Classic honey cake recipe at home. Cake "Medovik" step by step recipe with photos

27.06.2020 Desserts and cakes

Good day! If you want to learn how to bake a honey cake at home or learn new delicious recipes, then this selection is for you. Take on all the options and surprise with a variety of honey dessert. I recommend!

Recipe for a special honey cake with cherries and butter cream

This is a special honey cake. And as for me, the most delicious in the world. Imagine how wonderful sweet cakes are combined with the pleasant sourness of butter cream with cherries. Very tasty, believe me.

The dough is prepared according to the classic version in a water bath. But with creams, I experimented several times, and chose a creamy one for this case. Why? Everything is explained simply - it soaks the cakes well, which is facilitated by both milk and cherry juice.

You can use all kinds of berries - fresh, frozen, canned. Only, of course, pitted.

So, we are preparing a set of products.

For the test you will need:

Half a pack of margarine (grams 125)
Sugar 180 gr.
Honey 2 tbsp
Flour gr. 400 (300 gr. For the dough, let the rest be for adding)
Soda 1 tsp
Eggs 2 pcs.
A little vinegar to set off the soda.

For buttercream with cherries:

Milk 200 ml.
Butter 400 gr.
Eggs 2 pcs.
Sugar 300 gr.
Cherry gr. 350 - 400 gr.

I advise you to buy store milk. In our case, the water in its composition will play a positive role - the cakes will be better saturated.

How to make a classic batter for honey cake in a water bath

While all the cakes are cooling down, you can do the cream.

Step by step preparation of butter cream

Break the eggs into a convenient saucepan.
Send sugar to them, grind the mass.
Pour in milk, bring to a boil with constant stirring. You do not need to boil for a long time. Remove from heat as soon as you see signs of boiling.
Cool when ready.
Whisk the butter.
Add the prepared mixture to it, whisk everything together. Taste it. The cream resembles a real condensed milk.
Remove pits from cherries.
Add them to the cream, stir the mass.
Refrigerate for min. at 30.

Everything is ready, you can start assembling the cake

Liberally lubricate all the cakes with cream, stacking them on top of each other. Coat the edges of the product so that they are juicy. Sprinkle the top and sides with crumbs. All is ready. The honey cake at home turned out to be great. Let it steep and soak. Better, of course, to bake overnight. The next day will melt in your mouth.

Enjoy your tea!

And as a bonus, a recipe for a delicious cream with sourness: whisk a can of condensed milk with a pack of butter. Add juice and zest of one lemon. It turns out such a treat that you can't pull anyone by the ears.

This article was originally planned for my old site myaltynaj.ru. But then I decided to make a separate website dedicated to cakes. So do not pay attention that the pictures are written myaltinaj.

Honey cake with sour cream, step by step recipe with photo

The honey cake with sour cream is unusually good. In this case, the sweetness of the dough and the acidity of sour cream are in perfect harmony. The finished product turns out to be extremely delicate and tasty.

The honey cake recipe with step by step photos will allow you to orient yourself correctly during the preparation process.

Honey 100 gr.
Sugar 200 gr.
Eggs 2 pcs.
Butter 50 gr.
Flour 400 gr.
Water 20 ml.
Soda 1 tsp
Sour cream 700 gr. (30 percent fat)
Sugar for cream two hundred gram glass
Vanilla sugar 10 gr.

If you do not have the opportunity to purchase fatty sour cream, then add a thickener to the cream. Otherwise, it will turn out to be liquid.

