Classic honey cake

The classic honey cake is a dessert of noble origin, since it was the Russian emperors who first appreciated it. The cake quickly gained popularity, and now there are dozens of variations of its recipe. Honey cakes are usually baked in large quantities and layered with sour cream or other cream. A prerequisite for a delicate honey cake is long-term soaking, for 8-10 hours.

Honey cake: a classic Soviet-era recipe

In Soviet times, honey cake was often called “Ryzhik” because of the bright brown color of the cakes. The dough was prepared in a water bath, the cakes were soaked in sour cream, and the finished cake was sprinkled with crumbs from scraps of baked dough.

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   How to make honey cake according to the classic recipe? Prepare the dough base in a water bath. To do this, heat water in a saucepan. Place butter, sugar, soda and honey in a container of suitable diameter (so that it stays well on the pan, but does not touch the water in it), and melt, stirring.
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   Remove the melted mass from the heat. It should be of uniform consistency and rich dark yellow color.
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   In a separate bowl, beat the eggs with a mixer.
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   Combine beaten eggs with melted butter, sugar, honey and soda. Make sure that the sweet mixture is not too hot, and pour in the eggs gradually, mixing the entire contents.
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   Sift the flour in advance and add small portions to the egg-honey mixture. Or you can immediately add flour through a sieve, kneading the dough periodically. The dough should be thick but soft.
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   Form the dough into a denser piece. To do this, pour flour onto a work surface and roll the dough in it, kneading it until you get a flexible, pliable mass that does not stick to your hands.
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   Give the dough the shape of a loaf (cylinder) and divide it into the required number of parts - according to the number of planned cakes. You can roll the pieces into balls and cover with a napkin while you roll out the layers.
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   On a piece of parchment or silicone mat, roll out each lump of dough into a very thin circle. Align the edges of the circle using a mold or any vessel of a convenient diameter. Uneven edges do not need to be trimmed, but broken off after baking.
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   Bake the cakes one at a time in a hot oven at 200 degrees. Each cake takes approximately 2-3 minutes.
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    Grind the scraps of baked dough in a blender or crumble by hand.
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    Prepare sour cream by whipping sour cream with powdered sugar and adding lemon juice.You can add a little vanillin. Let cool in the refrigerator for several hours.
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    Coat all the cakes with sour cream, making sure to grease the sides. Stack them on top of each other and sprinkle with dough crumbs. Place the cake in the refrigerator for 8-10 hours until thoroughly soaked. Decorate the finished classic honey cake to your liking.

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Delicious honey cake with custard at home

Custard gives the classic honey cake a special taste, reminiscent of eclairs. Be prepared to cook the cream on the stove.

Ingredients:

• Eggs – 2 pcs.
• Honey – 2 tbsp. l.
• Sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Flour – 3-4 tbsp.
• Butter – 150 g.
• Soda – 1 tsp.

For cream:

• Eggs – 2 pcs.
• Milk – 500 ml.
• Sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Flour – 2 tbsp. l.
• Butter – 100 g.
• Vanilla sugar to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Mix butter, sugar and honey in a container that can be placed on fire. Melt everything over low heat until no sugar crystals remain. Cool the sweet mass.

Step 2. Beat the eggs with a fork or mixer.

Step 3. Sift the flour and mix with soda. Whether to extinguish soda with vinegar is up to you to decide. And if you use baking powder, it is better to add it at the end of kneading the dough.

Step 4. Gradually stir the flour into the mixture of butter, sugar and honey, and then pour the beaten eggs into the dough, mix well. The dough should be thick, but in no case hard. Be sure to achieve its elasticity by kneading with your hands.

Step 5. Form the dough into 9 balls, cover them with cling film and place in the refrigerator for a while.

Step 6. Prepare the custard. In a container, mix eggs, granulated sugar and vanilla sugar, flour.

Step 7. Place on the fire and, stirring, pour in the milk in a stream.Try to stir as often and rhythmically as possible so that flour lumps do not form. Gradually the cream will acquire a thick consistency, then remove it from the stove.

Step 8. Place the butter into the hot cream and stir until dissolved. Allow the cream to cool, covering it with cling film in contact.

