A delicious honey cake with sour cream (which is also added for variety cream, condensed milk, fruit juice, pieces of fresh fruits and berries, dried fruits, nuts) can be prepared at home according to several recipes. Namely: classic, with honey-biscuit cake, with chocolate icing, in a slow cooker and so on.
The top of the dessert (and sometimes the side), except for the cream, is decorated with crumbs from crusts, chopped and whole nuts, berries, slices of fruit.
How to cook a honey cake with sour cream? Read about it in the article.
History
It turns out that this dessert is more than two centuries old. It was first baked for the wife of Alexander I, Empress Elizabeth Alekseevna, a skilled craftsman (late XVIII - early XIX centuries).
The whole family of the royal person, as well as the courtiers, cooks and servants, were aware that Her Majesty did not favor honey and all dishes in which this ingredient was added.
But once at the court a new culinary specialist appeared - a wonderful pastry chef, who, unaware of Elizabeth’s hostility to honey, prepared a classic honey cake with sour cream.
He was presented to the imperial table. And, to the surprise of all subjects, a real miracle happened: instead of anger, the empress expressed joy and amazement from a tender dessert. And the cook-wizard bestowed with all kinds of honors and attention that a servant could receive from a high-ranking person in those days.
Since then, honey has become a very popular confectionery. This continues to the present. Dessert is often ordered from professionals or baked at home for weddings, children's birthdays, proms and so on.
Most often, Slavic housewives prepare the cake, but they also love this delicacy in Europe.
Description
Cooking such a cake is not difficult and practically does not require special knowledge. Often the culinary career of a young housewife begins with this dessert.
The recipes of honey cake with sour cream are varied, but they have one thing in common: a healthy component is added to the dough for cakes - honey, and the cream is made on the basis of sour cream.
Although some housewives and pastry chefs prepare honey with custard or cream. It all depends on personal tastes and preferences.
Sour cream is the easiest and fastest to prepare. He quickly infiltrates cakes.
Therefore, the article will consider several recipes for honey cakes with sour cream.
Classic version
This is the most popular honey cake that many sweet tooth people love. And his recipe is known to all Russian hostesses.
Cooking:
- For the test, you need to combine heated liquid honey (60 milliliters), 150 grams of sugar, 100 grams of margarine, eggs (2 pieces), flour (450 grams) and a baking powder (20 grams).
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
- Divide the mass into several equal parts and bake cakes from them (approximately 5-6 pieces).
- Beat sour cream (400 milliliters) and 150 grams of sugar with a mixer, cool.
- Soak warm cakes with cream, including the topmost one.
- Garnish the cake (optional) with nuts, crumbs, and powdered sugar.
Honey cake with cream of sour cream with condensed milk
This is a gentle honey cake with sour cream, in which condensed milk is added. The result is a delicious confectionery product that has a touch of milk chocolate.
This is one of the best recipes for this sweet dessert. But the same simple, understandable and inexpensive in terms of cost of the necessary ingredients.
Cooking:
- To beaten eggs (3 pieces) put honey (150 milliliters), butter (100 grams), sugar (100 grams).
- Melt the mass on the stove, pour 15 grams of soda (slaked vinegar).
- Mix the mixture with flour (350 grams).
- Bake 5-7 cakes in a preheated oven (200 degrees).
- Prepare a cream of boiled condensed milk (200 milliliters), which must be beaten with a blender, and 500 milliliters of sour cream (30% fat), which is added a little in the process.
- Spread cakes in detachable form, smearing each cream.
- Garnish with crumbs and walnuts.
Sponge cake with prunes
A honey cake with sour cream and cakes cooked according to a biscuit recipe is soft, airy and large. And for even greater aroma and spicy taste, you can add slices of prunes to the cream.
The total cooking time is 3 hours.
Cooking:
- For the test beat eggs (4 pieces) with sugar (100 grams).
- Melt honey (250 ml) and pour into the mixture, add salt (5 grams), soda (10 grams) and 750 grams of flour (sifted).
- Heat the oven to 200 ° C.
- Put the dough into the mold and bake 2 cakes in turn, cool.
- Boil prunes (250 grams): the crushed fruit will go into the cream, and the liquid - in the impregnation for cakes.
- Mix 50 milliliters of honey, vodka (15 milliliters) and a decoction of prunes, soak the surface of the cakes.
- Prepare the cream: beat the sour cream (1 liter) and sugar (250 grams), add prunes.
- Coat the cake with cream, including the top.
Chocolate Frosted Honey Cake
A delicious homemade biscuit honey cake with a delicate cream inside, covered with a layer of dark chocolate with honey, will be an excellent dessert for your beloved family on a weekend or holiday.
Ingredients:
- 150 grams of butter (of which 50 g is glaze);
- 6 tablespoons of flower honey (half a serving will go to the dough, the rest - for the cream);
- 750 grams of flour;
- 3 eggs;
- 10 grams of soda;
- 400 grams of sugar (150 g - dough, 250 g - cream);
- 5 grams of salt;
- 1200 milliliters of sour cream (fat content 20%);
- 30 milliliters of lemon juice;
- 100 grams of dark chocolate.
Cooking honey biscuit cake with sour cream:
- Sugar (150 g), 3 tablespoons of honey and 100 grams of butter put in a deep pot and melt.
