Who doesn't know the honey? The most popular cake, which is prepared in all pastry shops and sold everywhere. Why not make it at home? That's just what you need: a few products and a bath, but not simple, but water. Everything in order!
Honey cake in a water bath - general principles of preparation
A water bath is a special way of heating products, which is distinguished by delicacy. The sweet mixture will not burn, will not stick to the walls of the dishes and it will turn out exactly the way you need it. The bath is used for creams, dough, glaze. It is actively used for cooking honey, almost all known recipes require delicate heating.
Basic cooking rules:
• All the ingredients for the cake must be weighed, it is important to keep the proportion, but if the dough is weak, you can pour more flour. Humidity in products is different.
• Warming up the honey mass should be done under control. If overexposed, the dough will be dark, and the dessert with bitterness.
• Cakes can be rolled immediately on a laid baking sheet. Then a pan cover is applied to the formation. Just select a circle of suitable diameter, all excess is cut off. Or roll and cut on the table, and then transfer the cake to the sheet, wound on a rolling pin.
• Before baking, you need to chop the cakes with a fork, so you can avoid air bubbles and the cake will be smoother.
• Honey dough is usually baked in the oven at 180, 2-3 minutes are enough for thin cakes. Therefore, it is important not to leave the oven, otherwise you can easily burn a cake.
• Cream for honey cakes can be used by anyone, but it should not be oily. Otherwise, the cakes will be poorly soaked, the dessert will remain dry.
Honey cakes take time to soak. Immediately after lubrication, the cakes will be dry. It is best to prepare dessert the day before or let stand in the refrigerator for at least 6 hours.
Plain honey cake in a water bath
The recipe for a classic honey cake in a water bath, which is familiar to many housewives. Cakes after impregnation become incredibly tender, juicy, melt in the mouth.
Ingredients
• a glass of sugar;
• 550 g flour;
• soda 1 tsp;
• salt;
• 3 eggs;
• 50 g of oil;
• 4 l. honey;
Cream: 500 g of oily sour cream a glass of powder.
Cooking
1. The eggs are broken. We immediately take a large pan or bowl, which we place in a water bath. Pour sugar, beat for about five minutes until foam, throw a pinch of salt.
2. Add honey, throw oil and soda. We put in a hot bath and start cooking. Stir constantly. The mass will increase in volume, so the bowl should be large.
3. Cook for a quarter of an hour until the color turns brown. Remove from heat.
4. Pour a glass of flour, mix quickly. Now you can add the rest of the flour, knead the dough.
5. Divide into 8 parts, roll the balls.
6. Take a rolling pin, roll thin cakes, cut. Baking on a baking sheet with parchment. Cakes are cooked quickly, so immediately roll out the second.
7. We collect the scraps, you can roll out a new cake. But part you just need to bake, cool and crumble. All cool.
8. We take thick sour cream so that the cream does not spread, mix with powder.
9. Lubricate all honey cakes. Top and sides of the cake should be sprinkled with crumbs from the scraps.
Honey cake in a Paris cocktail water bath
I am shocking a delicious, delicate version of a honey cake in a water bath with a very romantic and sophisticated name. Moreover, the dessert is relatively simple.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of flour;
• 3 l. honey;
• sugar 150 g;
• 7 g of soda;
• 180 g of water;
• 30 ml of oil.
For cream:
• 600 g of milk;
• words oil 0.25 kg;
• eggs - 3 pieces;
• vanilla;
• 100 g nuts;
• 200 g of sugar;
• 10 g flour.
Cooking
1. Put the container in a hot bath. Add honey, sugar, water. Bring to a boil. As soon as the bubbles go, remove from heat, add soda with flour. Quickly knead first with a spoon, then do it all with your hands. We divide all the resulting dough into 6 parts,
2. From each piece we roll a cake, bake on a baking sheet at 200 degrees to a golden color.
3. For the cream, beat the eggs, add sugar mixed with flour. After dissolution, we introduce milk, pour vanilla. Put the cream on the stove. Heat carefully so that the mass does not burn, constantly stir. As soon as it thickens. Take off.
4. Soften the oil, add to the cooled cream.
5. Lubricate cooled honey cake.
6. Fry nuts. You can dry in the oven before baking a honey cake or after it. We chop, sprinkle a Parisian cake, leave for 5 hours.
Honey cake in a water bath "Ginger"
Another famous honey cake recipe in a water bath. Ginger is a little different in taste. The cream is prepared from sour cream with butter and condensed milk, which can be white or boiled.
Ingredients
• 0.23 kg of sugar;
• 2 tsp soda;
• 2 eggs;
• flour 490 g;
• honey 3 l .;
• 100 g of oil;
For cream, we use 0.35 kg of the following ingredients: oil, condensed milk, sour cream.