Step by step cooking process

Melt the honey in a saucepan over low heat. The honey should be hot, but you don't need to boil it.
Add soda to the honey, stir. Here we will see a lush and thick foam. Everything is correct, it should be so.
Pour sugar into a saucepan and pour in water.
Stir the mixture and put the saucepan on the fire again.
Stir and heat until sugar is completely dissolved. When this happens, thick foam will reappear.
Boil the mass over low heat for min. 5, stirring continuously. It will boil down a little and take on a beautiful caramel color.
Now remove from heat, add oil. Dissolve it while stirring the mixture. Then set it aside, let it cool a little.
Break the eggs into a separate bowl, chop them.
Add a bump to the cooled honey mixture, mix quickly.
We begin to gradually introduce flour, stirring the dough.
When it becomes thick enough, transfer it to the table. Mix with the remaining flour. The dough should be soft. I would even say slightly sticky. If your dough is spreading on the table, add another 50 - 70 grams of flour.
Divide the dough into pieces. There should be 8 to 10 of them.
Wrap each lump in plastic wrap, put it in the refrigerator for 40 minutes.
We will take out the lumps separately and roll them out on parchment for baking. For convenience, we will torture him with flour. You need to roll it out quite thinly, up to 3 mm thick. maximum.
Cut the layer evenly with a plate. The trimmings can be combined and additional cakes can be made. They will go for a cake and come in handy for crumbs.
We will prick the cake with a fork so that it does not bubble.
Together with the parchment, transfer the dough to a baking sheet, put it in a hot oven for 5 minutes. The required temperature is 180 degrees.
We will bake all the cakes, give time to cool.
Prepare the cream: mix the sour cream and sugar in a container. Add vanilla sugar and whisk until sugar dissolves. The cream is ready. Simple, as everything is ingenious.
Grind the crumbs from the cakes into crumbs. This can be done on a food processor or on a simple fine grater.
Now the best part is collecting the cake. We coat the cakes with cream, lay them in an appetizing stack. Do not forget to lubricate the sides too.
We decorate our work with crumbs from all sides, send it to the refrigerator for impregnation. This will take 5 - 6 hours.

And now you can enjoy the exquisite taste of the most delicate honey cake. Enjoy!

Did you notice that the dough was prepared differently than in the first recipe? There was a water bath, and this is a recipe for custard honey cake. You see, it was not in vain that I said that you need to copy all the options. Each is good in its own way.

Recipe for a delicious honey cake with custard and chocolate icing

And one more decent recipe. Its highlight is incomparable custard and chocolate
glaze. Be sure to use the recipe, you will definitely like it.

For the test we need:

Sugar glass (container 200 ml.)
Eggs 3 pcs.
Flour 3 tbsp. (Art. 200 ml.)
Butter 60 gr.
Honey 3 tbsp
Soda 3 tsp.

Cream products:

Sugar 1 tbsp (art. 200 ml.)
Butter 250 gr.
Eggs 1 pc.
Milk 200 ml.
A pinch of vanillin.

Glaze Ingredients:

Sugar 5 tbsp
Butter 75 gr.
Sour cream 5 tbsp
Cocoa powder 5 tbsp

Step-by-step process for making honey cakes

Making the custard

How to make chocolate icing

Now it remains to collect the cake. To do this, generously grease the cakes with cream, put them in a pile, pour glaze over the top, sprinkle the edges with crumbs. The top can also be decorated with crumbs, or you can leave it chocolate. It will be beautiful this way and that.

And to make the honey cake even tastier, you can pour glaze over each cake. But then you have to cook another portion, so see for yourself.

The product needs to be soaked. And you have a little patience. But it's worth it. The cake will become soft and very tender. And the taste - you will lick your fingers.

How to cook a delicious honey cake in a pan

Until I had this recipe in my piggy bank, I had no idea that a delicious honey cake can be cooked in an ordinary frying pan! But this is a fact. And to your attention - an amazing recipe with a photo.

The wish for the recipe is this - use a frying pan with a thick bottom. Cast iron, for example. So that the cakes would be well fried.

For the test you need to prepare:

Butter 100 gr.
Honey 60 gr.
Sugar 150 gr.
Eggs 3 pcs.
Sour cream 2 tbsp. (20 per cent)
Flour 400 gr.
Soda 0.5 tsp.