Step 9. Bake the dough cakes, giving them a round shape. Each cake should be baked for 5-6 minutes in an oven at 200 degrees.

Step 10. While still hot, it is better to trim off the uneven edges, leaving the crumbs for further sprinkling. I cut the cakes to the diameter you need, I had a plate with a diameter of 22 centimeters.

Step 11. When the cakes and cream have cooled, soak each cake with cream and fold them into a pyramid.

Step 12. Cover the cake on all sides with cream, sprinkle with crumbs from scraps of dough and let it soak in the refrigerator for several hours. It's good to leave the cake to soak overnight.

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Classic honey cake with sour cream

This recipe uses traditional sour cream, which can be made with either sugar or powdered sugar. You will need walnuts for decoration.

Ingredients:

• Eggs – 3 pcs.
• Sugar – 200 g.
• Butter – 100 g.
• Flour – 400-500 g.
• Honey – 3 tbsp. l.
• Soda – 1 tsp.
• Baking powder – 2 tsp.
• Salt – 1 pinch.

For cream:

• Fat sour cream – 1 l.
• Sugar – 230 g.

For decoration:

• Walnuts – 200 g.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Prepare the dough for the cakes in a water bath. To do this, boil water in a deep saucepan.

Step 2. In another container of suitable diameter, mix softened butter, honey and sugar, place on a saucepan with water and stir the mixture until the sugar grains dissolve.

Step 3.Add soda and salt and, stirring, bring the mixture to a lighter state and increase in volume. Remove the container from the stove.

Step 4. Beat the eggs in a separate bowl using a mixer, and then add them to the cooled mixture of honey, butter and sugar.

Step 5. Sift the flour and baking powder through a sieve and mix with the rest of the ingredients. It may not be thick enough, then add flour.

Step 6. Divide the dough into as many parts as you need cakes. From the specified amount of ingredients you will get about 5-7 cakes.

Step 7. Bake the cakes on parchment paper in an oven preheated to 180-200 degrees. Baking time – 5-7 minutes.

Step 8. After removing from the oven, the cakes need to be trimmed so that they are even.

Step 9. Mix sour cream with sugar or powdered sugar and beat with a mixer to the desired degree of thickness. You can add a little lemon juice for sourness.

Step 10. Distribute the cream over the cakes, be sure to coat the sides well.

Step 11. Grind the cake scraps into crumbs and sprinkle on all sides of the cake.

Step 12. Walnuts can be crushed or halved kernels can be used to decorate the honey cake. Place the cake in the refrigerator for soaking for 6-10 hours.

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A simple recipe for honey cake with condensed milk and butter

Butter cream with condensed milk goes well with honey cakes. Walnuts complement this union well. The cake turns out sweeter and denser than with sour cream.

Ingredients:

• Eggs – 2 pcs.
• Honey – 2 tbsp. l.
• Flour – 350-500 g.
• Soda – 1 tsp.
• Sugar – 200 g.
• Butter – 150 g.

For cream:

• Butter – 300 g.
• Condensed milk – 1 can.
• Walnuts – 150 g.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Place a container with honey, sugar and butter in a water bath or just on the stove.Do not let it boil, but heat until everything is dissolved.

Step 2. Add soda to the mixture and, stirring quickly, remove from the stove.

Step 3. Beat the eggs into the cooled butter with honey and sugar and mix.

Step 4. Add flour in portions, sifting it through a sieve.

Step 5. Knead a homogeneous thick dough. Don't rush to add flour if the dough seems runny. It should stand in the refrigerator for 30-60 minutes, after which its consistency will change slightly.

Step 6. Then sprinkle the work surface with flour and lay out the dough.

Step 7. Now you need to objectively evaluate its elasticity and thickness. If it sticks to your hands, add flour. Get a pliable dough and divide it into parts (at least 5)

Step 8. Roll out each part thinly with a rolling pin and give it the desired shape - square, circle, heart, etc.

Step 9. Heat the oven to a temperature of 200 degrees and bake the cakes one by one - each for 5-6 minutes.

Step 10. While the cakes are cooling, prepare the cream. To do this, beat the butter and condensed milk in a blender.

