Homemade honey cake. Homemade honey cake with sour cream

  • 19.10.2019

Medovik is a cake loved by many since childhood. This relatively low calorie dessert with a delicate pleasant taste. However, not everyone knows how to cook a honey cake with their own hands. There are several recipes for the cake, its taste can be varied at will. Cooking honey cake is a rather laborious process. You need to bake the cakes, prepare the cream, assemble the cake. It takes a lot of time to impregnate the cake with cream. But it's worth it, because the result is a great dessert for holiday table flavored with caramel and honey.

To make the cake tender and melt in your mouth, it is necessary 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 the proportions and know some culinary rules:

  1. To bake a cake, you need to take liquid honey. If the honey has already been sugared, it must be melted in a water bath. With a liquid product, it will be easier to knead the dough.
  2. For a honey cake, light honey is suitable. Dark honey has a very pronounced taste. And also you should not take buckwheat honey, otherwise the cake will turn out to be too tart.
  3. Honey cake will turn out soft and tender if the dough is steamed. To do this, boil water in a saucepan. And inside the dishes put the second pan so that it does not touch the bottom of the water.
  4. 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 cloying.
  5. Only warm dough is rolled into the cakes.
  6. 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.
  7. For cream, you should take fat sour cream. And instead of granulated sugar, it is better to use powdered sugar. Before making the cream, sour cream needs to be cooled, so it is easier to mix with powdered sugar.
  8. You can add condensed milk or cocoa to sour cream for cream. And you can also replace sour cream with these products.
  9. The taste of the cake can be varied by adding prunes to the cream or walnuts.
  10. Before assembling the cake, you need to put a layer of cream on the dish and spread the first cake on it. Assembling a cake should always start with the cream, not the cakes.

Honey cake recipes

Cooking a honey cake consists of several stages:

Honey cake is better to cook 1 day before use, since the impregnation of the cake takes about 12 hours. It is not recommended to soak the honey cake for 2-3 days.

Classic recipe: honey cake "Tenderness"

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. In the cake classic recipe 2 types of cream are used: sour cream and condensed milk. To prepare cream from sour cream, you will need 500 g of sour cream (fat content of at least 20%), 300 g of sugar. For condensed milk cream - 1 can of condensed milk (360 g), 200 g butter.

Honey cake with nuts and prunes without rolling cakes

To prepare this variation of honey cake 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 (fat content 25%), 300 ml cream (fat content 35%), 5 tablespoons of powdered sugar, 300 g pitted prunes and 200 g walnuts.

Honey cake "Ryzhik" with custard without a water bath

Medovik can be prepared without steaming the dough. For a cake according to this recipe, you will need 1 cup of sugar, 2 - 3 eggs, 2 tablespoons of honey, 2 teaspoons of soda, 3 cups 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.

Already one naming of the cake honey cake evokes pleasant memories of a pleasantly spent evening over a cup of tea or a fun birthday in childhood.

If you now frowned and said “Nothing like that! I don't like Honey Cake!" then you might just be unlucky and try the wrong Honey Cake!

To know the taste of a real Medovik, you need to forget the way to the long-term storage cake department. These cakes, oiled with margarine, have nothing in common with real Medovik.

real cake honey cake- a delicious, delicate, fragrant and not at all sugary dessert, which even those who do not like honey will enjoy with pleasure.

About honey in Medovik, by the way, there is interesting story about Empress Elizabeth Alekseevna. The wife of Alexander I did not like honey very much, and all the cooks knew about this fad of hers and tried to prepare treats without using this product.

But one day a new confectioner worked in the kitchen, who did not know this fact. Since he had just started work and wanted to impress the imperial family with his talents, he decided to make a special cake.

The recipe was new, almost never used, so the confectioner expected to surprise and please the emperor and his wife. And he succeeded! The cake turned out beyond praise: honey cakes, along with custard, literally melted in your mouth. The Empress appreciated the dish and asked about its composition. The confectioner had already been told about Elizaveta Alekseevna's dislike for honey, and he, terribly embarrassed, said that the basis of the cake was honey. But the empress did not get angry, but, on the contrary, laughed. And she ordered to give a generous reward to the inventive confectioner. Since then, honey cake has become a favorite dessert of the Empress and has always been present at festive feasts.