Cream products:

Sour cream 600 gr.
Sugar 100 gr.
Vanilla sugar 10 gr.

Making the dough and baking the cakes

Our handsome man is ready. Now you need to give him time to come to his senses, soak up the charms of the cream.
After 5 hours you can invite to the table. Help yourself to your health!

The honey cake has another affectionate name "Ginger". I advise you to watch the video recipe for its preparation at home.

A few general tips for making a Medovik cake according to the classic recipe: firstly, the number of eggs is indicated for category C-0 (these are large eggs), if you have a different category and eggs, respectively, of a smaller size, then take 4 pieces.

Secondly, the taste of the cakes is very dependent on honey: the darker the honey, the richer the honey taste will be in the cake. But be careful - dark honey can give a slight bitterness. You can take honey liquid or thick (I have the last option).

Let's start cooking our Honey cake (classic recipe).

In a bowl, whisk the eggs lightly.

In a small saucepan with a thick bottom, combine 200 g of sugar, honey and half of the butter. Let the honey melt over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Pour the eggs into the honey-butter mass and stir until the sugar and butter are dissolved. I cook for 5-7 minutes.

I add soda and leave it on fire for another minute. Everything should double in volume. I take it off the fire.

Pour the mixture from the saucepan into a large bowl and gradually add the flour. I knead the dough until smooth. Gently form a ball and let the dough cool for a couple of minutes.
I divide the dough into eight parts and roll each into a ball. I cover it with a towel so as not to wind out while the oven warms up (temperature 200 ° C).

I roll out a thin layer from each kolobok, prick it with a fork and send it to the oven (3 minutes per cake).

To prevent the crust from warping, roll it out directly on paper, and then transfer it to a baking sheet.

From the still warm cake, I cut out a circle or square of the required size.
I put what is left of the cakes in a blender and grind them - they will be used to decorate the cake.

Now you can start preparing the cream.

In the classic Medovik there is sour cream, but I propose to make two delicious creams at once: with condensed milk and sour cream.

When choosing sour cream for cream, you need to remember one thing - the higher the fat content of the sour cream, the more juicy the cake will turn out.

For sour cream, beat the sour cream with a mixer, gradually adding the remaining sugar. It will take 10-15 minutes of your time.

For the second cream, you need condensed milk without unnecessary additives. No condensed milk or condensed milk product with vegetable fats will go.

Beat the remaining softened butter with condensed milk into a homogeneous cream.

Among all the cakes that were baked by our grandmothers and mothers, one of the most beloved remains "Medovik". It is appropriate for any holiday, starting from March 8 and ending with a meeting. Those who have never tried baking this cake are sure that it is very difficult. In fact, make "Honey cake" In this article we will introduce you to different recipes and share the options for creams.

A delicacy for the empress

Did you know that a seemingly simple "Medovik" is a whole story that began about two hundred years ago? They say that a certain mysterious culinary specialist first prepared this sweet temptation for the beautiful Elizaveta Alekseevna, who was the wife of the Emperor and Autocrat of the All-Russian Alexander the First.

Many years have passed, the time has changed, and with it the recipe. The simple “Medovik” cake, made from honey cakes and cream based on sour cream, is still the favorite dessert.

Classics of the genre

So, if you decide to bake "Medovik", it's easy to start with just the basic, classic recipe.

To prepare the dough, prepare:

Eggs - 3 pieces.
Wheat flour of the highest grade - 3 glasses.
Honey - 3 rounded tablespoons.
Soda - 1 tablespoon.
Sugar - 1 glass.

For the cream you need:

Sour cream with a fat content of at least 20% - 800 grams.
Sugar - 1 glass.

Magic dough

The first step is to knead the dough. We take a stainless steel pan and drive eggs into it. Add honey, soda, sugar and mix thoroughly. We put on a strong fire and, without stopping stirring, wait until the mass increases in volume three times and acquires a golden color. The consistency of the mixture should be foamy.

