Who does not like honey? What sweet tooth would refuse him? This is one of the classic cakes along with "Prague", "Napoleon", "Curd", which have long been in great demand among consumers. It is these desserts that you can now find in absolutely any coffee shop, cafe, restaurant, in many catering and establishments. And why don't we make honey-chocolate cake at home in our own kitchen?
Honey cake
Even with the single name of this cake, sweets begin to intensify salivation. The taste of its soft cakes, generously saturated with cream, can not be confused with any other dessert.
The honey cake has been around for two hundred years. The recipe appeared when the personal cook of Emperor Alexander I prepared an interesting treat. Now there are many different variations of this dessert, but initially it looked like this: honey cakes soaked in sour cream.
Calorie honey
Of course, it is better to consider the exact calorie content yourself. Each cake has its own. After all, calorie content depends on what products and in what quantity you used.
For example, in a cake consisting of honey cakes and cream of condensed milk, about 478 kcal per 100 g of product.
Let's now go directly to the recipes for chocolate-honey cakes.
Classic honey recipe
What we need:
- some liquid honey (flower or linden);
- eggs
- sugar;
- butter;
- flour;
- baking powder.
How to cook:
- Melt honey with sugar and butter in a water bath.
- Add beaten eggs, baking powder and a little flour. Beat the mixture thoroughly with a mixer. See that there are no lumps left.
- Remove the mixture from the stove and bring to the consistency of a regular dough. Then put it in the refrigerator for forty minutes.
- Our cream is the simplest: beat sour cream with sugar. Condensed milk is sometimes added.
- Cut the dough into several parts. These are our future cakes. Roll each very thinly. Cut a plate so that they are the same.
- Pierce the cakes in several places with a fork or a toothpick and bake for about six minutes. Trim the excess with shortcakes, then grind these scraps into crumbs (we will sprinkle the top of the cake with it).
- Fold one cake to another, generously smearing with sour cream (or any other) cream.
Honey-chocolate cake with sour cream
We offer to prepare a honey cake with chocolate cakes. Are you looking for a recipe for chocolate honey cake with sour cream? No need to look for anything - he is already here. Just learn this simple recipe:
For shortcakes you need:
- two tbsp. tablespoons of honey;
- two chicken eggs;
- Art. granulated sugar;
- fifty grams of plums. oils;
- three tbsp. tablespoons of cocoa;
- teaspoon of soda (we will not extinguish);
- four tbsp. flour.
For cream:
- three hundred grams of sugar;
- five hundred grams of sour cream.
We start to cook:
- Put butter, sugar, eggs and honey in a saucepan and cook in a water bath. When the mass becomes liquid, add soda and mix. The contents of the pan doubles.
- Remove the pan from the stove. Add the sifted flour there along with cocoa. Mix to make a full dough.
- We form a few balls, wrap them in cellophane. We put it in the refrigerator for about an hour.
- Then we need to roll each part of the dough thinly. Bake cakes for about four minutes in the oven.
- Using a stencil or plate, we cut off all unnecessary in the cakes.
- Cooking cream: whisk the sour cream with a mixer with sugar.
- We collect the cake: put each cake on the other, smearing everything with sour cream. Then anoint the whole cake when you assemble it.
- We do not throw away the scraps from the cakes, but turn them into crumbs, with which we sprinkle the top and sides. We leave dessert for two hours. Then we remove it all night in the refrigerator.
So insanely delicious dessert is ready for breakfast. Honey cake with chocolate cakes will appeal not only to children, but also to adults. Serve with tea, coffee, milk or juice. A photo of a honey-chocolate cake decorated with waffles and berries, below. Can serve as an example of dessert decoration.
Chocolate honey decorated with nuts
Now consider a variant of a cake with nuts. The classic version of the decor in cooking.
What is required for shortcakes:
- four hundred grams of flour;
- egg;
- six tbsp. tablespoons of sugar;
- thirty grams of plums. oils;
- teaspoon of soda;
- two tbsp. tablespoons of honey;
- three tbsp. tablespoons of milk;
- three tbsp. tablespoons of cocoa.
What is required for the cream:
- egg;
- two tbsp. tablespoons of flour;
- one hundred grams of sugar;
- three hundred ml of milk;
- three packs of plums. oils;
- Art. walnuts.
Cooking method:
- In a bowl, combine the drain. butter with honey, milk, sugar, egg and soda. Melt everything, stirring, over medium heat. Cook until the color of the mixture changes. Remove from the stove.
- Add the sifted flour to the mass along with cocoa. We form the dough. We divide it into three parts. Roll out a few cake layers thinly. If sticking to a surface or hands, sprinkle with flour.
- It is necessary to bake at 200 degrees for just a couple of minutes on a baking sheet.
- Cut circles out of cake layers using a plate or stencil.
- Make a cream of egg whipped with sugar. Add flour milk. Cook this mixture in a saucepan over low heat. We will end up with custard. Cook until the mass becomes thick. Cool.
- Butter should be softened (just leave it to cook for an hour or two at room temperature, otherwise use a microwave) and begin to whisk until the color changes. Then gradually add our cream without stopping whipping.
- Grind the nuts in any way (blender or rolling pin).
- Either grind crumbs of crust into crumbs, or sacrifice a whole crust. Sprinkle crumbs on top and sides of the finished cake.
- We spread the cakes on a dish, smearing each with our cream. Put a few nuts between each layer.
