Honey cake

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to bake a honey cake? Prepare the products. Choose honey of good quality, natural, it is better if it is liquid. If your honey is candied, then melt it in a water bath. Take black tea without additives. You can take brown sugar, the cake will get a caramel taste.

2. Step 2:

   

   Boil water and brew tea using a teaspoon of tea leaves and 70 ml of boiling water. Let the tea brew.

3. Step 3:

   

   Add honey, sugar and tea leaves to the saucepan, straining it through a strainer.

4. Step 4:

   

   Put the saucepan on the fire. Cook, stirring, until the mixture boils. After boiling, cook for a couple more minutes. Make the fire small, the mixture boils strongly and can escape. Then turn off the heating and leave to cool down to a warm state.

5. Step 5:

   

   Add soda to the cooled mixture, mix well. After a while, the foam will rise. Add cinnamon and ground cloves. Mix it up.

7. Step 6:

   

   Sift flour. It is important to sift the flour to saturate it with oxygen. Then the baking will turn out to be airy and will rise well when baking.

8. Step 7:

   

   Pour the honey mixture into the flour and knead the dough. It turns out to be fluid, like thick sour cream.

9. Step 8:

   

   Grease the mold with vegetable oil. Pour the dough into the mold, smooth the surface with a spatula. I took a detachable one with a diameter of 20 cm.

10. Step 9:

    

    Bake the gingerbread in the oven at 180 ° C for 30-40 minutes. Check the readiness with a wooden stick — stick it in the middle of the pie, when taking it out it should be dry. Cool the finished gingerbread a little and remove it from the mold. Enjoy your meal!