We remove the pan from heat and slowly, in small portions, add the sifted flour, without ceasing to interfere. When the dough is smooth, divide it into eight equal parts.

Baking secrets

We take a detachable form of the required size, grease the bottom and sides with vegetable oil and cover the bottom with parchment. We spread the dough and carefully, without using a rolling pin, level it along the bottom with hands or a spoon.

We put in a preheated oven and bake each cake for 7-12 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. In order to pull out the cakes without damaging them, we take the bottom out of the mold, turn it upside down on the surface with parchment and carefully remove it.

The magic of the cream

While our cakes are acquiring a golden blush, let's turn to the cream. To do this, take sour cream, combine it with sugar and beat well with a mixer or hand blender. When the cakes have 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 saturation. This usually takes 12 hours. The top of the finished treat can be sprinkled with crushed walnuts or confectionery sprinkles. As you can see, cooking the classic "Honey" is as easy as shelling pears!

Thickened rivers, honey banks

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 "Medovik". The recipe is simple, but this is only at first glance. In fact, you have to tinker with it. But the result is an airy, sweet, and at the same time not sugary delicacy.

For the dough, we need the following ingredients:

Wheat flour of the highest grade - 500 grams.
Margarine - 100 grams.
Eggs - 2 pieces.
Honey - 2 full tablespoons.
Soda - 1 teaspoon.
Sugar - 150 grams.
Salt is on the tip of the knife.

For the cream, prepare:

Butter with a fat content of at least 72% - 250 grams.
Boiled condensed milk - 1 can.

As you can see from the list of products, this is not the easiest "Medovik". But the effort is worth it!

Water bath to help

We start cooking, as always, with dough, which is kneaded in a water bath. To build it, you need to choose two pots. One should be large and the other slightly smaller. The first is then placed in the second.

Pour half of the water into a large saucepan and set on fire. When the water boils, cut the margarine into large cubes, put it in a smaller saucepan and place it in a large saucepan. Thanks to this impromptu water bath, the margarine will melt quickly.

When this happens, add sugar, honey and salt to it. Do not stop stirring until the sugar is completely dissolved.

Break the eggs into a separate container and beat them lightly with a fork. Then pour them into the total mass in a thin stream and mix. The water bath prevents eggs from curdling.

After a minute, add the baking soda and mix thoroughly again. The mixture will magically begin to turn into a foamy mass and expand in volume. As soon as this happens, turn off the heat 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 out to be soft and pliable.

Divide the dough into 8 identical koloboks and roll out each with a rolling pin. If the dough cools down and loses its elasticity, it can be put back in the water bath, where it heats up and becomes pliable again.

We bake the cakes on a baking sheet using parchment at 180 degrees for 10-15 minutes.

Sweet moments

When the cakes are baked and cool, let's start preparing the cream. Cut the butter into cubes and soften it. Then open the can of condensed milk and add to the butter. Mix thoroughly. Then turn on the mixer and beat the cream.

The cooled cakes are abundantly coated with cream, the ugliest cake can be put on a crumb and decorate the cake on the sides and on top. We remove the resulting culinary product overnight in the refrigerator, where it will be soaked and reach the desired state.

Of course, it cannot be said that cooking this "Medovik" is as easy as shelling pears - one water bath is worth it! And, nevertheless, the efforts will not be in vain, because absolutely everyone will fall in love with this cake!

Hastily

If you don't have much time, and you don't really want to mess with the cake, you can make a quick "Honey cake", a simple recipe from the photo of which we suggest you master (what if it comes in handy?).

For the test, we need:

Eggs - 4 pieces.
Wheat flour - 3 cups
Sugar - 1 glass.
Honey - 1 glass.
Walnuts - 50 pieces.
Baking powder - 2 rounded teaspoons.

