"Bee" Honey Cake
An airy dessert with a pronounced honey aroma. It is recommended to use high-quality honey. This recipe makes 6-8 servings.
- Total cooking time
- not set
- Number of servings
- 6
- Recipe difficulty
- 3 / 5
Ingredients
for 6 servings
- honey 200 g
- eggs 5
- sugar 100 g
- baking powder 1 tsp
- flour 500-550 g
- sour cream 500 g
- sugar 100-150 g
Instructions
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Heat the honey, stirring constantly, until it reaches a light brown shade.
Step 2 of 11
Separate the egg whites from the yolks. Mix the yolks with sugar until smooth.
Step 3 of 11
Let the honey cool slightly and add it to the yolk mixture. Stir.
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Stir in the flour together with baking powder and knead the dough.
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Beat the egg whites until foamy.
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Gently fold the beaten egg whites into the dough.
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Spread the dough in a layer of 0.5–1 cm in a greased baking pan (a pan with a diameter of 26 cm was used). Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. Bake for 8–10 minutes. Prepare 3–4 cake layers in this way.
Preparing the cream
Step 8 of 11
Mix the sour cream with sugar.
Step 9 of 11
Cover the first ready cake layer with a layer of cream.
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Cover with the next layer and spread with cream again. Repeat the process for all layers of the cake.
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Decorate the cake as desired. The author coated it with sour cream adding a little turmeric (yellow food coloring can be used instead). Cut strips 2 cm wide from foil and place them parallel on the surface of the cake at intervals of 1 cm. Sprinkle with poppy seeds and remove the foil. Place the cake in the refrigerator to soak for 6–7 hours.