Vladimir Dal defines a cake as a puff round sweet cake. Such a mean wording causes some protest, because the cake is, first of all, a holiday. A true hymn to the art of the pastry chef New Year, birthday, and just like that, in honor of Have a good mood and have a great day.

Cake Medovik is considered the most popular cake in Russia, especially often it is prepared for children's parties. And now Medovik cake is on the menu of many expensive restaurants and can always be found on store shelves in the “Cakes” section. Cake Medovik is called differently. Sometimes you can find the names "Bee", "Honey", "Miracle" or simply "Honey cake with sour cream".
But of course the tastiest honey cake the one you made yourself. Each housewife has her own unique and proven recipe for Medovik, but perhaps they will be inspired by our cooking options for this dessert.

Honey- a dream that easily comes true with the help of simple manipulations and a few simple ingredients. The main character here is honey - a healthy, tasty and healing product. It needs to be added to the dough quite a bit - just a couple of tablespoons, and the result is amazing.

Praises to honey can be sung for a very long time. It is used in the preservation of vegetables, stewed and baked with it, poultry, prepared fish sauces. And baking with a unique bee product has an amazing aroma, beautiful color and a characteristic caramel flavor. There are a lot of recipes for cookies, gingerbread and pies with the addition of honey, but nothing compares to the real one. honey cake that just melts in your mouth. Honey dough is somewhere between shortbread and biscuit types, since it is the addition of honey that distinguishes the dough from both. Special decoration is not required, the main advantage is the exquisite taste and ease of preparation.

What limitations at the honeycomb? Perhaps there is one. This is the speed at which this honey cake will disappear from the table! Be sure that your loved ones will eat the prepared honey cake and you will not have to worry about its shelf life!

Food preparation

Honey cake is simple, the whole secret lies in the correct baking of cakes, and there are not so many ingredients for it. The main ingredient is, of course, honey. It is better to take it in liquid form, so that the dough is easier to form. Thick candied honey can be melted first in a water bath.

One of the most advantageous types of cream for our cake can be sour cream. From it, the product acquires a pleasant, fresh sourness, the cakes are well saturated and become simply airy. So that as a result we are not disappointed, it is better to take fat sour cream, and replace sugar with powdered sugar. Sour cream must be cooled in the refrigerator, and quickly beat with fine sugar or powdered sugar. After that, you can add jam, mashed fruit or other ingredients according to recipes. The principle of preparation is always the same, the difference in recipes can be determined by adding just one ingredient to the cream, for example, prunes, coconut chips or jam.

To prepare desserts you will need:

Blenders & Mixers

kitchen scales

Decor for baking

Brand "S. Pudov" - seasonings, spices, food additives, flour and decor for baking

classic honey cake

Ingredients:

For test:
2 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 3 cups flour, 3 tablespoons honey, 2 tsp. soda (no slide at all, or one with a small slide), 1 tablespoon of vinegar (9%).
For cream:
1 egg, 1 tbsp. sugar, 1 tbsp. sour cream (from 20%, preferably 30%), 200 grams of softened butter
For decoration:
A handful of walnuts, iced chocolate.

Cooking:

In a water bath with a whisk, beat 2 eggs with 1 cup of sugar. Cook for about 3-5 minutes until the mixture is light and fluffy. Add honey, stirring constantly, beat again.
Add 1 cup of flour, mix well without removing from the bath. Add soda (do not extinguish!), Another glass of flour, and mix again. After that, add 1 tablespoon of vinegar, mix (the dough will immediately become more porous) and add the last glass of flour, stir well again and remove from the water bath.

We spread the dough on a table sprinkled with flour, let it cool slightly (should lie down for 2-3 minutes, do not cool completely). Then knead the dough with your hands until a homogeneous, slightly sticky mass.
Divide by 6 equal parts.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, roll each portion of the dough into a thin round cake. When rolling out the dough, roll it a little in flour so that it does not stick to the table. Before baking, prick the cake with a fork in several places.

Bake the cakes for about 5 minutes each until even dark golden brown.
We prepare the cream: in a water bath, beat 1 egg and a glass of sugar, add a glass of sour cream and beat well (you can use a mixer). Remove from the bath, let the mixture cool slightly, add all the softened butter at once and beat for 5-10 minutes until relatively thick. If the sour cream is completely liquid, then you can add a bag of cream thickener.
Collecting the cake! We generously grease all the cakes with cream, letting it drain a little around the edges, we also coat the top cake well with cream.

