In order to please your loved ones with a delicious dessert, you don’t have to buy store-bought confectionery. After all, dishes that were prepared with one’s own hands have a special taste. For example, for such a special event as a birthday, you can easily bake a honey cake. In addition, its preparation requires only simple and inexpensive products.

Honey cake “Bee”

Required ingredients for the dough:

• any type of honey - three large spoons;
• sugar - ¼ part of a glass;
• butter - 90 grams;
• chicken egg - three pieces;
• salt - on the tip of a teaspoon;
• baking soda (quench with vinegar) - 1/3 teaspoon;
• premium flour - four cups.

Method for preparing dough for honey cake:

In order to bake a homemade honey cake, first of all you need to knead the dough, because it should be kept in the refrigerator for several hours. To prepare it, you need to mix granulated sugar, honey, butter and a pinch of salt in one container. To ensure that all the ingredients melt, it is advisable to heat them in a water bath. After this, you should thoroughly beat the eggs and then mix them with the main honey mass. You also need to add baking soda, quenched with vinegar, and add sifted flour. The dough should not be too thick, but not runny either. It is desirable that it slightly sticks to your hands. Then it is recommended to place it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.

Ingredients for sour cream:

• sugar - one small glass;
• sour cream 30% fat - 500 milliliters;
• vanillin - one sachet.

Method for preparing honey cake cream:

As a rule, honey cake is prepared using sour cream and a small amount of sugar. After all, the dough of such a dessert already has a rather sugary taste. To prepare the cream, simply beat sour cream with granulated sugar and vanilla. However, this must be done after all the cakes are ready.

How to bake a honey cake: step-by-step instructions for preparing cake layers

1. Take the dough out of the refrigerator.
2. We form it into a sausage with a diameter of 6-7 centimeters.
3. Cut the dough into pieces 2 centimeters thick.
4. Take the pieces one by one and roll them out into circles 0.5 centimeters thick.
5. We do not grease the pan with oil, but simply sprinkle its surface with a small amount of flour.
6. One cake bakes for about 15-20 minutes.
7. The uneven edges of the finished cake must be trimmed using a regular plate.
8. When all the cakes are ready, you can safely start shaping the cake.

Honey cake: applying cream to cake layers

The cakes should be coated generously with cream, because they should be completely saturated with it. It is recommended to add about four to five tablespoons of whipped sour cream to one honey preparation.

Cake decoration

In order to give the cake a beautiful appearance, the cut and dried edges of the cakes should be crushed in a mortar. The resulting mixture should be sprinkled over the entire dessert. It is advisable to keep the cake in the refrigerator for 12 hours so that it is well soaked in cream.

Honey cake "Bee" is the favorite delicacy of our childhood. Memories of him make your soul feel warm and comfortable. The delicious dessert itself is of Russian origin. However, they also love to cook it abroad.

In this article we will share with you a step-by-step recipe for honey cake “Bee”. Photos of the finished product and the secrets of delicious shortcrust pastry are attached. We wish you pleasant reading!

Description of dessert

A dessert with a summer name is an unusual alternative to the classic honey cake. What do we associate with honey? Of course bees. The dessert looks like a honeycomb decorated with homemade bees. It looks very original and beautiful. It will take you approximately two hours to cook. The base itself consists of shortcrust pastry.

To create the base of the honey cake “Bee” you will need to buy the following products:

1. Sifted flour 750 grams.
2. Five tablespoons of light honey.
3. Chicken eggs 3 pieces.
4. Butter 100 grams.
5. A pinch of baking soda.
6. Sugar 250 grams.

Cream ingredients

To prepare a tender and juicy cream, you need to stock up on the following ingredients:

1. Thick sour cream with fat content from 25% 250 grams.
2. Boiled condensed milk.
3. A tablespoon of light honey.
4. A packet of gelatin (7 grams).
5. Banana (optional).
6. Cream 180 grams.

Preparing shortbread

As mentioned above, the base for the cake will be shortbread. Many housewives know that such dough is very difficult to prepare. There are many nuances that need to be taken into account in the process. We provide you with a step-by-step recipe for honey cake “Bee” with a photo of the finished result:

1. First of all, you need to add baking soda to the honey, then heat this mixture over low heat. The honey should take on a dark shade.
2. Then you should melt the butter in a water bath. Add sugar and chicken eggs to it. The egg-cream mixture must be beaten well using a whisk or mixer.
3. Afterwards you should add heated honey to this mixture. Mix the entire consistency well.
4. Next, you need to gradually add the sifted flour to the honey mass. You should get a homogeneous dough, similar to very thick sour cream.
5. Then you should line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper and grease it with butter.
6. Then distribute all the dough evenly along the bottom of the mold. The product should be baked for approximately 30-40 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
7. The finished cake should be cut into several small pieces.

How to prepare cream for the Honey cake?

Lapulka's honey cake "Pchelka" is very tender and tasty. You can prepare both the classic version and the original one - with the addition of various fruits, berries and even chocolate. In addition, for our dessert you can make caramel, chocolate or semolina cream. It all depends on your wishes and preferences. Below you will find a recipe for honey cake “Bee” with a photo.

