different cakes came out.
Of course, the army of losing weight Medovik seem a real source of calories. It's true. The cake is fatty; its use under the article “dietary dishes” will not work. However, holidays rarely happen in life, why not treat yourself, loved ones, especially children?
Eggs - 4 pcs;
Sugar - 180 g (this is a full glass);
Butter - 50 g;
Flour - 550 or 600 g;
Honey - 100g (this is 4 pain.spoons);
Soda - 1 m.spoon
Sour cream (fatty, 20%) - 500 g;
Sugar -180 g (this is a glass).
Condensed milk - a can (will be 360 \u200b\u200bg);
Butter -200g.
Take away 2 pots at once - one large, the other smaller. This recipe involves the preparation of a dough using an ordinary water bath. Choose a flat cover, the diameter of which you can measure the cakes. It is better to pull out the butter in advance, let it soften. It is important to use warm, soft, room temperature.
Condensed milk take milk, not condensed milk or condensed milk. Learn the composition. Proper, natural milk will contain nothing but milk, cream, and sugar. All. GOST of course changed, but the basic requirements for the composition remained.
A honey cake always takes time, if you do it the day after tomorrow, when tomorrow there is no time, you can only bake cakes in advance. Make cream with condensed milk tomorrow. Process the cakes, they will have time to soak until the day after tomorrow. Do not soak in advance, giving 2-3 days, for Medovik this is a lot.
Take a convenient, large dish, where you will then form the dough. Break the eggs there and beat with a whisk (or blender), adding sugar. A lush, light white foam should come out.
Add the already softened oil, followed by honey and soda. Using the largest of the pans, organize a steam bath and place the mixture there (after stirring). The time is 15-20 minutes. How to do it: pour water into the larger of the two pots, then install it on the stove on top of the smaller pan, there is a soda-honey mixture. Stir while the water in the lower pan boils, creating a bath.
Readiness is determined by appearance: here the mass has increased, darkened, acquiring a pleasant, honey tint. Gently add 1/3 of the prepared amount of flour. Stir, breaking all the lumps that form. Boil with flour for 1 minute, stirring. You need to get a liquid, monotonous custard dough with beautiful, caramel stains.
Sift all added flour. After removing the top pan (with dough) from the heat, mix to achieve a homogeneous mass. Add some more flour while stirring. Next, sift the remaining flour on the table, forming a slide. Pour the soda-flour mixture there.
Pouring flour, we begin to form the dough already under the cakes. Caution! The dough is still quite hot, touch carefully. The consistency of the test is plastic, medium toughness. Try to figure out how you will roll it out later.
Divide still warm dough into 8 equal parts by weight. From each we form beautiful, dark golden balls. then we hide them in a dark, cool place, let the dough infuse for 15-30 minutes. Conventional cling film will help with airing. There is no need to cool for a long time, otherwise the dough will become unpleasantly stiff, lose plasticity. Check if it has cooled down, it can be removed from the cold and rolled out already into cakes.
When working on cakes, make sure they are visually even. This will affect the overall shape of the cake, its taste. Having rolled out the first of the balls, we try it on the cover chosen for the cake layers. Cut the edges.
On flat cakes, prepare a flat, convenient baking sheet so that they fit freely, without bending the edges. Grease with oil, then lay the parchment. 3-4 minutes with 180 degrees will take to the cake. The main thing is to achieve a light brown, closer to golden shade.
Attention, cakes are quickly baked, change on time. You can of course reduce it from 180 to 160, then the baking time will be 6-8 minutes. You look just how powerful the oven is, how quickly it copes.
Pulling cakes, you need to cut them still hot, applying the lid. Trim everything.
That's it, ready-made, crispy cakes stand. Do not be afraid when they cool and solidify. This is normal for a custard recipe. Of course, some offer to buy cakes, but homemade is better. If you make a real Honey cake with sour cream, then let everything be homemade in it! Otherwise, just a store surrogate. After all, the cake has 50% taste of cake, 50% - cream.