Step 11. Divide the nuts into two parts - one of them will go into the cream, the other will be used for sprinkling and decoration.

Step 12. Grease the cakes with cream and sprinkle some of them with crushed nuts.

Step 13. Mix the crumbs obtained from the dough scraps with crushed nuts and sprinkle the cake with the mixture. Decorate the top of the dessert with the remaining nuts.

Step 14. Leave the honey cake to soak in the refrigerator for several hours.

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Classic honey cake with boiled condensed milk

According to this recipe, the honey cake turns out to be very sweet, with a sticky, pleasant cream. To level out excess sweetness in the cream, you can use fresh berries with sourness.

Ingredients:

• Flour – 400-500 g.
• Honey – 2-3 tbsp. l.
• Butter – 100-120 g.
• Eggs – 3 pcs.
• Baking soda/baking powder – 1 tsp/2 tsp.
• Sugar – 1 tbsp.

For cream:

• Boiled condensed milk – 1 can.
• Butter – 200 g.
• Fresh berries (cherries, raspberries, currants) – 150 g.
• Fresh milk - for soaking.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Melt butter with sugar and honey in a container. This can be done on the stove, in the microwave, or in a water bath.

Step 2. Add baking soda to the hot mixture (baking powder is used at another stage of preparation) and mix well.

Step 3. Cool the mixture and add eggs one at a time, kneading each one.

Step 4. Pour flour into the prepared mixture of honey, butter, sugar and eggs. If you use baking powder rather than soda, it must be added to the total mass along with the flour. The dough will come out immediately, just like for rolling out.

Step 5. Divide the dough into equal parts and roll out into thin layers in the desired shape - no thicker than 0.5 cm.

Step 6. Prick the cakes with a fork or toothpick in several places to prevent them from puffing up during baking. It’s better to prepare all the layers at once, because they bake very quickly - literally in 5 minutes. The oven temperature should be about 200 degrees.

Step 7. Mix boiled condensed milk and butter and beat them with a blender.

Step 8. Grease the cakes first with milk and then with cream. Place fresh berries on every second cake after cream. Coat the cake with cream on all sides.

Step 9. Sprinkle the honey cake with crumbs. If there is none left from baking the cakes, you can crumble cookies or gingerbread. To soak, place the cake in the refrigerator overnight or for several hours.

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Step-by-step recipe for making honey cake in a frying pan

Since the cake layers in the honey cake are very thin, they can be baked directly in a frying pan, like pancakes.The cake will turn out just as delicious, and you won’t have to bother with baking sheets and the oven.

Ingredients:

• Eggs – 2 pcs.
• Butter – 100 g.
• Flour – 0.5 kg.
• Sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Honey – 3-4 tbsp. l.
• Soda – 1 tsp.
• Sour cream – 2 tbsp. l.

For cream:

• Sour cream – 600 g.
• Powdered sugar – 300-400 g.
• Vanillin – 10 g.
• Berries, nuts or chocolate for decoration.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Melt butter and honey on the stove or in the microwave.

Step 2. Beat the eggs and sugar into a fluffy foam, and then add 2 tablespoons of sour cream to them and mix.

Ball 3. Stir baking soda into the mixture of butter and honey. A noticeable reaction will occur, which is expressed in the lightening of the mass and an increase in its volume.

Step 4. Then combine the contents of the two containers.

Step 5. Add flour, kneading the dough first with a spoon and then with your hands. It should be pliable and roll out well.

Step 6. Form 5-6 balls of the same size from the dough and roll them into a circle along the diameter of the frying pan in which the cakes will be prepared.

Step 7. Prick one side of the circle with a fork.

Step 8. Heat the frying pan well. It is important that it is not damaged inside, because the cakes need to be fried without oil, and they should easily come off the surface.

Step 9. Fry on each side of the cake for 1.5 minutes over medium heat.

Step 10. Mix sour cream with powdered sugar and vanilla and beat with a mixer. You can mix sour cream with condensed milk.

Step 11. When the pancake cakes have cooled, generously coat them with cream and stack them.

Step 12. Trim the edges of the cake, coat the sides with cream. You can sprinkle the cake on all sides with crumbs from the leftover cake layers.