1. First you need to add boiled condensed milk, whipped cream (100 grams), and a spoonful of honey to the thick sour cream. Mix this mass thoroughly.
2. Then you need to peel the banana, chop it and add it to the mixture.
3. The finished cream should be divided into two equal parts. We will use one to soak the cakes, and the other to decorate the cake.
4. The first portion should be placed in the refrigerator for a couple of minutes.

Forming a cake

After you have finished preparing the cream and cake layers, you can begin to shape and decorate the cake. We provide the recipe for honey cake "Bee":

1. First, you need to coat each cake well with buttercream. Then send the cake to a cool place for a couple of hours so that it is well soaked.
2. Next, you can move on to working on the cake decoration. First of all, add gelatin to the remaining cream. Leave the mixture for a while. The gelatin granules should swell.
3. Then you need to put the mixture on low heat so that the grains completely dissolve in it.
4. Now you need to add heated cream to the second part of the buttercream and mix everything thoroughly.
5. Then spread the cream over the top layer of the cake. And finally, you should make a honeycomb using a bubble bag, pressing it into the cream.
6. Then we need to put our dessert in the refrigerator for half an hour.

Cake decorations

What honey cake would be complete without bees? How can they be made? To prepare the decorations we will need two bars of white and milk chocolate.

1. First you need to melt half a bar of milk chocolate and 1/3 of white.
2. Then lay down special baking paper. Melted milk chocolate should be poured into a pastry bag and used to form the bodies of our bees. Give the chocolate some time to harden.
3. After using white chocolate you need to draw stripes at the same distance and eyes.
4. Wings for bees can be made from white chocolate slabs using a special pastry knife for decorating cakes, or from almonds.
5. You need to randomly place the bees around the cake and sprinkle chocolate chips on top.

Honey cake "Bee" is ready. We wish you bon appetit!

How to prepare shortbread dough correctly?

The shortbread dough should be homogeneous, crumbly, but still hold its shape. It is very difficult to achieve an ideal result, but it is possible. We will tell you three main ways to prepare shortcrust pastry:

1. Chopped. For it you will need: 400 grams of sifted flour, 250 grams of butter, a pinch of table salt, 100 milliliters of warm water. First you need to randomly chop the butter and then put it in the freezer for twenty minutes. Then add a pinch of table salt and pieces of cold butter to the sifted flour. Next, you need to quickly chop the dough using a large knife. You should end up with a crushed mass, into which you should gradually pour warm water and knead. Afterwards the dough must be refrigerated for 10-20 minutes.
2. Cottage cheese. If chopped is more suitable for pies, then tender, curd can be used as a base for cakes. It requires: fresh cottage cheese - 150 grams, butter - 150 grams, sifted flour - 250 grams, a pinch of food and table salt. First you need to sift the cottage cheese through a special sieve. Next, grate the butter and then add it to the cottage cheese. Pour sifted flour into the creamy-curd mixture and add a pinch of salt and soda. Afterwards, knead the dough well and place it in a cool place for an hour, wrapping it in cling film.
3. For the lazy. If you don't want to spend a lot of time preparing shortcrust pastry, then there is a simple method just for you. This mass is ideal for our “Bee” cake. For it you should stock up on the following ingredients: sifted flour - 300 grams, butter - 150 grams, one chicken egg, powdered sugar - 150 grams. First of all, you need to add powdered sugar to the bowl, then grate the butter there, preferably on a fine grater. Add flour to it. Mix the whole mass well with a spoon or food processor. Be sure to wrap the dough in cling film and put it in the freezer for an hour.

Shortbread dough is very finicky. All ingredients must be added strictly according to the recipe. If you overdo it with butter or flour, you may end up either very crumbly or too dense. However, you will have to master the recipe, because this particular type of dough is ideal for making “Bee” honey cake.

• Heat, constantly stirring the mixture of honey and soda in a saucepan until dark. Mix sugar and eggs with melted and cooled butter, beat thoroughly, add flour (a glass), mix with a mixer, add the rest of the flour and finally mix until a homogeneous dough is obtained, like for pancakes.
• Pour the dough into a mold, pre-line the bottom with parchment, cook at 180 degrees for about half an hour. Cut the baked cake lengthwise into several pieces. Beat boiled condensed milk, sour cream, honey and cream into a homogeneous mass, divide the resulting cream into two parts. When the cakes have cooled, coat them with cream, stack them and put them in the refrigerator.
• For the top of the cake, prepare cream with gelatin. Soak gelatin in cold cream, let it swell, heat, stirring until completely dissolved, let cool slightly, mix with the remaining part of the cream. Immediately pour over the top of the cake and even out the layer with a spatula. Using a film with bubbles, “draw” a honeycomb, gently pressing it into the cream. Sprinkle the sides of the cake with crumbs from the cut edges of the cakes, put it in the refrigerator for a third of an hour to allow the honeycomb to harden.
• To sculpt the bees, prepare a mass of dark and white chocolate melted in separate containers in a water bath, fill the pound with it, draw the body of the bees on parchment paper with dark chocolate, let it harden well, draw eyes and stripes on the body with white chocolate, make wings from almond petals. The decorated homemade “Bee” honey cake should be kept in the refrigerator.