Gather all the scraps obtained and mash using a rolling pin - go through as you do at the time of rolling or chop in another way that is more convenient for yourself. Some use a meat grinder, others like a thing that mashed potatoes, making mashed potatoes. The main thing is to grind all the scraps to a state of dust.
To prepare the cream, spread the sour cream in a convenient bowl, pour the sugar in it and whisk it. By the way, sugar should not be immediately sprinkled in a glass, but gradually, literally, in a spoon. Beating time - 15 minutes. The main thing is to get a lush, uniform snow-white cream.
Beat condensed milk separately by adding butter. The main thing is to use soft, but not completely melted butter. Beat briefly, achieve a homogeneous mass when the oil is merged with condensed milk.
That's all, it's time to get a beautiful, flat plate (under the cake) and grease the cakes. Alternate creams. By the way, a little secret. At the bottom of the plate, before setting the lower cake, pour a little from the sour cream, then the lower cake is soaked well. Make cream layers oily without sparing. Most will leave after soaking.
When collecting the cake, do not press the cakes tightly, otherwise most of the cream will drain, the cake will be worse saturated. The task is to save 95% of the cream there, between the cakes, as can be seen from the photos. However, both creams are quite thick, so the task is quite feasible.
Eggs - 2 pcs;
Honey - 3 b. spoons;
Sugar - 5 b. spoons;
Milk -125 ml;
Soda - 1 m.spoon;
Vinegar - 1 b. a spoon;
Flour - 25 b. spoons.
Butter - 400 g;
Milk -400 g;
Flour - 2.5 b. spoons;
Sugar - 6 b. spoons;
Cognac -1 tsp.
Korzhi. Take a convenient, deep, large bowl where you will form the dough. Stir the eggs thoroughly there, adding sugar. Use a spoon or whisk, fork, mixer (what is). Beating is not necessary, the main thing is to grind until the grains disappear.
Next added milk, honey. When the honey is solid, melt it a bit using a water bath or hold it by the stove. Next is the turn of adding already extinguished soda (extinguish it with vinegar).
Keep stirring. Gradually add flour, spoonful, depending on the consistency of the dough. 20 spoons may not be enough. When the dough comes out already fairly viscous, pour on the working (for future rolling) surface of the flour table, distribute. Place dough on top, another spoonful of flour on top. Everything, it's time to knead with your hands. The rest of the flour is already added arbitrarily, in the process.
See that the dough then holds its shape, it can be divided, then rolled out. Next, cut the finished dough evenly into 5-8 (depending on size) parts. The amount will affect the size, thickness of the finished cake layers, the height of the cake.
By the way, the secret of phased preparation for shortcakes is to make them thinner, then it is better to soak in cream, Honey cake will turn out more tender. Each cake is laid out alternately on an already greased baking sheet. Bake for a short time, 5-10 minutes, until tender.
You can make a cake shape by eye, cutting off the rest according to your choice or initially cooking something (for a round lid, for a square lid) so that the Honey cake has a certain shape.
Cream. This custard cake is made with the addition of milk. ¾ from milk, put in a saucepan on a fire, in the rest, ¼, dissolve the sugar, then add to the milk already on the stove. It is important here to stir, keep to a boil. Everything, a viscous, sweet mass will come out, which needs to be cooled, then portioned, add oil. Now it’s important to beat the ingredients well, to a creamy, airy structure.
It's time to collect the pieces in the cake. Make a beautiful, flat plate or cake stand. Secret: put a little cream there so that the lower cake is saturated along with the middle, on both possible sides. Everything, it's time to lay cakes. Remember, when processing each, it is important to maintain 95% of the cream between the cakes, so do not press hard, laying on top of the greased next.
By the way, the last (you can fry it) can be used as a whole for dusting, grinding it along with scraps. The baby will turn out large, go. With milk, the cake will be less high-calorie, and any figures can be made from ordinary mastic, if the cake is needed later on for a birthday or name day.