We prepare the crumbs for decoration: in a blender, chop the trimmings and walnuts remaining from the cakes, sprinkle the cake liberally on all sides with the resulting crumbs, coat the sides.
Sprinkle with grated frozen chocolate on top and put in the refrigerator to soak (at least 3 hours). Before serving, you can also sprinkle with grated chocolate.

Honey cake with condensed milk

For test: 3 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 2 tbsp. spoons of honey, 1 teaspoon of soda, 1.5 cups of flour.

For cream: 200-300 grams of butter, 1 can of condensed milk, cocoa (optional).

Cooking:
Grind eggs with sugar with a wooden spoon until white or beat with a mixer. Add honey, mix. Pour the sifted flour and mix thoroughly so that there are no lumps, then add soda, slaked with vinegar or lemon juice. Mix the dough until smooth.

Bake 4 cakes from the resulting dough. To do this, divide the dough in a bowl into 4 parts, transfer one part to a frying pan, greased with oil, evenly distribute the dough with a hand moistened cold water.

Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes at 200 degrees. Bake the remaining 3 cakes in the same way.

Prepare cream. Beat the softened butter into a fluffy white mass and, continuing to beat, add condensed milk and cocoa (if you want to use it) in small portions. Trim the cooled cakes with a knife and layer with cream. Cover the top and sides of the cake generously with cream.

Sprinkle honey cake with condensed milk with crumbs obtained by cutting the cakes or chopped nuts.

Medovik "Beehive"

I bring the ingredients for 1 kg of the finished cake. The cake in the photo is made on 6 kg.

Ingredients:

For honey cakes:
- wheat flour 250 gr
- eggs 1 pc
- sugar 100 gr
- butter 40 gr
- soda 1 teaspoon
– honey 60 gr

For cream:
– sour cream 400 gr
– cream 33% 150 gr
- 1 can of boiled condensed milk (180 gr)
- 2 tablespoons of honey

Cooking:

For test:
Combine eggs with sugar and beat lightly, then add honey, buttercream, soda, mix everything well and put it on the stove to warm up,on the water bath until dark golden brown. Then remove the mass fromplate, add flour and knead the dough. Ready dough divide into 7 piecesand leave to cool at room temperature.
Roll out the cooled dough with a thickness of 4-5 mm, shape it (if the circle is cut off according toplate desired diameter), put on baking paper and bake at
temperature 200C for 10 minutes (in general, the cakes are baked very quickly, alldepends on the oven and on how thinly the dough is rolled out, I baked in5 to 10 minutes on average)
Cool baked cakes at room temperature.
Grease the finished cakes with cream.

Cream:
Combine sour cream, cream 33%, boiled condensed milk and honey and beat with a mixer until smooth.

Sprinkle the sides of the cake with crumbs of honey cakes with chopped walnuts, I decorated the top of the cake with ganache bees

P.S.
BEES FROM GANACHE:(85 g chocolate + 1/3 cup cream + 2 tsp honey)
When the ganache has cooled to room temperature, squeeze out the head with a pastry bag,
then, without tearing off, continue the torso and take away the bag. Stripes with eyes - whitemelted chocolate too pastry bag or cornet andwings - almond plates and in the freezer. Of this amount, manyit turns out, I have a whole hive in the refrigerator lives

TO ACHIEVE THE EFFECT OF HONEYCOMBS, you need a bubble wrap that is used when transporting fragile items. You don’t need to lubricate the film with anything so that the honeycomb pattern is printed, you must add gelatin to the cream, otherwise the honeycombs will not work - everything will be smeared, we have already gone through this. I'm onI made the whole cake cream as written in the recipe above, and in part of the cream,with which she covered the top and sides of the cake, added pre-soaked in
cold cream, melted gelatin. The film must be attached to the cakeand somehow press bubbles into the cream, put in the refrigerator for 15-20 minutesso that the honeycombs “grab”, then the film can be carefully removed.1 pack of HAAS microcrystalline gelatin left - this is 11 g, but,I repeat, this is not for the whole cream in the cake, but only for that part of whichcovered the sides and top of the cake.

Chocolate honey cake

You will have to spend quite a lot of time on this cake, but itworth it - the honey cake is very tasty and beautiful. The finished cake should be giveninsist and soak.