For the cream we will use:

Sour cream with a fat content of 35% - 400 grams.
Powdered sugar - half a glass.
Vanilla - 1 pinch

Handmade

The first thing to do is to peel the nuts from the shell and chop them with a knife or blender. In a separate container, beat eggs with a mixer with the addition of sugar and honey. Then we add flour, nuts, soda there and knead everything well. We form a large bun, put it in a bowl and cover with a clean towel or Leave it 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, roll out each in a thin layer and bake for 6-8 minutes.

Powdered sugar

When the skin is cool and ready to spread, we begin to prepare the cream. To do this, beat the 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 garnished with walnuts, crushed almonds or grated chocolate. Try to cook this "Honey cake": the recipe is simple, quick to perform, and the dessert turns out to be very tasty.

Multicooker assistant

If there is a multicooker in the house, baking Medovik in it is as easy as shelling pears! This wonderful assistant will save you time and nerves. In addition, thanks to her, this dessert will be mastered even by those who have never baked anything. So, we invite you to try this easy-to-prepare "Medovik". A simple recipe in a multicooker will pleasantly surprise you with its convenience and absolute availability.

To make the dough, prepare:

Wheat flour - 3 cups.
Eggs - 5 pieces.
Soda - just over half a teaspoon.
Sugar - 1.5 cups.
Honey - 5 tablespoons.

For the cream, we need half a liter of sour cream and 3 tablespoons of sugar.

Rather soon

First of all, beat the eggs with sugar until a cool foam forms. Then add honey and beat lightly again.

Gently add flour and soda to the resulting mass, mix the dough with a mixer until smooth and pour it into the multicooker bowl previously greased with vegetable or olive oil. We set the "Baking" mode and wait for the miracle assistant to bring our dough to readiness, then we take it out and cut it into cakes with a long and sharp knife (the thinner they are, the better).

To prepare the cream, beat the sour cream and sugar. Then we form a cake, spreading cream on each cake. We put on impregnation in the refrigerator. That's all!

Cream paradise

And finally, we want to tell you one more secret, thanks to which you can diversify the recipe. Cake "Medovik" is a simple and tasty dessert, but you will hardly surprise anyone with it. How can you diversify it? Of course, with creams! Try to soak your "Medovik" with custard you will definitely like it!

Chocolate fairy tale

To make chocolate cream, you need to take:

Eggs - 3 pieces.
Sugar - 150 grams.
Flour - 3 tablespoons.
Milk - 400 grams.
Starch - 1 rounded tablespoon.
Vanilla is on the tip of a knife.
Butter - 150 grams.

In a saucepan, mix everything except oil and cook over low heat until thickened. The main thing is to stir constantly so that no lumps form. Leave to cool. Then whisk the butter and add the custard mass in small portions. Beat without stopping until smooth. The finished cream should resemble 25% sour cream in density.

Honey cake is a win-win dessert that will please everyone and always: both at a cozy family tea party, and during any celebration. The classic honey cake recipe is loved by the household, and guests can be surprised by the new taste and aroma of the cake. In addition, baking a honey cake is not difficult, and you can do it in the oven, in a slow cooker, and even in a frying pan.

This is a classic honey cake recipe. The list includes basic products, without any of which something else will turn out. The good thing is that you don't have to mess with the cakes for a long time: there will be only two of them. Well, and, of course, in the kitchen of any hostess there is always something to make sour cream traditional for the classics.

You need to prepare:

butter - one hundred grams;
fresh chicken eggs - three pieces;
granulated sugar - half a glass for dough, a glass for cream;
honey - three to four tablespoons;
about 2.5 cups flour (you may need a little more);
soda - a teaspoon is enough;
fat sour cream - liter.

We start the dough.