Most prefer condensed milk, but plain milk will also do. For taste, you can add some flavoring (any). To decorate traditionally by coating the sides, top with cream and then sprinkled with crumbs. A honey cake is always recognized by it.
Shelf life - no more than 72 hours, the finished Honey cake should be infused for 10-12 hours, it turns out all night. Therefore, before it was cooked in the evening to please the birthday man in the morning. Yes, the cooking time is decent, 2-3 hours, if done alone. Some housewives use the services of home helpers, why not?
Then making a delicious dessert becomes a family affair, together and more fun. It is worth remembering how often children loved to just sit nearby in the kitchen. Only the stirring was trusted, to break the egg. Mom (or grandmother) did the rest herself.
Honey is not needed buckwheat or acacia, although they are tasty. From them, the cakes are then slightly bitter, this is unpleasant. What is needed is liquid, homogeneous honey, then the dough will come out homogeneous. If honey succeeds, melt using a water bath. Thick honey does not lend itself to a blender.
It is important to warm the eggs, let them stand in the room before breaking. Sift flour, then it will gain lightness, airiness. When the dough is already kneading using a water bath, make sure that the water below does not drill in full, but gurgles. Regulate the fire.
If replacing soda baking powder, add slowly, only at the end. Some people, by the way, advise soda to pour not to the dough, but earlier, to the eggs. Then they will increase the volume.
Among all the cakes that our grandmothers and mothers baked, “Honey cake” remains one of the most beloved. It is appropriate for any holiday, starting from March 8 and ending with the celebration of the New Year. Those who have never tried to bake this cake are sure that it is very difficult. In fact, cooking “Honey” is as easy as shelling pears! In this article we will introduce you to different recipes and share the options for creams.
But did you know that a seemingly simple "Honey" is a whole story that began about two hundred years ago? It is said that a mysterious culinary cook first prepared this sweet temptation for the beautiful Elizabeth Alekseevna, who was the wife of the Emperor and Autocrat of All-Russian Alexander the First.
Many years passed, the time changed, and with it the recipe. Honey cake simple, made from honey cakes and cream based on sour cream, is still the most beloved dessert.
So, if you decide to bake Honey, it’s easier to start with the basic, classic recipe.
First of all, we start kneading the dough. We take a saucepan from a stainless steel and drive eggs into it. Add honey, soda, sugar and mix thoroughly. We put on a strong fire and, without stopping mixing, wait until the mass increases in volume by three times and acquires a golden color. The consistency of the mixture should be foamy.
Remove the pan from the heat and slowly, in small portions, pour in the sifted flour, without stopping interfering. When the dough becomes homogeneous, divide it into eight equal parts.
We take a detachable shape of the right size, grease the bottom and sides with vegetable oil and spread the bottom with parchment. We spread the dough and gently, without using a rolling pin, level it on the bottom with your hands or a spoon.
We put in a preheated oven and bake each cake for 7-12 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. To pull out the cakes and still not damage them, we take out the bottom from the mold, turn it upside down with parchment and carefully remove it.
While our cakes are getting a golden blush, let's take care of the cream. To do this, take sour cream, combine it with sugar and beat well with a mixer or a hand blender. When the cakes are cooled and hardened, our cream must be carefully distributed between the cakes, spread the last cake on top and put the cake in the refrigerator for full impregnation. It usually takes 12 hours. Top of the finished goodies can be sprinkled with crushed walnuts or pastry topping. As you can see, cooking a classic Honey cake is easy!
If you are familiar with the basic honey cake recipe, you can try your hand at a more complex version. We propose to cook a delicate, tasty, aromatic, but more complex Honey cake. The recipe is simple, but it is only at first glance. In fact, he will have to tinker with it. But as a result, you get an airy, sweet, and at the same time not a sugary treat.
As you can see from the list of products, this is not the easiest "Honey". But the effort is worth it!
We begin to cook, as always, with dough, which is kneaded in a water bath. To build it, you need to choose two pots. One should be big and the other a little smaller. The first is placed in the second.
