When the holidays are approaching or there is simply inspiration to treat your loved ones and relatives, or you are crazy in love with the oven, then you should try to cook this unusual dessert according to an old recipe.
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Honey cake - a native of the past of Russia
In our great and powerful country, as in many other states, there are traditions, customs and recipes of national dishes. Of course, a picture of a grandmother bustling at the stove for cooking pancakes immediately pops up in my head, or the whole family imagines talking in a cozy kitchen, fascinated by modeling dumplings. But not many people know that the honey cake recipe is also considered a truly Russian idea of making this original dessert.
Yes, not every one of us loves honey and everything connected with it, but the trick of this homemade delicacy lies in the fact that it is almost impossible to guess the presence of honey in the dessert.
The vital product of black and yellow striped insects not only gives the dessert a light velvety aftertaste, but also benefits.
Old recipe
Preparing a honey cake according to an old recipe is not difficult. To do this, you need the following ingredients:
- flour - 2.5-3 cups;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- granulated sugar - 1 cup;
- homemade honey - 1 - 2 tablespoons, depending on how rich you want to get a taste of the cake;
- butter - 100 grams;
- soda, quicklime vinegar - 1 teaspoon;
- nuts - optionally for decoration, you can also decorate with crumbs from the baked leftover dough.
For cream:
- sour cream -500-600 grams;
- sugar - 1 cup;
- cream - 200 ml
Step-by-step method of preparation:
The most important condition in the preparation of a delicious dessert is the initial correct combination of ingredients.
- Break eggs into a deep bowl or wide cup and add a pinch of salt, you can beat with a fork if you suddenly do not have a mixer, but it is better to do this in the classical way using an electric appliance.
- Sift the flour into a separate plate so that it is saturated with oxygen and makes the dough more airy.
- Take a pot, it is better unemalinated, put the oil and put on a slow fire. When the butter has almost melted, gradually pour one glass of sugar. The mixture should turn into a homogeneous liquid mass, then add soda, quicklime with vinegar.
- Add honey. In fact, you can put honey of absolutely any sort or the one that you have on hand, this will not affect the excellent taste of a gentle dessert.
- Almost simultaneously with the addition of honey to the mass, introduce beaten eggs, while constantly stirring the resulting mixture so that the eggs do not curl.
- Without removing from the heat, add the sifted flour and leave it on the stove for another 2 minutes, not forgetting to continue to stir the dough in order to avoid its burning.
- Remove the dough from the pan and knead on the cooker. Flour may require a little more than indicated in the norm-products, but in the end the dough should be such that it can be easily cut into portioned parts, from which cakes will subsequently roll out.
- Cut the finished dough into equal parts and form lumps. Put them in a pan.
- In order for future cakes to easily be rolled out, they need to be briefly threaded in a water bath.
- Roll the cake into a thin layer with a thickness of not more than 5 mm - so the assembled cake will be more tender and soaked.
- If you chose a square or round shape of the cake, then from the resulting layer it is necessary to cut the pipe size and shape. This is best done with the help of a tray or plate, on which the finished dessert will eventually be placed. Accordingly, all other cakes roll out and cut according to the same principle.
- Cover the baking dish with special paper and lay out the layer.
- Bake at 180 degrees for about 5-7 minutes. At first, the cake will be soft, so when you spread it from a baking sheet, do not break it, after a while the cake will harden and the cake can easily be assembled. Perform the same manipulations with all subsequent layers.
- Do not throw away the trimmings. They can also be baked, wait until they harden, put in a bag and mashed with a rolling pin on the kitchen board. Sprinkle the cake with the resulting crumbs when it is completely ready.
- Now you can make the cream. To do this, mix and thoroughly whip with a mixer or blender all the ingredients for the cream - first sour cream with sugar, and then add cream.
- It remains only to collect a honey cake and decorate it. Fold all the crumpets one on one, well smearing each of them. Do not spare the cream - the more cream, the juicier the dessert will be. But do not overdo it! Having missed the whole cake and its sides, sprinkle the honey cake on all sides with ready-made crumbs from the baked scraps of dough and send them in the refrigerator for several hours or all night. Alternatively, you can make the topping of chocolate chips or chopped nuts.
