Delicious honey cake

Contents:

• The history of honey cake
• My favorite classic "Honey"
• Homemade honey cake: recipe
• Classic honey cake: recipe

Adding honey in breads and cakes began thousands of years ago in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece and Rome. The recipe, as a rule, was very simple: flour and honey mixed together and then the mixture was allowed to "sit" for about a month, until the yeast is not naturally occurring dough starts to rise. This formula has been very important for hundreds of years. Then came up to add extra ingredients such as spices, raisins and other dried fruits.

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The history of honey cake

The advantage of honey is not only its sweet taste, but also its ability to keep pastries fresh for a long time (the honey is an excellent liquid absorbent). With a weight of 1400 g, the cake can be cut into 16 pieces. If you leave the "Honey" at temperatures up to 6 ° Celsius, it will stay fresh for 20 days after the date of production. And it increases the shelf life of one year when it is stored with ice in the freezer.

Another important feature is the effect of honey on human health: According to traditional healers, honey helps fight flu, calm nerves and strengthen the entire body.

In the 12th century nuns in Germany invented a recipe for honey cake. Subsequently, other parts of Europe has become a cake biscuits with honey aroma.

At the same time in France, honey became known as "king of spices". It was added to the traditional French desserts. Each chef from a single county or district swore that his prescription was the best in all of France and contained the correct ratio of honey.

From France, the cake was in other countries such as Holland, Belgium and Italy, and in every place cake recipe further developed and acquired some local features. The recipes have been added spices such as anise, cinnamon and ginger. Ginger has become so popular that it has become a very well-known in England treat - famous gingerbread.

Russia, too, did not remain in storone.Traditsionny recipe ancient Slavs honey cake ordered to do five cakes laid on top of each other and separated kremom.On quite different from other cakes not only in their appearance.

From the outset, the classic "honey cake" attracts even the most demanding gourmets for its delicate flavor.

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My favorite classic "Honey"

Surely every woman stood in front of the problem: how to dessert treat their loved ones? Pancakes stuffed with cottage cheese? Biscuit? Charlotte? Each recipe in his own good, but this is no surprise. Then the question arises: how without unnecessary problems and costs to prepare something special, delicious homemade? The answer is quite simple - homemade honey cake!

"Yes this will take a lot of time and effort! "- You will object. And you will be wrong. Even those who do not like honey, will absolutely love the recipe! If you have already tried honey cake, forget about it! New taste dessert will seem perfect. A simple recipe will help you to please household fragrant, softest, juicy, warm honey cake.   Life is too short to eat dry, not sweet enough, "rough" cakes. So, here the recipe for the preparation.

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Homemade honey cake: recipe

Ingredients:

• 3, 5 cups (400 g) flour
• 1 h. L. (5 g) sodium
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 4 h. L. (approximately 8 g) ground cinnamon
• 1/2 h. L. ground cloves
• 1/2 h. L. ground pepper
• 1 cup (235 ml) vegetable oils
• 1 cup (340 g) of honey
• 1, 5 cups (300 g), sugar
• 1/2 cup (95g) brown sugar
• Three large eggs (at room temperature)
• 1 tsp (5 mL) vanilla extract
• 1 cup (235 ml) of warm coffee or strong tea
• 1/2 cup (120 mL) freshly squeezed orange juice
• 1/2 cup (45-55 grams) sliced ​​almonds

Preparation:

1. For starters preheat the oven to 200 ° C. Grease a baking dish with oil. If your form of deep, then it is desirable to lay out the bottom of the baking paper, cut to fit the shape.
2. In a large bowl, mix together flour, allspice, cinnamon, cloves, salt, baking soda. Make a well in the center and add the butter, honey, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, coffee, orange juice.
3. Using a powerful whisk or an electric mixer on low speed, mix, whisk together to make a thick, well-mixed dough. Make sure that the components are not left on the bottom.
4. Spoon batter into prepared pan (s). Sprinkle the top of the cake (s) uniformly almonds (chopped). In great shape cake will bake longer (60-75 minutes), a small - 40-45 minutes.
5. Bake until the top layer is not zarumyanitsya (40 minutes). Then cover with foil and continue baking another 15 minutes Check availability: slide a toothpick in the center of the cake if the toothpick will come out dry, it's ready.
6. Ready homemade cake in the form of leave on for 20 minutes, then it is possible to extract from it and cool.

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Classic honey cake: recipe

Ingredients:

• 9 egg yolks (room temperature).
• 1/2 Art. sugar
• 1 packet of butter
• 1/2 cup honey
• 1, 5 teaspoons of soda
• 3, 5 cups flour

Cream:

• jar of cream
• 1, 5-2 cups of sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Sprinkling:

• grated chocolate
• 1 / 2-1 cup of walnuts

Preparation:

1. Preheat oven to 200 °. On a sheet of lined baking parchment paper (you can use several sheets).
2. In a small bowl, mix the sugar and egg yolks, whisk with a mixer at medium speed for about 10 minutes. Set aside and move on to the next step, let the sugar until thoroughly dissolved.
3. Melt the butter in a steam bath. To the oil, add the honey. This also add baking soda, when the mixture begins to boil. This is a little trick that will make cakes fluffy. Mix for 20 seconds. As soon as you notice a change in color, remove the mixture from the heat.
4. Add a mixture of honey and butter to the sugar and egg yolk and mix well.
5. Slowly add flour mixture obtained in (a tablespoon) and stir. You should have a very soft and slightly crumbly / sticky dough (clay-like).
6. Divide it into three equal parts. Take one ball of dough and divide it into 4 equal parts. You need to distribute, "smear" his fingers on a sheet as thin as possible a layer of about 3 mm. Do not worry if you think that will be too thin, the cake should be almost transparent. And try to keep it as straight as possible.
7. Bake for no more than 5-6 minutes.
8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 with the remaining batter.

Cream:

1. Mix the sugar, sour cream and vanilla.
2. Whisk all very well for about 8 minutes to dissolve the sugar.

Putting it all together:

1. Spread 1/3 of the cream generously on the first layer.
2. Then make another layer and turn it upside down on the first layer so that the lower layer of the cake was addressed to you (if you notice a crack, do not worry, they will not be visible after the cream is absorbed). Spread 1/3 of the cream over the second layer, and finally finished adding the last layer (face up), and spread the remaining cream on top.
3. Cut the cake in half honey and half a cake, place on top of the other half. Trim the edges for a nice look of the cake.
4. Garnish with chocolate chips or nuts.
5. Leave the cake for 2 hours to cakes absorbed as much cream, then place it in the refrigerator at least 4 hours, preferably overnight.

Both turn out incredibly tasty cake. Choose a favorite recipe and cook it with pleasure. Believe me, it's worth it!