- Beat eggs, add soda.
- Pour the mass into a preheated honey mixture with a dynamic jet with dynamic stirring (foam forms).
- Cool the dough mix, then add the sifted flour.
- Preheat the oven (180 ° C), bake the cake until ready.
- Mix 200 milliliters of sour cream and 250 g of sugar, beat, add lemon juice.
- Divide warm cake into 2-3 parts (along), grease with cream.
- Prepare the icing from 1 liter of sour cream and a bar of chocolate on the stove, add honey. Pour the finished cake.
Honey cake with fruits
An original recipe that diversifies the collection of desserts, and also delight with the vitamin composition - kiwi, pineapple and other fruits and berries that can be added to this cake.
Ingredients:
- flour - 1.2 kilograms;
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- margarine - 250 grams;
- sugar - 350 grams (100 g - dough, 250 g - cream);
- honey (buckwheat or the one that is) - 100 milliliters;
- soda - 10 grams;
- vanilla - 2 grams;
- sour cream - 1 liter;
- lemon juice - 3 milliliters;
- Kiwi, canned pineapple.
Cooking:
- Mix flour, sugar (100 g), beaten eggs, vanilla, heated honey with soda.
- Melt margarine and pour to the dough, knead.
- Divide the resulting mass into 6 parts (future cakes), which must be put in the cold for 60 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 200 ° C.
- Roll out cakes (of the same size) and bake.
- Prepare a cream of sour cream, sugar (250 g) and lemon juice, beat and cool.
- Chop the fruit into medium slices.
- Coat the cakes and the top of the cake with fruit cream.
Cream Sour Cream Cake
A wonderful option for making honey cake. High-fat cream is added to the sour cream, which is the highlight of this dessert.
Ingredients for cakes:
- butter - 100 grams;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- sugar - 200 grams;
- honey - 50 milliliters;
- flour - 450 grams;
- baking powder - 5 grams.
Step by step cooking.
- Combine and grind the eggs with sugar.
- Heat the oil to a liquid state, pour in honey.
- Add hot ingredients to the mixture.
- Pour flour (passed through a sieve) and baking powder.
- From the dough to cook 6 cakes (bake at 200 degrees).
Cream of sour cream and cream is an unusually delicious and lush component, which is great for biscuits, honey cakes and other confectionery.
For cooking you need:
- mix ½ cup sour cream (30% fat content) with a glass of cream (20%);
- cool the mixture with a container of ice water in which a bowl of cream is placed;
- Beat sour cream with cream, add 20 grams of vanilla sugar and the same amount of powdered sugar.
Air cream grease all the cakes. Garnish the cake with fruit slices, berries, crushed nuts.
Honey cake on kefir
It turns out that this cake can also be prepared using kefir. All housewives and professional confectioners know that such a component makes the finished dish unusually airy, soft, voluminous.
Honey cake with sour cream kefir will be prepared from the following ingredients:
- flour - 500 grams;
- baking powder - 10 grams;
- kefir - 0.5 liters;
- sugar - 600 grams;
- honey - 50 milliliters;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- sour cream - 1 liter;
- dried apricots - 100 grams;
- almonds - 150 grams.
Cooking:
- Beat yolks and proteins alternately, add sugar (500 grams) to the first component.
- Heat honey on a plate, mix with yolks.
- Pour kefir into the mixture, pour out flour and baking powder.
- Beat the dough mixture with a mixer, add the proteins and mix.
- Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
- Put ½ part of the dough into a mold, bake each cake for 30 minutes.
- Prepare a cream: chop dried apricots and nuts, beat sour cream with 100 g of sugar.
- Of the two cakes, four can be made with a knife or thread.
- Grease each of them with cream and sprinkle with dried apricots.
- Garnish the top cake with sour cream.
Honey cake in a slow cooker
A great alternative to the classic and other honey cake recipes with sour cream will be the one prepared in a modern kitchen appliance - a multicooker.
In time, the process will take about 2 hours. Each stage is very easy and understandable, which is suitable for housewives with little culinary experience.
But in the end, it turns out a delicious sweet miracle with the aroma of honey in every piece of cake.
Ingredients:
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- sugar - 150 grams;
- honey - 60 milliliters;
- flour - 400 grams;
- sour cream (30% fat content) - 0.5 liters;
- baking powder - 10 grams;
- icing sugar - 50 grams;
- walnuts - 100 grams;
- vanilla - 1 gram.
Cooking:
- Beat sugar and eggs with a mixer.
- Add hot honey to the mixture, beat.
- Flour through a sieve, add baking powder and pour into a honey mixture.
- Oil the multicooker bowl and lay out the dough for the cake.
- Cook for 80 minutes on the Baking program.
- Mix powdered sugar with vanilla and pour into sour cream, whip cream.
- Divide the cake into 3-4 parts (to get a multi-level cake), grease each.
- Smear the side and top of the dessert with sour cream, cover with chopped nuts.
Summary
Honey cake with sour cream at all times and today is considered one of the favorite desserts, which is a frequent guest of the holiday tables: New Year's, birthday, wedding.
It is prepared both at home and in pastry shops. At the cost of all the ingredients, the Honey cake is considered a rather economical treat.