There are various recipes for honey sponge cake. Traditional honey cake consists of many thin cakes sandwiched with cream. However, you can bake a biscuit with only one crust.
Recipe for biscuit dough with honey for thin cakes
If you plan on thinning the honey cakes, knead the dough with butter. So, you will need 2 eggs, 400-450 grams of flour, 200 grams of sugar, 80 grams of butter, 100 grams of honey, 2 tsp. soda (no slide).
Beat the eggs and sugar with a whisk. Add honey, soda, butter to the mixture. Put the mass to warm up in a water bath: the sugar should completely dissolve. Remove the water bath, add flour in portions and knead the dough. It will turn out to be liquid. Cover the container with a napkin and remove for 1 hour. Then transfer the dough to a wooden board and knead, adding flour. This may require another glass of flour. To prevent the dough from sticking, grease your hands with oil.
Roll the dough into a wide slab and then divide it into 9-12 balls. Roll each ball into a thin cake with a diameter of 22-23 cm. Bake each cake in the oven at 200 degrees. Baking time: no more than 3 minutes. The cakes should be tender and soft. Not dry at all.
To make a honey cake, you need a cream. To make it, take 400 grams of sour cream 35% fat, 150 grams of cream 33% fat, 1 can of boiled condensed milk, 2 tbsp. honey. To prepare the cream, combine all the ingredients and whisk.
Coat each cake with cream, starting with the first and ending with the last. Use nuts to decorate the honey biscuit.
Thick honey biscuit recipe
The following recipe involves baking only one honey cake. For liquid biscuit dough you will need: 5 eggs, 1 glass of sugar, 6 tablespoons. honey, 2, 5 cups of wheat flour, 1 tsp. soda.
Heat honey and soda over low heat or in a water bath. The mixture should darken slightly and increase in volume. While the mixture is heating, beat 5 eggs and 1 cup sugar with a mixer. Beat until peaks: if you lift the egg mass with a spoon, small slides with peaks form. When the honey rises and darkens, add it to the beaten eggs and stir. Then start slowly adding flour. Stir the dough with a spoon only.
Bake the sponge cake in a round or rectangular shape in the oven. It is advisable to put oiled baking paper on the bottom of the mold. Baking temperature is traditional: 180 degrees. But the baking time depends on the size of the mold. On average, a biscuit takes 30-40 minutes to bake. If the baking tray is very large, it is quite possible that 25 minutes will be enough for baking. It is advisable to have a window in the oven through which you can see if the cake is burnt. Check the readiness of the biscuit with a wooden skewer or a toothpick.
When the biscuit is ready, remove it from the oven and let it cool. If the crust is thick enough, cut it in two.
