Honey cake is one of our childhood’s favorite treats. The most tender crusts that literally melt in your mouth when you eat them, soaked in a delicious, light cream, have rightfully won the hearts of millions of fans of sweets.
Today we will talk about ten of the simplest and most delicious recipes for the Honey cake, but first recall the very first, classic version of the preparation.
For its cakes you will need:
- Two chicken eggs
- Two tablespoons of honey
- 250 grams of granulated sugar
- A pound of flour
- 50 grams of butter
- Teaspoon of baking soda
For a delicious cream, take:
- Half a liter of milk
- Two chicken eggs
- 50 grams of flour
- 200 grams of sugar
- 100 grams of butter
- 10 grams of vanilla sugar.
So, we begin to cook. First make the cakes. Mix eggs, sugar, melted honey and butter in one bowl. We put our bowl on a small fire, stirring to completely dissolve the sugar.
After that, when the mass is heated, add soda, which will lead to the appearance of foam and an increase in mass. Vigorously stirring, keep the bowl on the fire for another half a minute. After this time, you need to remove the bowl from the heat and add flour to the mass, stirring everything until it cools and thickens.
Divide the resulting dough by the number of future cakes, roll the pieces into balls, sprinkle with flour and put in the refrigerator. Now that the future cakes are almost ready, you need to prepare the cream. To do this, mix flour, sugar, eggs and vanilla sugar.
Add milk, while stirring the mass. We put on the fire, do not forget to interfere. As soon as the cream thickens and begins to boil, it must be removed from the stove.
Rolled cakes must be baked at a temperature of 180 degrees for four minutes, then grease them with cream. And the crumbs left over from the cakes can be ground together with chocolate and sprinkled on top of the cake. Enjoy your meal.
10. With thin cakes
Usually make 5-6 cakes, but you can create cake with very thin crusts. So it turns out more crumbly and soft. Be sure to grease each cake with cream and let the cake soak for several hours (preferably all night).
Roll the cakes thin and bake for 3-4 minutes. If desired, you can make a cake of 10 cakes, but do not overdo it, it will fall apart too high and it will not be convenient to eat it.
9. With boiled condensed milk
Boiled condensed milk ready-made cream for the cake, but if you add butter to it, it will become more tender. Melt the butter over low heat and add to the bowl of boiled condensed milk. Mix everything thoroughly and let the cream cool.
Lubricate the finished cakes with a thin layer. There should be an average of 5-7 pieces of cake so that the cake is high and saturated, rather than dry. This option is very fast to do, so you can delight your family members with the Medovik every week.
8. With prunes and nuts
Prunes and nuts excellent filling for the Honey cake. Prunes should be finely chopped and added to the cream. If you like to eat dried fruits as a whole, then you can lay out several layers on the cake on top of the cream, but then you need to make the cakes a little thicker.
Leave some cream not only on the cakes, but also on the side. Well, coat the cake in a circle and sprinkle it with chopped walnuts. Now you can leave for several hours for impregnation. You can also sprinkle the top of the cake with nuts and decorate the cake with halves of peeled walnut.
7. With chocolate
Many love it chocolate cake and it’s unlikely that the presence of chocolate can ruin at least some recipe. So feel free to melt milk dark chocolate in a water bath and add to the cakes. Cream can also make chocolate.
6. With cocoa
Cocoa used for a light chocolate flavor. It can be added both to the dough and to the cream. In cream, you can use grated or melted chocolate. If you add cocoa to the dough, you can make a dessert without a long rolling of cakes.
After you mix the eggs with sugar until lush foam, add honey, gently pour mixed with flour and baking powder of cocoa. Lubricate the large baking sheet and pour the mass onto it. Spread over the whole sheet and leave to bake. Then cut into four equal parts, brush with cream and leave to soak.
5. With oranges
From orange it is best to impregnate for cakes. The cake turns out to be just as tender, but with a touch of sour fruit.
After you send the cakes to the oven, you need to do impregnation. To do this, take one large orange and squeeze the juice from it. Pour it into a small saucepan, put on a slow fire and add sugar. Stir until sugar dissolves.
With hot syrup, you need to grease all the cakes and let them brew a little. In the meantime, make a cream. Cream of condensed milk, butter and cream is perfect.
Collect the cake and decorate it with slices of orange. Your masterpiece is ready, it remains to wait until it is saturated and invite guests to tea.
4. With custard
The cake according to this recipe is incredibly tender and airy. For the cream, first boil the milk and in a separate container, mix the eggs, sugar, vanilla and flour.
Add some milk and stir well. Then, stirring constantly, pour in the remaining milk. Thus, you need to cook the cream until it thickens. Make sure that there are no lumps and the cream is smooth.
Lubricate cooled cakes custard and do not forget to leave at the very top. Sprinkle the sides and top with crumbs from the cakes and leave to soak overnight. Your tender cake is ready. Make tea and invite guests.
3. With cream and sour cream
Making the cake even tastier will help creamy cream. For its preparation, we need cream, with a fat content of at least 30%, sour cream, vanillin, powdered sugar.
First you need to beat the sour cream so that it becomes magnificent. After this, whip the cream. This is most conveniently done using a kitchen mixer. After the resulting mass thickens, add vanillin and powder. Mix the cream with sour cream.
There is an option when some cooks add rum to a cream and sour cream, which gives the cake a special pleasant taste. But it is only at will and taste. Next, we carry out the standard procedure, as for the preparation of an ordinary honey cake.
2. With sour cream
To diversify the delicacy, you can cook sour cream instead of the usual. For this, the choice of sour cream is very important, it is best to buy with 30% fat content. Of the remaining ingredients, only vanilla and regular sugar will be needed.
Mix sour cream and sugar in a bowl until sugar is completely dissolved. An alternative cream for the cake is ready, then we proceed according to the usual scheme. Remember that the cake needs to be soaked and it is desirable that this process takes an entire night, but if you do not want to wait at all, then a couple of hours is quite enough.
1. Without rolling cakes
And without that, a fairly simple recipe can be made even easier if you do cake without rolling cake. To do this, when the dough has not yet cooled, it is necessary to apply it on a greased baking sheet, aligning the edges with a spatula. The cakes obtained in this way must be baked for six minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
Next, grease with a classic cream, or any of the above to choose from. Such a dessert will definitely deserve a place on the table, and you - recognition of your culinary talents.