Honey cake in a water bath

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Put butter, honey and sugar in a spacious metal bowl or in a saucepan. Put everything in a water bath. Wait until everything melts and the mass becomes homogeneous.

2. Step 2:

   

   Add soda to the mass and actively stir. The mass will foam strongly and increase in volume. Cook until the color becomes caramel. Then remove the mass and let it cool down a little.

3. Step 3:

   

   Then add eggs to the mass and gradually add flour, knead the dough. Flour may need a little more or less than indicated. During the intervention, watch the consistency of the dough. The dough should be of such a consistency that it will seem that you need to add a little more flour. But it's worth stopping here. Put the dough in the refrigerator for a few hours. It will cool down and take in all the flour. And it will stop sticking to your hands.

4. Step 4:

   

   Roll out the finished dough and cut out the cakes of the required diameter from it.

6. Step 5:

   

   Remove excess dough. And pierce the cakes themselves with a fork around the perimeter. This is necessary so that bubbles do not appear on the cakes during baking. Place the baking sheet in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees for 4-6 minutes. Cakes are baked very quickly, so do not go far from the oven. Cool the finished cakes.

7. Step 6:

   

   To prepare the cream, combine the fatty sour cream (with a fat content of at least 25%) and whisk everything into a lush, stable cream.

8. Step 7:

   

   Layer honey cakes liberally with cream and assemble the cake.

9. Step 8:

   

   The top and sides of the cake are also liberally smeared with cream and put in the refrigerator for soaking. The finished cake can be sprinkled with grated chocolate or sprinkled with chocolate glaze. And you can bake the remains of the dough. Then grind them into crumbs and sprinkle them all over the cake. Look at your special occasion. Have a nice tea party!