We cut the butter with a knife. Then put the pieces in a saucepan and wait until they melt over low heat.
Add granulated sugar (half a glass) and honey. When you get a liquid syrup, pour soda into it. The mixture will begin to "grow" immediately.
While it cools down, beat the eggs until airy foam. We send it to syrup.
Then slowly add flour powder and mix it carefully: the consistency needs to be uniform.
If the dough flows too much, more flour is needed. It should not be steep, but still quite viscous.
Take a round baking dish with high sides. Lubricate the bottom with butter, put half of the dough and “smooth” over the container.
Preheat the oven to medium temperature and put the first cake there. It will bake for about 20 - 25 minutes. When it is golden brown and the toothpick comes out of it dry, remove it. Let it cool down.
Meanwhile, we send the cake from the second part of the dough for baking. We do everything in the same way as with the first one.
While the cake is ripe, prepare the cream. It's easy: you just need to beat a liter of sour cream with a glass of sugar. The mixer will help to cope with the task quickly.
We move one cake to a dish. Put the second one on top so that its lower part is the top of the cake. An interesting shape will turn out.
Thoroughly coat the cake with cream. Do not forget about the sides.
Now the dessert should spend several hours in the refrigerator. During this time, the cream will thoroughly saturate the cakes. Mamin's cake according to the classic honey cake recipe with sour cream is ready.

"Miracle" with custard

Miracle honey cake is a truly exquisite dessert, the taste of which your guests will remember for a long time.

It is not so difficult to prepare it, and you will need products that are quite affordable:

sifted flour - 400-450 grams;
granulated sugar - 380-400 grams;
four chicken eggs;
sour cream 20% fat - 100-120 grams;
butter (softened) - 260-280 grams;
liquid honey - two or three tables. spoons;
a teaspoon of baking soda;
milk is a glass.

We are acting according to this plan.

Let's start with a creamy blank.

Pour milk into a saucepan (or saucepan). In it - a spoonful of flour, an egg, sugar (about half).
We mix everything. We put the container on a fire of minimum strength and brew the cream: a homogeneous consistency should be obtained.
We set aside the "semi-finished product" to cool.
When its temperature drops to room temperature, add sour cream and soft butter. Mix with a mixer.

The next step is the dough.

Put all the remaining sugar, honey and 80-90 grams of soft butter in a deep bowl. We make a mixture. It will need to be sent to a water bath to melt.
When we see that the sugar has dissolved, we introduce three testicles in turn. Mix and again - in a water bath, for four to five minutes.
Then add flour and soda. After kneading, the dough is obtained.
We divide it into seven identical parts. We roll each one out - these are future cakes.
The oven has already reached the desired temperature - 200 C. It's time to sprinkle the bottom of the baking sheet with flour, put the cakes in turn and send them to the oven.
We cut out circles from the finished layers - you can use a plate of a suitable size. Break the rest of the dough into crumbs - to decorate the cake.

Now we are "building" a honey cake.

Every one of the cakes in turn is generously covered with cream. We put one on top of the other. Pour the cooked crumb on the very top.
Do not forget to cover the sides of the honey cake with cream.
After that, put the "Miracle" in the refrigerator. After eight hours, you can feast on.

It must be remembered: the cream turns out to be homogeneous and especially tasty if it is made from components of the same temperature.

We bake with condensed milk

There are a great many types of cream for honey cake. But it is possible not to strain and not to conjure over the cream, saving time and effort. The classic recipe for honey cake with condensed milk is an excellent confirmation of this.

Ingredients will be needed:

condensed milk (can be boiled) - it is high-quality milk from an iron can, not a "condensed product";
granulated sugar - not less than a glass;
raw testicles - three pieces;
butter (can be replaced with butter margarine) - 50 grams for the dough and another 200 for the cream;
up to 600 grams of flour;
soda - a teaspoon;
honey (if there is no natural, artificial honey is also suitable) - 4th table. spoons.

We adhere to the instructions.