Ingredients:

Dough:
3 art. cocoa spoons
4 tbsp. spoons of honey
1 teaspoon of soda
50 g butter
3 eggs
1 cup of sugar
3-3.5 to 4 cups of flour

Cream:
1 liter of milk
6 - 7 tablespoons of semolina
300 - 350 g butter
3/4 cup granulated sugar
Vanilla extract (I added 2 tablespoons)

Glaze:
100 g dark chocolate
7 - 8 tablespoons of sweet cream (I had 10%)

Cooking cakes:

Put all the ingredients for the dough, except flour, into
sufficiently capacious dishes and heat in a water bath for 20minutes, interfering frequently. You should get a very hot and fluffy mass.
Combine this mass with 1.5 cups of flour (it is better to do this in a bowl) andmix quickly. The remaining flour should be added very carefully,little by little, constantly stirring. When the mass thickens so much that it becomes
it is possible to knead it with your hands, transfer it to a floured countertopand knead the dough. The dough should be soft and elastic enoughtherefore, one should be especially careful with flour: it is better not to add flour andthen, last resort, add.

Divide the finished dough into 7-10 parts, roll out each partthinly and bake for 6 minutes at a temperature of 180 - 185 degreesCelsius.

Explanations for rolling and baking:

The dough should be rolled out while still warm, directly on thebaking paper, from which circles should first be cut outwith a diameter of 28 cm. Paper with a layer of dough rolled out on it must be laid on
hot baking sheet and place in the oven, starting immediatelyrolling out the next circle. After 6 minutes, when the first cake is already baked,you should quickly pull it off the baking sheet, substituting a wooden board,so that the cake does not break, and immediately put on a baking sheet the secondrolled out crust. We stack the finished cakes on top of each other, paper side up,then carefully remove this paper.

Cream preparation

Cook a thick cream from milk, sugar and semolina. cool down,stirring often enough to avoid lumps. Whip the butter andGradually add well-cooled cream, continuing to beat continuously.
Lubricate all the cakes with the finished cream, including the top one.

Melt chocolate and cream in a water bath and pour over our cake with the resulting icing.

Notes:

Be very careful with the flour in this recipe. If you add tothe dough is too much flour, then it will be difficult for you to roll it out;
- The dough sticks a little to your hands and to the rolling pin, so you need to constantly sprinkle it with flour.

Cake Medovik traditional

Very festive and unusually tasty cake.

Ingredients

Dough:
500 g flour
3 scoops of powdered sugar
4 full tablespoons of honey
125 g margarine
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 eggs

Filling and cream:
500 ml heavy cream (30 - 36%).
about 200 g cream cheese (cream cheese)
2.5 - 3 teaspoons of gelatin (dissolve in 4 - 5 tablespoons of water)
vanilla sugar
boiled condensed milk
100 g walnuts, finely chopped

Cooking:

Dough:
Mix and knead all ingredients together. V food processor itdone in about three minutes. The dough should be soft. Split itinto two equal parts and bake two cakes measuring 24 x 36 cm attemperature 180 degrees and for about 15 minutes (each cake).

If you have two identical shapes, you can try baking cakessimultaneously, in convection mode, at a temperature of 160 degreesCelsius.

Pay attention that the cakes do not blush too much, but remain light.

Filling:
Transfer the boiled condensed milk to a bowl and grind. Whip cream.Dissolve and set aside gelatin. Put 4 tbsp. tablespoons of whipped creambowl with condensed milk.

Add the cream cheese to the remaining cream and mix thoroughly. Vgelatin, add 2-3 tablespoons of creamy mass and beat well with a mixer forhigh speed, then add it all to the main cream cheesemass and mix thoroughly. Put the whole stuffing on the firstcake, flatten and cover with a second cake.

Cream:
Mix condensed milk and cream well and brush with this creamthe surface of the second cake. Sprinkle with chopped nuts and place inrefrigerator.

The cake should be well soaked and become soft.

Golden HONEY CAKE

Simple, but delicious! Honey cake is the most simple cake, because. it's easy to cook and hard to mess up. This recipe has never failed me, so I strongly recommend it to you. The cake always turns out delicious and fragrant!

