The fact that homemade cakes are tastier than store bakery is a universally recognized fact. And not only because it is prepared from high-quality products (we do something for ourselves!). The secret of especially successful dishes is also that any skilled housewife, using classical recipes, adds something of her own to them, experimenting with the ingredients and their quantity. The result is such desserts that you lick your fingers!
Honey cake with dried fruits: preparation
An example is a pineapple honey. The famous cake is known in almost dozens of options. Each of them is good in its own way, and you probably have a proven and most successful way to prepare it. Want to try pineapple honey with dried fruit? Then you will need 3 eggs, a third glass of milk, the same amount of brandy or brandy, 2 cups of crushed dried fruit, 180 g of soft butter, half a can or more canned pineapples, sifted flour for kneading a dough of medium density, 100 g of liquid honey. To make a pineapple honey cake with a peculiar, very pleasant aftertaste, some components for dessert must be prepared in advance. In particular, sort out dried fruits, wash, dry and fill with alcohol. Cover the saucepan and let it brew for 8-10 hours.
Honey cake with dried fruits: pastries
The next day, you can already cook pineapple honey. To do this, remove the pineapple pulp from the can, let the juice drain and chop it into small cubes. Mix room temperature oil with honey and beat with a mixer until smooth. Continuing to beat, enter the eggs. Then add dried fruits taken out of cognac (do not squeeze, let alcohol get into the dough!) And pineapples. Shuffle. Pouring milk and adding flour, knead the dough, similar in consistency to thick sour cream. Thoroughly grease a baking dish (preferably a round one in which a cupcake is baked), put the dough in it with a spoon, flatten and place in a preheated oven. Bake for about 40 minutes, checking the readiness with a match: if it does not get dirty from the dough, then you can already take it out. When the
honey cake (the photo shows how delicious it looks) cools down a little, carefully remove it from the mold. Garnish with the remaining pineapple rings, sprinkle with powdered sugar, cut into slices and carry to the table.
Oatmeal Cake: Components
You will get original baking if you make dough for it from wheat flour and oatmeal. And so that the honey cake, the photo of which you see, is soft, gentle, you should make a cream for it. For the test, take 250 g of sifted flour of the highest grade and the same amount of oat flakes of the Extra type, half a glass of sugar and half a glass of honey, the same amount of sour cream, 100-120 g of butter or margarine, 1 egg and about half a teaspoon of baking soda. And since we have a honey cake with pineapple, then either store a jar of canned fruit or fresh.
Oatmeal Cake: Cooking
First, add soda to flour, mix and sift into a bowl. Separately, mix the butter at room temperature with sugar and rub until smooth. Add the remaining components there, mix again. Then pour in flour, knead the dough. Cover it and leave to “rest” for about 15 minutes. After that, divide the dough into several equal parts, roll them into round layers 3 mm thick and bake until golden in the oven, heated to 200 degrees. Or in a dry frying pan over gas. For cream, whisk one and a half cups of fresh, oily, thick sour cream with a glass of sugar. Cut the pineapple pulp into pieces. If there are walnuts, chop them. Generously grease each cake with cream, sprinkle with nuts, lay out pineapples. Cover the top of the cake with cream, slices of fruit and sprinkle with colored coconut flakes. Put the dessert in the refrigerator for a day - for impregnation. Honey cake pineapple baked according to this recipe will be a great decoration on the table for a family celebration.
Honey cake with cloves
If you like to experiment with spices, you will surely like this recipe. Its peculiarity lies in the fact that vanillin (or vanilla sugar, which, by the way, can be added to pastries according to the above recipes, especially to sour cream) and ground cloves are placed in the dough. But we’ll list all the components from which honey cake with pineapple is made: 250-300 grams of liquid honey or warmed, half a kilogram of flour, egg, 50-70 grams of margarine or butter (melted pork lard is also suitable), 100 grams of sugar, half a glass of strong infused tea - it is possible with aromatic additives - jasmine, lemon or bergamot. And also a dozen and a half dry ground cloves of cloves. Put honey, sugar, butter, egg, cloves in a bowl and pour tea. Stir, or whisk better. Pour baking soda into the flour and add everything to the oil mixture; knead the dough. Put it in an oiled baking dish with high sides and put in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 20 minutes. Take it out, wait until it cools down, then either cut it with silk thread or with a very sharp knife into 2 cakes. Cook condensed milk cream in advance. Cut the pineapple pulp into pieces. Put them on cakes, pour cream. Sprinkle grated milk chocolate on top of the cake, also oiled. Well, did you like it?
Honey cake with icing
And finally, another delicious
honey cake recipe. The highlight of the goodies is chocolate glaze. Ingredients: half a kilogram of flour, half a spoonful of baking powder or soda, 120 g butter or margarine, half a glass of sour cream and half a glass of honey, a glass of sugar, 2-3 eggs. Dissolve oil or margarine in a water bath. Add sugar with honey and stir until the components are dissolved (do not remove from the water bath). After that, remove the pan from the stove, pour the mass into a bowl, add flour, baking powder, sour cream and eggs and knead the dough. Roll into a ball, let it separate a little, then divide into 3 parts. Each roll into cake and bake for 15 minutes at a temperature of 220 degrees. Whip cream from 2 cups sour cream and a glass of sugar. Grease them with cakes, laying out slices of pineapple. Cook the icing from 3 tablespoons with a slide of cocoa, half a glass of sugar and 5 tablespoons of milk. Cooking time - 10 minutes. Let the icing cool to warm, pour the cake with it, put it in the refrigerator to freeze. And proudly show it home!