Beat the granulated sugar in the company of eggs until a white airy foam. To cope faster, turn on the mixer. Then add honey, soda and soft butter, mix a little. Next, the mixture is waiting for a water bath. Stir and wait until the volume becomes larger.
Now add a third of the flour, mix carefully. Has the mass thickened? So it's time to take off from the bath.
In a thin stream, slowly, add the rest of the flour powder. Knead, receiving honey dough.
Divide it into six pieces, roll it into balls. They need a little, about 15 minutes, to "rest" on the table.
Roll out all the lumps. Then they must be baked. The oven should be heated to 160 C, baking time should be 5 to 7 minutes.
Cut the still lukewarm cakes evenly, give the shape of squares. Finely chop the trimmings and set aside for a while.
We took the oil from the refrigerator long ago, it is already soft. Whisk together with condensed milk.
Densely cover each cake with this cream, collect the cake. We will cover the surface with crumbs and also apply a crumb. Let's not forget about the sides.
Then we put the honey cake in the refrigerator for half a day. Then we serve it on the table, delighting the household and guests with a wonderful taste.

If you roll out the dough when it is slightly warm, and take liquid honey, the cake will come out flawless.

Dessert without main ingredients

It happens that they started a honey cake, but not all the products are at home, and there is no way to run to the store or the market. There are a couple of recipes that exclude from the list, for example, eggs and even honey.

When there are no eggs

There is not a single testicle left in the refrigerator, but you want a cake? So we can do without them.

Because we have for the test:

three and another half glass of flour;
2/3 cup granulated sugar;
a pair of table. spoons of sour cream and fragrant honey;
one and a half teaspoons of soda;
half a packet of good butter margarine (even better if butter is available).

For the cream:

half a glass of sugar - fine and white;
half a liter of fatty thick sour cream;
100-150 grams of dried apricots (possibly prunes).

What do we do next?

We heat the oil in a water bath. As soon as it "floats", add honey and sugar to it, without wasting time, stir quickly.
We also send sour cream and a glass of flour powder there. Mix again.
We extinguish the soda with vinegar right above the pan, immediately send it to the mixture. Mix again and remove from the bath. Let it cool for five to seven minutes.
Pour in flour little by little (how much it will take) and knead the dough. Divide into six parts. We wrap each one in foil and place it in the freezer for about twenty minutes.
We take out one at a time, unfold each in the desired shape on a sheet of parchment. We prick it with a fork and move it to the oven (there is already a temperature of 180-200 C). The cakes are baked quickly, literally from three to six minutes. They are very delicate and brittle (there are no eggs in the dough). So we handle them carefully, let them cool completely right on the parchment.
Our sour cream for cream hung for a couple of hours in a bag of gauze over a saucepan, parted with excess liquid and whipped with sugar. And dried apricots (or prunes, or all together), after a 10-minute bath of boiling water, are dried and shredded with straws.
We "construct" a honey cake: we grease each of the five cakes with cream and cover with a thin layer of dried fruit. Remember that the sides are also waiting for a good portion of "lubrication". Crumb the sixth shortbread and sprinkle thickly on all the surfaces of our dessert.
Let the cake sit in the refrigerator for at least eight hours. So it will be thoroughly saturated with cream and will melt in your mouth.

Honey cake without honey

Oddly enough, it also happens. Instead of a bee product, this recipe uses maple syrup or molasses. By the way, you can do it yourself. For the original honey cake, you will need the same products and the same steps as for most of the previous recipes.

But if instead of missing honey we take molasses, we need:

180 grams of granulated sugar;
a pile with a quarter of water;
on the tip of a knife, soda and citric acid.

Before making molasses, let us remind ourselves of the following rules: you need to do everything quickly and without mistakes (otherwise nothing will come of it); you will need to apply molasses as soon as we cook.