Step 13. Decorate the honey cake with melted chocolate, nuts or berries. After a few hours, you can serve.

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A simple recipe for honey cake in a water bath

The dough in a water bath turns out to be very elastic and bakes evenly, without lumps or cracks. It is important not to overheat it, and also not to dry out the cakes.

Ingredients:

• Eggs – 2 pcs.
• Honey – 3 tbsp. l.
• Flour – 400 g.
• Butter – 100 g.
• Sugar – 150 g.
• Soda – 1 tsp.

For cream:

• Condensed milk – 200 g.
• Sour cream – 400 g.
• Powdered sugar – 150 g.
• Vanillin – 0.5 tsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Prepare dishes for constructing a water bath. Take a pan for heating water and a container with the same diameter, but not deep. Place a pan of water on the stove.

Step 2. In a second container, mix eggs, honey, sugar and soda, beat everything with a fork.

Step 3. Then add soft butter and place the bowl in an open pan of water.

Step 4. Turn on the stove, bring the water in the pan to a boil, and stir the mass in the upper vessel without letting it boil. It will increase in volume and become covered with foam. In this state, the mass should be kept in a water bath for several minutes and then removed.

Step 5. Pour flour into the cooled mixture, knead the dough and put it in a bag or under film, and then place it in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

Step 6. Divide the dough that has been standing in the refrigerator into 6-8 parts, roll out a thin cake from each.

Step 7. Bake the cakes in the oven without drying them out. Remember that thin dough for honey cake is prepared quickly; one cake is baked for only 4-5 minutes at a fairly high temperature - about 200 degrees.

Step 8. Prepare the cream from sour cream, condensed milk and powdered sugar, as well as vanillin. All components just need to be whipped with a mixer. It is permissible to use a cream thickener if the cream stubbornly does not become thick.

Step 9. Cover the cakes with cream.Let it soak in a little and fold the honey circles one by one.

Step 10. Cover the surface with the creamy mixture as well. Do you choose the topping according to your taste? It could be crumbs from scraps of baked dough, or coconut flakes, or just powdered sugar.

Step 11. Place the cake in the refrigerator overnight and then decorate it to your liking.

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Classic honey cake prepared in a slow cooker

Cooking honey cake in a slow cooker will save you the hassle of rolling out the dough. Preparing the cake is much easier than in the oven or on the stove, and the dessert turns out tender and airy.

Ingredients:

• Flour – 1.5 tbsp.
• Eggs – 3 pcs.
• Sugar – 0.5 tbsp.
• Honey – 3 tbsp. l.
• Baking powder – 1 tsp.

For cream:

• High fat sour cream – 2 tbsp.
• Powdered sugar – 200 g.
• Vanillin – 0.5 tsp.
• Lemon juice – 0.5 tsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Beat eggs and sugar into a homogeneous fluffy mass.

Step 2. Pour honey into eggs with sugar and beat everything together. If the honey is too thick or has crystallized, you must first melt it in a water bath or in the microwave, but do not let it boil. Pour the melted honey into the egg mixture in a thin stream and whisk immediately.

Step 3. Mix flour with baking powder and pour into the egg-honey mixture, stirring until smooth. The dough turns out similar to that for pancakes.

Step 4. Grease the multicooker bowl with oil, turn on the “Baking” mode, and set the temperature to 150 degrees.

Step 5. Pour the dough into the bowl, close the lid and bake for 40-50 minutes. Even if you are very curious about what is happening with the dough, do not open the lid under any circumstances, otherwise your lush honey cake will fail, it risks falling off.

Step 6. When the time is up, remove the baked sponge cake from the slow cooker and cool.

Step 7For the cream, beat sour cream with powdered sugar. Add vanillin and lemon juice. For thickness, you can use a cream thickener.

Step 8. Divide the cooled honey sponge cake into 3-4 cake layers, cutting with a sharp knife or a special tool for cutting cake layers. You can cut the bottom cake very thin and use it to sprinkle the cake with crumbs.

Step 9. Layer the cakes with cream, coat it liberally on the sides, sprinkle with crumbs on all sides. Decorate as you wish. This cake gets soaked very quickly, so you can try it almost immediately after cooking, but it’s better to let it sit for at least an hour.

