Honey cake with sour cream: general cooking principles
Gentle juicy honey cake with sour cream is one of the most favorite homemade desserts. The classic recipe for this cake is over two hundred years old. He was invented by the confectioner of the emperor of Russia Alexander I at the end of the 18th century.
A distinct honey note makes all the variations of this delicacy similar, but each hostess makes it differently. It's all about the cream and filling. It is they who give the honey with sour cream originality.
In the preparation of delicacies, it is important to adhere to two mandatory principles: the use of honey and brewing dough in a water bath.
The taste of honey cake with sour cream cannot be confused with any other dessert. Baking a dozen cake layers and putting together a puff cake is quite troublesome. But the housewives, nevertheless, love to indulge their loved ones with such homemade desserts, because a honey miracle is prepared from the available ingredients: honey, flour, sugar, eggs and sour cream.
All other delights such as fresh berries, condensed milk, bananas, chocolate and cocoa are variations and are used to taste.
To make choux pastry with sour cream, mix butter, sugar and honey, melt everything using a water bath until smooth (about 20 minutes), add sour vinegar or lemon juice.
Then remove from heat, quickly drive eggs into the honey base. When it has cooled down a bit, knead the dough, wrap it in plastic and put it in the cold for half an hour.
Form from dough 9 -12 parts, roll into the thinnest flat cakes, with a fork make a few chops so that the dough does not swell, and bake at a temperature of from 180 to 200 degrees for no more than five minutes.
You can give a round shape to the cake in two ways: either cut the dough immediately using a dish, or do it after baking. Trimming should be crushed with a rolling pin or in a blender and used for sprinkling the finished product.
Honey cake with sour cream (classic)
Bake honey cake with sour cream according to the classic recipe is quite simple. The taste of delicacy is the same, homely, fragrant and delicate. Compared to other variations, the classic dessert is the lightest in terms of calories.
Ingredients:
- flour - three or four glasses;
- half a pack of butter;
- sugar - one cup into the dough, one-third cup into the cream;
- two eggs;
- two art. spoons of honey;
- a pound of sour cream;
- soda.
Preparation:
There will be enough test for nine cake layers. How to prepare cakes for honey cake with sour cream you already know.
To prepare the cream, it is necessary to slowly, at medium speed of a mixer, whip fat sour cream with sugar until it is completely dissolved. If desired, add vanilla.
To collect the cake, promazyvaya each layer of cream. On the cake is enough two or three spoons. You can slightly seal the cake, putting it for a few minutes under pressure. Then smear the cream on all sides, decorate with a dusting of crushed test scraps, leave for two hours in the cold for impregnation.
Honey cake with sour cream (with condensed milk)
The addition of condensed milk gives a highlight to the honey cake with sour cream.
Two kinds of cream are used to combine the cake layers: in addition to sour cream, a cream based on condensed milk is prepared. They create a rather interesting flavor pair. The duet can be supplemented with chopped and roasted nuts: walnuts, almond, cashews.
Ingredients:
- sugar - one and a half glasses for dough and cream;
- butter - 50 g for the dough, standard pack - for the cream;
- pound of flour;
- 4 tablespoons of honey;
- soda;
- a pound of sour cream;
- can of condensed milk.
Preparation:
Dough preparation differs from the classic recipe: a third of the flour should be added to the container with the main ingredients even in the water bath and brew the batter. Then remove from heat, add some more flour, put the slightly thickened mixture on the table and knead the elastic, not too steep dough. Then divide it into eight parts and send in the refrigerator for half an hour. Bake cakes. Sour cream is prepared according to the basic recipe. For the second composition separately beat the condensed milk with butter. When dressing cakes, alternate sour cream and condensed milk, generously flavoring the layers. Soak for at least two hours in the refrigerator.
Honey cake with sour cream (fancy)
The third option - fantasy.
Sandwich honey cake with sour cream, you need to use a combination of prunes and banana. The festive taste of the treat will not be spoiled if you take dried apricots or fruit to taste instead of prunes.
This version of the dessert is less calorie than the previous one.
