When the holidays are approaching, or there is simply inspiration to pamper your loved ones and relatives, or you are madly in love with baking, then you should try to cook this extraordinary dessert according to an old recipe.
Medovik - originally from the past of Russia
Our great and mighty country, like many other states, has its own traditions, customs and recipes for 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 seems to be talking in a cozy kitchen, carried away by sculpting 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 everyone of us loves honey and everything connected with it, but the whole trick of this homemade delicacy lies in the fact that it is almost impossible to guess about the presence of honey in the dessert.
The waste product of black and yellow striped insects not only gives the dessert a light velvety flavor, but also benefits.
Old recipe
Making a honey cake according to an old recipe is a snap. To do this, you need the following ingredients:
- flour - 2.5-3 cups;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- granulated sugar - 1 glass;
- homemade honey - 1 - 2 tablespoons, depending on how rich you want to get the flavor of the cake;
- butter - 100 grams;
- soda, quicklime vinegar - 1 teaspoon;
- nuts - if desired for decoration, you can also decorate with crumbs from the baked dough remnants
For the cream:
- sour cream -500-600 grams;
- sugar - 1 glass;
- cream - 200 ml
Step-by-step cooking method:
The most important condition in preparing a delicious dessert is the initial correct combination of ingredients.
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Break eggs into a deep bowl or a wide cup and add one pinch of salt, you can beat with a fork, if suddenly you do not have a mixer, but it is better to do this in the classical way using an electric appliance.
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Sift the flour into a separate plate so that it is saturated with oxygen and makes the dough more airy.
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Take a saucepan, preferably unenamelled, put the butter and put on low heat. When the butter is almost melted, gradually add one glass of sugar. The mixture should turn into a homogeneous liquid mass, and then add soda, quicklime vinegar.
Image - Add honey. In fact, you can put honey of absolutely any kind or the one that you have at hand, this will not affect the excellent taste of the delicate dessert.
- Almost simultaneously with the addition of honey, add beaten eggs to the mass, while constantly stirring the resulting mixture so that the eggs do not curl.
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Without removing from the heat, add the sifted flour and leave on the stove for another 2 minutes, remembering to stir the dough as before to prevent it from burning.
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Remove the dough from the pan and knead on a cooking board. You may need a little more flour than indicated in the norm of products, but in the end the dough should turn out to be such that it can be easily cut into portions, from which the cakes will subsequently roll out.
Image - Cut the finished dough into equal parts and form into lumps. Put them in a saucepan.
- In order for future cakes to be easily rolled out, they need to be milled for a short time in a water bath.
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Roll out the cake into a thin layer no more than 5 mm thick - this way the assembled cake will be more tender and soaked.
Image - If you chose a square or round cake shape, then from the resulting layer you need to cut the pipe size and shape. It is best to do this with the help of a tray or plate, on which the finished dessert will ultimately be placed. Accordingly, roll out and cut all the other cakes 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 lay it out from the baking sheet, do not break it, after a while the cake will harden and the cake can be easily assembled. Perform the same manipulations with all subsequent layers.
- Do not discard the cuttings. You can also bake them, wait until they harden, put them in a bag and crush them with a rolling pin on the kitchen board. Sprinkle the resulting crumb over the cake when it is completely ready.
- Now you can prepare the cream. To do this, mix and beat thoroughly with a mixer or blender all the ingredients for the cream - first sour cream with sugar, and then add the cream.
- All that remains is to collect the honey cake and decorate it. Fold all the donuts one by one, smearing each one well. Do not regret the cream - the more cream, the juicier the dessert will be. But don't overdo it! After smearing the whole cake and its sides, sprinkle the honey cake on all sides with prepared crumbs from baked dough scraps and refrigerate for several hours or overnight. Alternatively, sprinkle with chocolate chips or chopped nuts.
Calorie content of confectionery per 100 grams:
- proteins - 4, 9 g
- fats - 7, 8 g
- carbohydrates - 46, 1 g
- calories - 276 kcal.
The old recipe assumes that sour cream is used to soak the cake, but the same unsurpassed taste can be obtained with custard. If you prefer custard, then you need to prepare it in advance. And while you are baking cake cakes, the cream will have time to cool down and all you have to do is beat it with butter and collect the honey cake.