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Spanish chocolate honey cake

This cake looks very elegant and festive, so it is suitable for a loud celebration. There is a chocolate taste in both the cakes and the decor. It is recommended to decorate the top of the cake with fresh or canned berries.

Ingredients:

• Flour – 400 g.
• Cocoa – 2 tbsp. l.
• Honey – 3 tbsp. l.
• Eggs – 2 pcs.
• Butter – 100 g.
• Soda – 1 tsp.
• Sugar – 150 g.

For cream:

• Milk – 400 g.
• Sugar – 200 g.
• Starch – 20 g.
• Eggs – 1 pc.
• Butter – 200 g.
• Vanillin – 0.5 tsp.

For the glaze:

• Cocoa – 1 tbsp. l.
• Sugar – 3 tbsp. l.
• Milk – 1 tbsp. l.
• Oil – 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking process:

Step 1. To prepare the dough base, you need to use a water bath. On it you need to warm up the mixture of butter, sugar, honey and eggs. While mixing all these products, keep them in the bathhouse for about 7 minutes after the water boils in the lower container. Then add soda, reduce heat and hold for another 3-4 minutes. Cool the mass.

Step 2. Mix flour with cocoa and add to the cooled mixture.

Step 3. Knead the dough to a texture suitable for rolling, that is, it should be pliable and moderately thick.

Step 4.Make 6-8 balls of the same size from the dough and, covering them with film or placing them in plastic, put them in the refrigerator. This way the dough will reach the desired state.

Step 5. Roll the balls into flat cakes and bake in the oven at 200 degrees. The time the flatbreads are in the oven is 4-5 minutes.

Step 6. Prepare the custard. First, heat sugar, egg, and starch in a container in a water bath or on the stove.

Step 7. Then pour milk into the mixture, kneading the mass. It should thicken noticeably.

Step 8. Remove the cream from the heat, put the butter in it, and then cool the mixture a little and beat it with a mixer.

Step 9. Layer the baked and cooled cakes with cream.

Step 10. Cook the glaze: mix sugar, cocoa and milk in a container and put on fire. When the mass is well heated, knead it thoroughly, but do not boil. Remove the glaze from the heat, add butter and stir. Cool and cover the honey cake with chocolate mixture. You can put fresh or canned berries on top.

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A simple and delicious honey cake without rolling out the cakes

In this recipe, the dough for the honey cake is of a liquid consistency and is baked in a mold rather than rolled out. This significantly saves the housewife’s time, and the taste of the dessert does not suffer at all from the ease of preparation.

Ingredients:

• Fresh liquid honey – 3 tbsp. l.
• Sugar – about 200 g.
• Butter – 150 g.
• Milk – 50 ml.
• Soda – 0.5 tsp.
• Chicken egg – 2 pcs.
• Flour – 250 g.

For cream:

• Cream with fat content 30-35% - 300 g.
• Powdered sugar – 150 g.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Prepare the dough in the traditional way: beat 2 eggs with sugar using a mixer and set aside.

Step 2. Mix flour with soda.

Step 3. Pour melted butter, honey and milk into it, mix, and then add eggs and sugar.The result will be a fairly liquid dough that needs to be kneaded very well with a spoon.

Step 4. Line the pan with parchment or grease it with butter and sprinkle the bottom and sides with flour.

Step 5. Pour the dough into it, shake it lightly and put it in the oven. The cake base is baked for about 40-50 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. There is no need to open the oven during baking; only if the top starts to burn towards the end of baking, you can cover it with foil.

Step 6. Cool the baked “pie” and divide it into layers – 3 or 4 – as you wish. If the top is uneven, you can crumble it. Or you can do the same with the bottom, separating a thin layer and shredding it.

Step 7. Combine the cream, always cold, with powdered sugar and beat into cream.

Step 8. Coat the honey cake cakes with cream from the heart, pour generously on top and sides.

Step 9. If desired, you can add any filling to the cream: berries, chocolate pieces, nuts, etc. Sprinkle the cake with crumbs and keep in the refrigerator for a while.

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