Pour half the water into a large pot and put on fire. When the water boils, cut into large cubes of margarine, put in a smaller pan and put it in a large pan. Thanks to such an impromptu water bath, margarine will quickly melt.
When this happens, add sugar, honey and salt to it. Do not stop stirring until sugar is completely dissolved.
Break eggs into a separate container and beat them lightly with a fork. Then pour them in a thin stream into the total mass and mix. Thanks to the water bath, the eggs will not curl.
After a minute, add soda and mix thoroughly again. The mixture will magically begin to turn into a foamy mass and increase in volume. As soon as this happens, turn off the fire and begin to gradually add flour to our mixture. To avoid the formation of lumps, the dough must be constantly kneaded until smooth until it turns soft and pliable.
Divide the dough into 8 identical koloboks and roll each with a rolling pin. If the dough cools down and loses elasticity, it can again be put in a water bath, where it will heat up and will again be malleable.
We bake the cakes on a baking sheet using parchment at a temperature of 180 degrees for 10-15 minutes.
When the cakes are baked and cool, we proceed to prepare the cream. We cut the butter into cubes and soften it. Then open the jar of condensed milk and add to the butter. Mix thoroughly. Then turn on the mixer and whip the cream.
Coat the cooled cakes with plenty of cream, the ugliest cake can be crushed and decorate the cake on the sides and top. We remove the resulting culinary product for the night in the refrigerator, where it is impregnated and will reach the desired state.
Of course, you can’t say that cooking this “Honey” is as easy as shelling pears - what a water bath is worth it! And, nevertheless, efforts will not be in vain, because absolutely everyone will fall in love with this cake!
If there is a crock-pot in the house, it’s as easy as baking “Honey” in it! This miracle helper will save your time and nerves. In addition, thanks to her, this dessert will be mastered even by one who has not once baked anything. So, we suggest you try this honey cake, which is easy to prepare. A simple recipe in a slow cooker will pleasantly surprise you with its convenience and absolute availability.
First, beat the eggs with sugar until a cool foam forms. Then add honey and slightly whisk again.
Pour flour and soda gently into the resulting mass, mix the dough with a mixer until smooth and pour it into the multicooker bowl pre-greased with vegetable or olive oil. We set the “Baking” mode and wait until the miracle assistant makes our dough ready, then we take it out and cut it into long cakes with a long and sharp knife (the finer they are, the better).
To prepare the cream, beat sour cream and sugar. Then we form a cake, spreading cream on each cake. We put it in the refrigerator for impregnation. That's all!
And finally, we want to tell you another secret, thanks to which you can diversify the recipe. Honey cake is a simple and delicious dessert, but few people will be surprised. How can you diversify it? Of course, creams! Try to soak your Honey cake with chocolate custard, you will love it!
To make a chocolate cream, you need to take:
We mix everything except butter in a saucepan and cook over low heat until thickened. The main thing is to constantly stir so that lumps do not form. Leave to cool. Then we beat the butter and in small portions we introduce the custard mass into it. Beat non-stop until smooth. The finished cream should resemble 25% sour cream in density.
Despite the fact that for many Honey cake is associated mainly with holidays and home celebrations, in my family this cake is baked at least once a month. The thing is that Honey cake is my husband and father’s favorite cake, that’s why my mother and I pass each other this “culinary relay race” with stable regularity.
Cooking honey cake includes not only baking cakes, but also cooking cream. For this cake, I always use the same classic sour cream, which is best able not only to soak honey cake, but also to emphasize the taste of this homemade cake even more. For sour cream, fat sour cream with a fat content of 25% is best suited.
Another important feature of the recipe is the cheapness of the cake. Ingredients for honey cakes, of which Honey cake consists, are not very expensive, and most of them are always available in the refrigerator of any housewife.
If you have never cooked this cake before and you are afraid of culinary failures - the main thing is to follow all the cooking steps step by step and you will succeed the first time!