- Sprinkle the top with crumbs and then nuts. You can also sprinkle with grated chocolate.
- After two hours at room temperature, the cake should be refrigerated for another two hours.
- You can glaze and decorate with any seasonal berries.
So we got an amazingly delicious honey-chocolate cake with nuts. When you bake cakes, the aroma will stand on the entire stairwell. Get ready to receive guests, namely neighbors!
Honey chocolate cake with icing and prune
Prunes are very beneficial for our body, so we will add it to the layers of dessert. Let's analyze another recipe for honey-chocolate cake. With the photo, you will definitely orient yourself and do everything right.
What you need for cake:
- two and a half cups of flour;
- egg;
- three tbsp. tablespoons of cocoa;
- six tbsp. tablespoons of milk;
- four tbsp. tablespoons of sugar;
- two tbsp. tablespoons of honey;
- fifty grams of plums. oils;
- 1.5 teaspoons of soda;
- teaspoon of baking powder;
- four tbsp. tablespoons of cream (10%).
What is needed for the cream:
- a pound of sour cream (30%);
- Art. granulated sugar;
- two hundred grams of prunes.
For glaze:
- two tbsp. tablespoons of cocoa;
- four tbsp. tablespoons of sugar;
- six tbsp. tablespoons of water;
- two teaspoons of plums. oils.
Cooking method:
- In a water bath, melt honey, cocoa, sugar, milk and plums. oil. Warm, stirring, until smooth. Then you need to add soda. The mass will begin to increase and foam.
- Heat the mass for about seven minutes, stirring occasionally. When the foam stops forming, remove the pan from the stove. Let the mixture cool. Then you need to add the egg and mix.
- Add flour with baking powder and knead the dough. Put in the refrigerator for forty minutes.
- Then divide the dough into eight parts and roll out thin layers. Sprinkle with flour and bake for five minutes in the oven.
- Cut the cakes with a plate. Turn the scraps into crumbs.
- Cooking cream: beat sour cream with sugar.
- Wash prunes under running water and pour boiling water over boiling water for ten minutes so that it boils and swells. Then drain the liquid and rinse the prunes again. Cut it into small pieces.
- We put each cake one on top of another, spreading it with heavy cream, and then with sour cream, spreading pieces of prune in each layer. Do not coat the top of the cake. Refrigerate for fifteen minutes while we make the icing.
- Cooking the icing: mix hot water, cocoa and sugar in a saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil and cook, stirring, for another two minutes. Add drain. oil, stir.
- Apply the icing in two steps: first spread the whole cake. Put in the refrigerator for ten minutes. Then coat the second layer of glaze again.
- Sprinkle crumbs on the sides of the cake. Top can be decorated with strawberries.
- Let the cake soak for four hours.
Prunes add a sweet, spicy touch to the cake, combined with honey.
Cream Secrets
- To make the cream tender and airy, choose fresh sour cream of high fat content. When whipping cream, sour cream should be chilled.
- If your sour cream is liquid, it will adversely affect the cream of the cake. How to proceed? It is only necessary to allow excess water to drain. To do this, hang it in gauze for three hours.
- Did you know that butter, jam, coconut flakes, chopped nuts, fruits, cocoa powder, grated chocolate, citrus zest are also added to the cream? This will greatly improve the taste of the cream, making it more saturated and vibrant. For example, the zest will add subtle citrus notes to the taste.
- For better cream consistency, use powdered sugar, not sugar, when you whip the cream.
Lifehacks for making cakes
- From the dough, which is based on honey, melted in a water bath, the cakes are especially tender and amazingly soft.
- Honey in Germany is made using yeast.
- To make the cakes airy, it is best to sift the flour. And the eggs should have room temperature - put them out of the refrigerator an hour before starting to cook.
- Buckwheat honey is not suitable for the cake, because the dessert will be bitter.
- There are many lean recipes that do not include eggs and butter.
Armed with knowledge, you will bake your perfect dessert. Indulge yourself and your loved ones.
Honey cake baking algorithm
In principle, it is not necessary to paint the step-by-step preparation of the cake. There is only one algorithm: if you want to make dark cakes, add cocoa powder or some dark chocolate to the dough. If you want to make the cream dark, add the above ingredients there.
Such cakes based on honey are baked for a short time: only a couple of minutes, a maximum of ten.
Cutting cakes, grind the remains into crumbs.
If you wish, you can make glaze, you can leave it naked and only decorate it with fruits, berries or nuts.
You can add something to the layers along with the cream.
Honey cake with chocolate cream
To prepare a honey cake with chocolate cream, you should bake cakes, relying on any recipe above. How is chocolate cream made?
Ingredients:
- liter of milk;
- four eggs;
- two and a half glasses of sugar;
- 2 pack vanilla sugar;
- fifty grams of flour;
- eighty grams of plums. oils;
- chocolate.
Cooking Chocolate Custard
- Beat eggs, two types of sugar and flour.
- Heat the milk in a saucepan over low heat, after boiling, pour in a third of our egg mixture and mix. Now another third. Mix. And the last third. Stir again.
- Tip: we interfere with the cream constantly! Otherwise it will burn. After thickening our cream, remove the pan from the stove and add the broken pieces of chocolate with butter. Mix until smooth.
- The cream is cooled in the refrigerator for about three hours.
As a result, collecting and missing each cake, we get a chocolate-honey cake with custard.
Bon Appetit!