As soon as the water boils, add sugar there. In no case do we climb into the saucepan with a spoon! Stir by turning the vessel itself.
Are the crystals completely dissolved? Wonderful. Cook for more (no longer than 10 minutes). The syrup is ready when a drop of it in ice water is not soft. We check every minute so as not to have a hard sugar ball that is not suitable for us.
As soon as the mixture reaches the required consistency, do not yawn: immediately add soda and lemon and stir actively. Is it foam? This means that we are doing everything right.
We remove from heat only after the foaming has passed by itself.
The finished molasses looks just like liquid honey. We will introduce it into the dough.

Honey cake is a cake loved by many since childhood. it relatively low calorie dessert with a delicate pleasant taste. However, not everyone knows how to make a honey cake with your own hands. There are several recipes for the cake, its taste can be varied as desired. Cooking a honey cake is a rather time-consuming process. You need to bake the cakes, make cream, collect the cake. It takes a lot of time to soak the cake with cream. But it's worth it, because the result is an excellent dessert for a festive table with a taste of caramel and honey.

To make the cake tender and melt in your mouth, you need to take into account the nuances of its preparation... Cooking a honey cake is not difficult, you just need to choose the right products, observe proportions and know some cooking rules:

To bake a cake, you need to take liquid honey. If the honey has already become sugared, it must be melted in a water bath. A liquid product will make it easier to knead the dough.
Light honey is suitable for a honey cake. Dark honey tastes too strong. And also do not take buckwheat honey, otherwise the cake will turn out to be too tart.
The honey cake will turn out to be soft and tender if the dough is heated with steam. To do this, you need to boil water in a saucepan. And put the second pan inside the dishes so that it does not touch the bottom of the water.
It is necessary to strictly observe the amount of sugar indicated in the recipe, since honey also gives a sweet taste to the cake. If you put a lot of sugar in the dough, the honey cake will turn out sugary.
Only warm dough is rolled into the cakes.
To get a delicate honey cake, it is better to use sour cream. Sour cream gives a pleasant taste to the cake and makes the cakes airy.
For the cream, you should take fat sour cream. And instead of granulated sugar, it is better to use powder. Before making the cream, sour cream needs to be cooled, so it mixes more easily with powdered sugar.
You can add condensed milk or cocoa to sour cream for cream. And you can also replace sour cream with these products.
The taste of the cake can be varied by adding prunes or walnuts to the cream.
Before collecting the cake, you need to put a layer of cream on the dish and spread the first cake on it. Always start the cake assembly with the cream, not the cakes.

Honey cake recipes

Making a honey cake consists of several stages:

It's better to cook a honey cake 1 day before usesince it takes about 12 hours to soak the cake. It is not recommended to soak the honey cake for 2 - 3 days.

Classic recipe: "Tenderness" honey cake

For making cakes you will need 600 g of flour, 300 g of sugar, 50 g of butter, 150 g of honey, 1 teaspoon of soda, 3 eggs. According to the classic recipe, 2 types of cream are used in the cake: sour cream and condensed milk. To prepare a cream from sour cream, you will need 500 g of sour cream (fat content at least 20%), 300 g of sugar. For condensed milk cream - 1 can of condensed milk (360 g), 200 g of butter.

Honey cake with nuts and prunes without rolling the cakes

To make this version of honey cake it takes a little time. For baking cakes, you will need 100 g of sugar and butter, 150 g of honey, 3 eggs, 350 g of flour, 1 teaspoon of soda. To make the cream, you need 0.5 kg of sour cream (25% fat), 300 ml of cream (35% fat), 5 tablespoons of powdered sugar, 300 g of pitted prunes and 200 g of walnuts.

Honey cake "Ryzhik" with custard without water bath

Honey cake can be cooked without steaming the dough. For a cake according to this recipe, you will need 1 glass of sugar, 2 - 3 eggs, 2 tablespoons of honey, 2 teaspoons of soda, 3 glasses of flour, 100 g of margarine. For the cream, you need to take 0.5 liters of milk, 125 g of sugar, a bag of vanillin, 4 tablespoons of flour and 2 eggs.