Ingredients:

For test:
2 eggs -2 tablespoons of honey -130 g of butter - 1 cup of sugar - 1 teaspoon of soda - up to 3 cups of flour (you will understand in the process of kneading)
Cream:
1 can of condensed milk 100 g butter

Cooking process:

Let's cook first dough:
Take a dish that is convenient for you and break 2 eggs into it, add honey, all the sugar and unmelted butter ... then put in a water bath and stir constantly until the butter dissolves and the mass becomes homogeneous.
Remove. Now add, better hydrated with lemon, soda and a glass of flour. Continue stirring the dough until it has slightly increased in volume. Add more flour until the mass forms a "strong" but not "cool" dough.
It must be divided into 5-6 parts, roll out the cake from each part. Bake the cakes in the oven until golden brown.

Cream: Mix condensed milk with soft butter.

Lubricate each cake (of course, cooled down) with cream, after pricking them with a fork. This is necessary so that the cream soaks the cake better.

When the cake is already folded, evenly trim the edges of the cakes. Although you can pre-give the cakes an even shape, whether it be a circle or a square, this procedure must be done with the cakes that have not cooled down, as well as prick them for better impregnation.

Use the trimming to sprinkle the cake. To do this, you can put it in a plastic bag and “roll” on it with a rolling pin. Pruning can (as an option!) Mix with chopped nuts or candied fruit.

After 3 hours, the cake can be served on the table and .... brew tea according to the tea rules, as they are taught in the book “Harmony of the Tea Ceremony”. By the way, the set includes 2 tea boxes for storing tea as a gift!

Honey cake in a simple way

Mix 100 g of margarine with 150 g of sugar and heat until the margarine becomes liquid. then add 2 beaten eggs and 1.5 teaspoons of soda to the mixture (do not forget to extinguish it vinegar, better lemon) Add honey 2 tablespoons and flour 3.5 cups.
Put the resulting mixture in the cold for 2 hours, and then roll the sausage out of it and cut into 6 equal parts. They need to be rolled out on the skin and then baked in the oven, each separately.

Lubricate the cakes cream: 1 can of boiled condensed milk, whipped with a mixer with 300 g of butter.

Honey cake with cocoa fondant "Miracle"

In addition to the fact that this cake is delicious and tender, it is also huge - quite enough to meet and feed a large company. The original dough is cooked in a water bath, this makes the cake soft and fluffy, a real miracle.

Ingredients:
eggs (3 pcs), soda (2 tsp), honey (2 tablespoons), flour (3.5 cups), butter (60 g), sugar (a glass).
Cream:
egg, sugar (1 cup), milk, semolina (1 tbsp. L). Butter softened to room temperature (250 g), vanillin, half a glass of sour cream.
Fondant:
sugar, cocoa, sour cream (all 24 tablespoons each), butter (60 gr).

Cooking method

Let's cook first cream. Grind sugar and egg in a bowl, add flour and vanilla and mix. Gradually add milk to get a homogeneous mass. We put in a water bath until thickened, but do not boil, bring almost to a boil. Add the butter to the mixture cooled to room temperature and beat. At the end, add sour cream and mix.

Test preparation:
- Mix the butter, sugar and honey in a bowl and put it in a water bath until the sugar dissolves. Beat in the eggs and mix quickly.
- Put in a water bath for 4 minutes, add 2 teaspoons of soda. The mass should increase sharply in volume (about three times).
- We continue to keep it on fire and add flour (2 cups), stir. The dough should be thicker than pancakes. The dough should not be sticky or hard. If liquid, add more flour, about half a glass.
- Put the dough on the table on a layer of flour. We divide it into 7 identical parts, roll each part in flour and form thin cakes. Bake until golden brown.

Fondant: mix cocoa with sugar, add butter and bring to a boil.

Lubricate the cooled cakes with cream, pour glaze on top and send to the refrigerator to infuse. Pour frosting on top.

Honey cake with prunes - "Royal"

Prunes give any product a characteristic taste, it just goes well with honey. The dough has a fundamentally different consistency, therefore it is not baked in cakes, as in most cases, but completely, and then cut into cakes.

Ingredients:

Dough:
butter (100 g), flour (1 cup), 2 tbsp. spoons of honey, 1/2 cup, sugar, soda (1. teaspoon), 2 eggs

For cream:
sour cream (3500 gr), walnuts (100 gr), prunes (handful), half a glass of sugar.

