Cake cake cake from my childhood

The mere naming of cake cake brings back memories of an enjoyable evening with a Cup of tea or a fun birthday in childhood.

If you are now frowned and said, "Nothing! I don't like cake!", it's possible that you just got unlucky and have you tried the wrong cake!

To know the taste of this Cake forget the road Department cakes long-term storage. This Cake these cakes, oiled margarine, have nothing in common.
This cake the cake is delicious, tender, flavorful and not at all cloying dessert that will enjoy even those who don't like honey.

About the honey in the Cake, by the way, there is an interesting story about the Empress Elizaveta Alekseevna. Wife of Alexander I is not very fond of honey, and about her obsession knew all cooks and tried to cook food without the use of this product.

But one day in the kitchen worked very confectioner that this fact did not know. Because he only went to work and wanted to impress his talents to the Imperial family, he decided to prepare a special cake.

The recipe was a new, almost never used, so confectioner hoped to surprise and please the Emperor and his wife. And he did it! The cake turned out beyond praise: honey cakes with custard literally melted in your mouth. Empress dish appreciated and inquired about its composition. The confectioner already talked about the lack of Elizabeth Alexeevna to honey, and he was terribly embarrassed, said that the cake base - honey. But the Empress was not angry, on the contrary, they laughed. And ordered issue of inventive confectioner generous reward. Since the cake has become a favorite dessert of the Empress, and always attended the holiday feasts.

Cake cake is the most popular cake in Russia, most often it is made for children's parties. And now the cake the cake is on the menu of many expensive restaurants and it is always possible to find on store shelves in the section "Cakes". Cake cake is called differently. Sometimes you can find the name "Bee", "Honey", "Miracle" or simply "cake with sour cream".
But, of course, the most delicious cake that you prepared with your own hands. Each lady has her own unique and proven recipe of Cake, but perhaps they will be inspired by our choices make this dessert.

What are the disadvantages of cake? Perhaps there is one. This is the rate at which the cake will disappear from the table! Be sure your loved ones will eat the cooked cake and you won't have to worry about its shelf life!

If you want to make the cake the cake, then you'll find useful the following tips:

• When choosing a honey bear in mind that the taste of dark honey is more noticeable in the cake and it will give a stronger flavor.
• The less fat sour cream for the cream, the better soaked cake. But in this case, less of the cream will remain between the cakes. If you want more juicy and fatty cake, take the cream with a high percentage of fat and increase its proportion in the recipe.
• If you instead use soda baking powder, then add it at the end of kneading. Just mix the baking powder with the flour.

Classic honey cake

Need for the dough: 2 eggs, 1 Cup sugar, 3 cups flour, 3 tablespoons honey, 2 tsp. of baking soda (no slides, or one with a small hill), 1 tablespoon vinegar (9%).
Need for the cream: 1 egg, 1 tbsp. sugar, 1 tbsp. sour cream (20% better 30%), 200 grams of softened butter

For decoration:
A handful of walnuts, frozen chocolate.

Preparation:
In a water bath and whisk to whisk 2 eggs with 1 Cup sugar. Cook about 3-5 minutes until the mixture becomes light and more lush. Add the honey, without ceasing to interfere again beat.
Add 1 Cup flour, mix well, without removing from the bath. Add soda (not to cancel!), another Cup of flour and stir again. Then add 1 tablespoon of vinegar, mix well (dough will immediately become more porous) and add the last Cup of flour, again stir well and remove from the water bath.

The dough is spread on a floured table, allow to cool a little (should lie down for 2-3 minutes, not to cool completely). Then knead the dough by hand until smooth, slightly sticky mass.
Divide into 6 equal parts.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, roll out each portion of dough into a thin round cake. When rolling the dough a little take in flour to avoid sticking to the table. Before baking the cake prick with a fork in several places.

Bake the cakes for about 5 minutes each until smooth dark Golden color.
Prepare the cream: in a water bath, beat 1 egg and a Cup of sugar, add a Cup of sour cream and whisk well (with a mixer). Remove from bath, allow the mixture to cool slightly, add all the softened butter and beat for 5-10 minutes until the relative thick. If sour cream is quite liquid, you can add a bag of thickener cream.
Collect the cake! Liberally grease all cream cakes, letting it run for a few seconds on the edges of the top crust too well daubed cream.

Prepare crumbs for decoration: in a blender chop left over from the cake scraps and walnuts, resulting crumbs liberally sprinkle the cake from all sides to coat the side surfaces.
Sprinkle with grated frozen chocolate and put into the refrigerator to be impregnated (minimum 3 hours). Before serving, you can still sprinkle with grated chocolate.

Honey cake with condensed milk

Need for the dough: 3 eggs, 1 Cup sugar, 2 tablespoons honey, 1 teaspoon soda, 1.5 cups of flour.

Need for the cream: 200-300 grams of butter, 1 jar of condensed milk, cocoa (optional).

Preparation:
Eggs with sugar RUB with a wooden spoon until white or beat with a mixer. Add honey, stir. Pour the sifted flour and mix thoroughly to avoid lumps, then add soda, slaked vinegar or lemon juice. Stir the dough until smooth.

From the resulting dough to bake 4 cakes. To do this, divide the dough in a bowl into 4 parts, to move one part of the pan, greased with butter, evenly distribute the dough by hand, soaked in cold water.

Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes at 200 degrees. In the same way to bake the remaining 3 cakes.

To prepare the cream. Softened butter is whipped into a fluffy white mass and, continuing to whisk, add small amounts of condensed milk and cocoa (if you want to use it). The cooled cakes to straighten the knife and cream sandwiched. The top and sides of cake generously covered with cream.

Honey cake with condensed milk and sprinkle with crumb obtained by cutting of the cakes, or chopped nuts.

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