Cooking
1. Throw butter and half sugar in a bowl. We put in a water bath and drown until dissolved. Add honey, warm for another five minutes, throw soda, quickly stir and remove. Let the mass stand for about five minutes.
2. During this time, you need to mix the remaining sugar with eggs, beat in a good foam.
3. Connect the eggs and the honey mixture, pour the flour, knead the dough.
4. We divide the mass into 6-8 parts, make cakes, bake until rosy. We shoot carefully, as they will turn out to be very soft. Cooling down.
5. While the cakes are cooling, you need to beat the softened butter well. To make it that way, just take the product out of the refrigerator in advance.
6. In the oil, add condensed milk at room temperature, and then sour cream. We do all this while whipping the cream.
7. We layered cakes. We leave the cake for soaking in the cold.
Honey cake in a chocolate water bath
A variation of chocolate honey cake. Which also requires warming in a water bath. Cakes are also obtained very soft, delicate, well soaked in cream. The cream is prepared with a simple custard in milk, but with the addition of dark chocolate.
Ingredients
• two eggs of the 1st category;
• 10 g of ordinary soda;
• sugar 180 grams;
• 0.05 kg of oil;
• 25 grams of cocoa;
• flour 0.4 kg;
• 2 tablespoons of honey.
Cream:
• milk half a liter;
• a pair of eggs;
• sugar 180 grams;
• 150 g of oil;
• one chocolate bar;
• flour 40 grams;
• nuts.
Cooking
1. Cocoa combine with flour. Mix oil with honey and sugar, put in a water bath. Beat eggs separately. Melt honey and oil, heat the mass until the color changes. Remove, put soda and wait a couple of minutes, no more. Now pour the eggs. And then pour the flour mixture, make a cool dough.
2. Divide into pieces, roll cakes on a flour dusted surface, cut, transfer to a baking sheet, bake.
3. Cook the cream. We mix sugar and flour, add milk and eggs, beat with a mixer and transfer to a plate, add crumbled chocolate. Cook over low heat until the chocolate melts and the cream thickens. Cool, add softened butter.
4. We coat the cooled cakes with chilled cream, sprinkle with nuts. In order to save, you can take their mixture with crumbs. Leave for six hours.
Honey cake in a water bath with vodka
An unusual recipe for a terrific cake. Vodka and honey are great friends; they will help to make a unique dessert. Cream ordinary sour cream, but you can take any other.
Ingredients
• 60 g of oil;
• 390 g of flour;
• 3 eggs;
• 5 g of soda;
• 2 tsp vodka;
• 2 tablespoons of honey;
• 160 g of sugar.
Cream:
• 400 g sour cream;
• 170 g of powder.
Cooking
1. Throw all the ingredients except the flour into the pan. Stir, send to a water bath, heat until intensified foaming and dissolution of all components.
2. Remove from heat, pour flour in 10 minutes, knead the dough.
3. Make ordinary thin crusts, dividing the dough into 6 pieces. Trimming the oven separately, browning harder.
4. Mix the ingredients of the cream.
5. We coat the cooled honey cakes.
6. Grind the scraps into crumbs, sprinkle with honey. Let the cake stand for several hours.
Honey cake in a water bath "Two creams"
A variant of a delicious cake with two types of cream. Cakes are baked ordinary thin, but slightly different technology. Scones are interlaced alternately with different fillings. It turns out unrealistically delicious!
Ingredients
• 3 eggs;
• 600 g of sugar;
• 150 ml of honey;
• 250 g of oil;
• 500 g sour cream;
• a can of condensed milk;
• 10 g of soda;
• 600 g of flour.
Cooking
1. Combine 300 g of sugar and eggs in a saucepan, add all honey and 50 g of butter. Pour soda. Sent to a water bath, warm and stir constantly. As soon as the mass foams well and becomes darker, pour a glass of flour, stir and remove. Add more flour, knead.
2. Divide the dough into small pieces. Roll out 6-7 cakes of them, bake.
3. Prepare a cream of sour cream and remaining sugar. In another bowl, beat butter with condensed milk. You can season both masses with vanilla.
4. Lubricate the bottom of the plate with sour cream, put the cake, spread on top. We coat the next cake with condensed milk. Alternate.
5. At the end, mix both types of cream, grease the top of the cake and cover the sides, cover all with chopped pieces, you can sprinkle with nuts.
Honey cake in a water bath - useful tips and tricks
• Do not try to replace natural honey with molasses or syrup, it will no longer be a honey cake and it’s not even about the aroma. Only real honey makes the cake tender, gives it a special structure and removes ductility.
• Collect honey cake not from cake. First you need to spread the cream on the dish. This technique will make all the cakes saturated.
• Dough for honey cake is not subject to storage, after freezing it loses taste, softness. If the cakes are no longer needed, but there is dough, just roll out large layers and bake, or make cookies. Pastries can be put into any dessert, for example, in chocolate sausage or in a Potato cake.