Cooking method:

In a suitable bowl, melt the honey over low heat, stirring constantly until foam appears and a golden color. Remove from heat and dissolve chopped butter with sugar in this container, stir with butter and flour. The dough should turn out like a very thick sour cream. Bake in a mold over low heat, cut the cake in half and soak with cream. If you get a small volume, you can take a double portion and cut into 4 parts. We check the readiness of the cake with a match.

Cream: mix sour cream and sugar, put in the refrigerator. Grind and crush nuts, prunes. We divide the sour cream in half. Add nuts to one part of the cream, prunes to the other, put in the cold to soak. To give the cream a "zest" you can add a little rum or cognac.

Honey cake with condensed milk and apricot jam

Many people adore the taste of boiled condensed milk, and not only children. If you beat it with butter, you get a cream, which may not so deeply impregnate the cakes, but in itself is very tasty. And with apricot jam and nuts, it's so easy to overeat.

Ingredients:

For test:
honey (3 tablespoons), butter or margarine (60 grams), vodka (1 spoon), flour (2.5 cups), eggs (3 pcs), granulated sugar (1 cup).
For cream:
butter (300 grams), boiled condensed milk (2 cans), a spoonful of honey, nuts, apricot jam.

Cooking method:

In a water bath, melt margarine or butter and mix with eggs, add a pinch of salt, pour in milk and heat until completely dissolved. Add soda, and sifted flour in small portions. You can bake cakes thick and thin, until golden brown, with medium heat.

Cream:
Mix butter and condensed milk until smooth, add honey, some nuts. We collect the cake. We coat the cakes and stack one on top of the other. Spread cream on top, sprinkle with nuts and decorate with apricot jam.

MEDOVIK in a slow cooker

This cake will turn out even for those who never succeed. Lush and delicate biscuit with a delicious aroma of fragrant honey in combination with chocolate cream made from condensed milk - what else do you need for happiness?!

Ingredients:


350 g flour; a pinch of salt; 1 tsp baking powder; a pinch of cinnamon; 5 eggs; 140 g of sugar; 5 tbsp honey; butter for greasing the mold

Cream:
250 g butter at room temperature; 0.5 cans of boiled condensed milk; 1 can of condensed cocoa

Decoration:
200 ml cream 38% 2 tbsp. sugar 1 tsp cocoa powder

Cooking process:

1. For the cake, sift the flour into a bowl, add salt and baking powder, cinnamon.

2. Beat eggs with sugar until a fluffy light mass is obtained.

Add honey, beat.

Without ceasing to beat, add flour in several steps.

3. Lubricate the multicooker bowl with oil and transfer the dough into it.

Bake in the "Baking" mode for 1 hour 30 minutes. (Be guided by your multicooker model, it is likely that you will need a little less or a little more time).

4. For cream, beat softened butter, add boiled condensed milk.

Whisk. Add condensed cocoa, beat again.

5. Cut the chilled biscuit into 4-6 cakes.

Lubricate the cakes with cream, including the top cake and sides, gently smooth the surface.

Place the cake in the refrigerator for 15-20 minutes.
6. To decorate, whip the cream until stiff, gradually adding sugar.

7. Decorate the honey cake with whipped cream. Sprinkle cocoa powder on top. How to refrigerate.

If you want to make a honey cake, then the following tips may come in handy:

When choosing honey, keep in mind that the flavor of dark honey will be more noticeable in the cake and it will give a stronger flavor.

The lower the fat content of sour cream for the cream, the better the cake will soak. But in this case, less cream will remain between the cakes.

If you want a more juicy and fat cake, take sour cream with a high percentage of fat content and increase its proportions in the recipe.

If you use baking powder instead of soda, then you need to add it at the very end of the dough kneading. Just mix the baking powder together with the flour.

honey cake

Honey cake

100 g butter, 1 tbsp sugar, 2 eggs, 1 tsp. soda, 1 tbsp. honey, 3 tbsp flour
Melt the butter with sugar, let it boil and add in strict order: soda, honey and eggs. And then all the flour. Knead the dough over low heat and boil for 1-2 minutes, as if brewing it.
Then knead it on a mat, divide it into 10 pieces, roll out the cakes and bake in the oven (on average 4-5 minutes)

Cream: 600 g sour cream, 1 tbsp sugar, beat

Medovik from Alexander Seleznev

Today is a day off, but how can Saturday pass without delicious homemade cakes!

Medovik is a cake that was on the tables of our grandmothers, perhaps most often. There are many variations for its preparation.