Ingredients:
- half a kilo of flour;
- two eggs;
- sugar - one glass each for dough and sour cream;
- 2 tablespoons of honey;
- soda;
- half a pack of butter;
- a pound of sour cream;
- 10 prune stuff (dried apricots);
- two medium bananas.
Method of preparation
This variant of dough preparation involves the introduction of eggs while working with a honey base. The mixture must be constantly stirred for ten minutes, so that the protein does not curl, and oil is added at the very end of the longing. Then remove from heat and knead the dough according to the basic recipe. Bake eight cakes.
Prepare sour cream. Finely chop the prunes and slices - banana. When collecting the cake, pour the cakes alternately with prunes and banana slices. Decorate with cream, dough crumb, if desired, also with berries, send for a two-hour impregnation.
Honey cake with sour cream (caramel with raspberry)
Magic caramel honey cake with sour cream and raspberries is another version of the cake that can become a real culinary masterpiece.
The highlight of the delicacy is not only in a refined flavor bouquet made up of honey, caramel and raspberry, but also in the combination of two types of cream: sour cream and protein.
Ingredients:
- 3-4 glasses of flour;
- sugar - one third glass for dough, one glass each for caramel and sour cream;
- 3 tablespoons of honey;
- two eggs for the test, 4 proteins for the cream;
- half a pack of butter;
- soda;
- one or two glasses of raspberry;
- a glass of sour cream;
- 4 tablespoons of water;
Method of preparation
Prepare caramel for the dough. To do this: melt the sugar in a bowl (you can add a spoonful of water), wait until boiling appears and a characteristic brown color appears. Introduce butter, honey, cool slightly, beat eggs and mix well with a mixer. Then, gradually adding flour with soda, knead the dough. Bake ten cakes.
Prepare sour cream and do protein: whip cold squirrels, adding a pinch of salt and achieving the effect of “stable peaks”. Prepare the caramel, pour it in a hot stream into the whites, without stopping to whip the cream for about five minutes. Mix protein and part of cream cream.
Collecting honey cake with sour cream, on each layer can be laid raspberry berries. Spread, sprinkle with crumb, garnish with the remaining berries, clean in a cold place for three hours.
Honey cake with sour cream (chocolate covered)
An interesting version of honey cake with sour cream is a royal gift for chocolate lovers. Only an experienced housewife can cook such a dessert, it is rather difficult, but worth it.
Poured with chocolate icing, this cake will create a festive atmosphere.
Ingredients:
- pound of flour for dough (or a little less) plus 3 pp. for cream;
- sugar - a third of a glass in the dough, one glass for sour cream;
- one egg in the dough and cream;
- butter - one Art. l in the dough, a pack - for the cream, half a bag - for the glaze;
- 2 tablespoons of honey;
- 3 spoons of milk for the dough, half a liter for the cream;
- soda;
- 3 tablespoons of cocoa;
- walnuts for decoration;
- chocolate bar;
- a glass of sour cream.
Cooking
Prepare the dough in the basic recipe, adding to the cocoa flour. Bake seven cakes. Prepare sour cream, and then custard. For the latter, mix sugar and egg with a mixer, gradually pour in flour, pour in milk, boil over low heat until thick. When the cream is completely cool, add soft butter and whip again.
To collect the cake, promazyvaya cakes creams and sprinkling layers of nut crumbs. Leave for two hours without refrigerating.
Prepare the icing by melting the chocolate in a water bath and mixing it with soft butter. When the icing podstylet, pour it a treat and clean in the cold.
Honey cake with sour cream: tricks and useful tips
When baking cakes, it is not necessary to lubricate the form with butter - it is enough just to sprinkle its surface with flour, because the butter is already in the dough.
It is important not to dry cakes when baking. Thin dough is baked almost instantly. Once the color of the cake has acquired a golden hue - it's time to take the form out of the oven.
If you want to get a characteristic wet impregnation from honey cake with sour cream, you can preliminarily, before smearing with cream, sprinkle the layers with brandy, water, tea, compote.
