Sour cream honey cake

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a sour cream and honey cake? Prepare the products. First for making cakes. Take natural honey, it is better if it is liquid. If you only have candied and thick, then melt it in a water bath. Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance, it should become soft.

2. Step 2:

   

   How to make cakes? We will prepare the dough for them in a custard way. In a suitable saucepan, whisk the eggs with sugar until smooth.

3. Step 3:

   

   Add soft butter, stir.

4. Step 4:

   

   Put the saucepan on a slow fire. Put honey in a sweet egg-butter mixture.

5. Step 5:

   

   Constantly stirring the mass, boil the mixture until the oil and honey are completely dissolved.

6. Step 6:

   

   Then add the slaked soda (you can extinguish it with vinegar or lemon juice). Mix everything well. The mass will begin to foam and increase slightly in volume. Stirring constantly, keep the mixture on the stove for another 1-2 minutes, then remove. Let the mass cool down a little.

7. Step 7:

   

   Pour in the sifted flour in portions, kneading the dough with a spatula. Flour may need a little less or more, depending on its quality. The dough should be soft, it will remain a little sticky, and it should be.

8. Step 8:

   

   Roll the sausage out of it, then divide it into 9 parts.

9. Step 9:

   

   We start rolling out honey cakes. Sprinkle the work surface with flour. Roll out the cake very thinly (about 3-4 mm thick). It is not necessary to trim the cake immediately, you will do it after baking. Transfer the cake with a rolling pin to a greased baking sheet.

11. Step 10:

    

    Bake the cake in an oven heated to 170-180 degrees until golden brown. Be careful, the cakes are baked very quickly (5-7 minutes). While one cake is baking, roll out the next one in the same way. Thus, the baking process is fast. The baked cake is immediately cut off on a plate of the required diameter. Do it quickly, as honey cakes have a feature of hardening and becoming brittle. The trimmings will be used to decorate the cake.

12. Step 11:

    

    After pruning, place the cake on a flat surface. Stack the baked cakes one on top of the other.

13. Step 12:

    

    Now let's prepare the cream. Prepare the ingredients for it. Choose a fatter sour cream. To make the sour cream thick, weigh it in a linen napkin overnight. Excess liquid will drain from it, and it will become much thicker. Instead of sugar, you can take powdered sugar, it will dissolve faster in the cream.

14. Step 13:

    

    How to make cake cream? To make the cream, mix sour cream, sugar and vanilla sugar. Let the cream stand a little at room temperature so that the sugar dissolves. It is not necessary to beat such a cream, especially if the sour cream is thick after weighing.

15. Step 14:

    

    It remains to assemble the cake. Put the cake on a flat plate and spread it liberally with cream. Put the next cake on top. And so, smearing all the cakes, collect the whole cake.

16. Step 15:

    

    The top and sides of the cake are also well smeared with cream.

17. Step 16:

    

    Cut the cakes using a rolling pin or blender. Sprinkle the top and sides of the cake with crumbs. Put the finished cake in the refrigerator for 7-8 hours. The best option is to leave the cake overnight, so it will soak well.

18. Step 17:

    

    Serve the cake with tea or coffee. Enjoy your meal!