We offer you the top three delicious recipes, according to the editors of the site.

Honey cake"

Ingredients:

  • eggs - 2 pcs.;
  • honey - 2 tbsp. l.;
  • baking soda - 1 tsp;
  • granulated sugar - 1 stack;
  • margarine - 125 g;
  • wheat flour - 3-4 glasses;
  • butter (for cream) - 300 g;
  • boiled condensed milk (for cream) - 2 ban.;
  • walnut (for decoration) - 200 g.

Cooking

Melt margarine in a water bath, then add sugar, honey and heat, stirring occasionally, until smooth. Then add soda and continue to stir until the mass increases in volume and whitens.

Now remove our container from the “bath” and let it cool. Add eggs, mix well. Add flour and knead into a soft, elastic dough.

Divide the dough into 8 equal parts . Roll each “ball” into a cake (preferably immediately on baking paper), then simply transfer the cake along with the paper to a baking sheet - it’s much easier than shifting the cakes themselves.

Bake them in the oven at 180 degrees 7-10 minutes each. Bake the rest of the dough (cuttings from cakes), cool and chop - for sprinkling.

Let's get to the cream : Beat the softened butter with a mixer until fluffy. Without stopping whisking, add boiled condensed milk in small portions to the butter and continue to beat until a fluffy homogeneous mass is obtained.

We put the cakes on top of each other, layering with cream. Top the cake with cream too. Sprinkle the sides of the cake with chopped scraps. Decorate as desired.

Angarsky cake (honey)

Ingredients:

  • butter (or margarine) - 150 g;
  • egg - 2 pcs;
  • sugar - 2 stacks;
  • soda - 1 tsp;
  • flour - 2 stacks;
  • sour cream (in cream) - 400 g;
  • honey - 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking

Put butter, sugar (1 cup) and honey in a saucepan. Heat over low heat, stirring, until boiling. As soon as it starts to boil, add soda. Stir vigorously for 10 seconds. When everything turns into foam, remove from heat.

Wait for the contents of the saucepan to cool, to speed up the process, you can put in a container of cold water. We get something that looks like caramel, smells great and appetizing. Whisk in the eggs one at a time and then add the flour.

We get a viscous dough, but thick enough. Spread half of the dough on a greased baking sheet. It is better to put baking paper or a non-stick mat. It's best to do this with wet hands.

Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees . The crust is thin so it bakes quickly. 10-12 minutes . Cut the finished cake in half (it turns out to be large, almost the entire sheet). We do the same with the second half of the test.

While the cakes are cooling, do sour cream (beat sour cream with sugar). We put the cakes one on top of the other, cut them so that they are even and the same. Crush the scraps and use for sprinkling.

Assemble the cake, smearing the cakes with cream, if you wish, decorate. It is better if the cake stands in the refrigerator for a couple of hours, it is well saturated with cream. By the way, if you add flour, you get a very tasty cookie :)

Honey cake "Beloved"

Ingredients:

  • margarine - 100 g;
  • egg - 3 pcs;
  • sugar - 1/2 cup;
  • honey - 1 stack;
  • salt - a pinch;
  • soda - 1 tsp;
  • flour - 2.5 cups;
  • lemon - 2 pcs;
  • condensed milk - 400 g;
  • sour cream (30% fat) - 500-600 g;
  • butter - 100 g.

In a saucepan put 2 eggs, 150 g of sugar, 120 g of honey (it is better to use buckwheat) and 85 g of good butter (not margarine and not spread!).

Place over medium heat and heat, stirring constantly, until the sugar has completely dissolved and the butter has melted.

Add 1 full tsp. soda.

Mix quickly. The mass will increase slightly in volume and brighten.

Remove from heat and add 350 g of sifted flour.

Mix well.

At this stage, the dough is quite sticky. But it shouldn't be liquid! Now the dough should be left on kitchen table for 10 minutes - "rest" and "ripen". If after this time the dough sticks strongly to the hands and the table, add a little flour, no more than 50 g, otherwise the dough will turn out to be too dense and it will be very difficult to roll out.

The finished dough must be divided into equal pieces (or simply pinched off). I get 12 cakes 18 cm in diameter. Also, you need to prepare sheets of parchment (baking paper) in advance - according to the number of future cakes.

Roll out and bake!

Before you start rolling, turn on the oven. Cakes for honey cakes need to be baked at 180 degrees. We take a piece of dough, knead it, put it on a sheet of parchment dusted with flour.

Roll out.

Very thin! Approximately 3 mm, almost to the gaps!

And so - all future cakes. We prick them with a fork in several places. You can put them on top of each other right on the parchment, they will not stick together and will calmly wait for their turn.

We bake one or more cakes, depending on how much your oven allows. Mine only bakes optimally on medium, so I usually bake one cake at a time. Down, under the baking sheet with the cake, I always put a container of water, otherwise the bottom burns. Cakes are baked very quickly, up to 5 minutes. Watch out!

We take out the cake and immediately cut it on a plate (square or rectangular shape if you want a matching honey cake). Save the cuts.

Warm, the cake is quite soft. Fluffy, light and soft! Look!

So we baked all the cakes!

Take them off the parchment. Usually I spread it on it after I cut it in shape to be sure that the baked cakes do not stick to each other :) Here they are, our golden honey beauties!

Collecting the cake!

For this cake, we need sour cream. You need to do it in advance, but how - I told and showed in detail in the post. A homemade honey cake can be assembled without a ring (if, for example, you rarely make cakes and took up the honey cake only because it does not need a special form), but it is more reliable - after all, in it. I recommend it from the bottom of my heart: nothing will leak anywhere, and the cake is guaranteed to turn out even and beautiful! So, we take a ring (a special confectionery ring, a transformer or from a detachable baking dish), lay the walls with a film (I have an acetate one, but you can use any, most importantly, a dense one, it will be difficult to evenly distribute the other along the wall).

We put the cake. We put cream on it. Then more cake. Etc.

Each housewife has her favorite, so-called "crown", Honey cake recipe at home. We offer you the best of them.

Classic honey cake recipe step by step

Ingredients

For test:
Honey - 5-6 tablespoons;
Butter - 150-180 grams;
Sugar - half a glass;
Chicken eggs - 4 pieces of medium size;
Flour - 3.5 cups.

For impregnation:
Cream - 200 milliliters.

For buttercream:
Sugar - 1 glass with a slide;
Milk - 2.5 cups;
Egg - 1 piece;
Flour - 2 tablespoons;
Butter - 200 grams.

Step-by-step recipe for a classic Honey cake at home

1. Melt honey, butter and sugar over low heat, preferably in a container with a thick bottom. We wait until the mass becomes liquid, and the sugar grains melt. Remove from fire and cool.

2. We begin to beat our mass with a mixer, introducing eggs, soda and flour into it. The dough should be very thick, but not tough, so that it can be rolled out.

3. Divide the honey dough into 6-8 parts.

4. On baking paper, generously sprinkled with flour, roll out thin cakes and transfer along with parchment to a baking sheet.

5. Bake each cake at 200 ° C for about 10 minutes. As soon as the cake is browned, take out and send the next one for baking.

6. Soak each cake with cream, and then grease with cream.

One cake can be left in order to break into crumbs and sprinkle on the cake, or the leftovers after cutting the cake into the shape you need are perfect for this.

7. For cream, heat a glass of milk, in which we dissolve a glass of sugar.

8. In another bowl, combine the remaining milk, egg and flour. There should be no lumps, so if you still come across - filter through a fine sieve.

9. We combine both mixtures and put on low heat, stirring constantly. The cream should become thick in about 12-15 minutes, after which we cool it and beat with the addition of butter.

Custard cake Honey at home

Let's take

Custard cakes:
Eggs - pieces;
Sugar - 1.5 cups;
Honey - 3 tablespoons;
Soda - 1 teaspoon;
Flour - 2.5-3 cups.

Caramel cream:
Boiled condensed milk - 1 can;
Butter - 100 grams;
Cottage cheese - 1 pack.

Recipe for making Medovik in a custard way

1. Mix eggs, sugar and honey and heat in a water bath.

2. Add soda.

3. When the mass increases in volume, pour in the flour without stopping mixing (beating if you used a mixer). The finished dough is homogeneous, smooth, it is not necessary to keep it on fire, as soon as it is kneaded, immediately remove it, let it cool and send it to the refrigerator for half an hour.

5. For the cream, beat the boiled potatoes, butter and cottage cheese.

6. We cut the cakes in the shape of a dish or plate, cover with cream.

7. Sprinkle the top with chopped scraps.