Recipe for making honey cake in a frying pan with photo:
Choux pastry for honey cake. A recipe that has been tested by time and by me personally. It turns out tender, fragrant and amazingly elastic.
Preparing the dough in a water bath
Combine butter at room temperature with sugar and melt in a steamer.
add honey and let it melt, also steam (if the honey is frozen)
Remove the bowl from steam and add vodka and cognac
Break the eggs into the dough, making sure it doesn't cook.
Mix everything well with a mixer or spoon
Place the cup back on steam and add baking soda. Honey will extinguish it.
With constant stirring, heat the mixture for steam. It should increase 3 times in volume! It’s simply impossible not to see this.
Add flour and remove the cup of dough from steam
Add flour gradually, stir with a spoon,
and then knead the dough with your hands.
There are different recipes for this dough on the Internet and it is often advised to keep the dough under film for half an hour. But, in my opinion, many years of experience in preparing this magnificent cake are completely useless.
I always roll out the dough warm. It's very easy to do. It rolls out smoothly and does not stick. The surface and rolling pin, of course, must first be sprinkled with flour.
So, we form a sausage and divide it into equal parts 7-8-9.
Roll out the cakes to the diameter of the pan in which you will bake the cake. It is better to prick the dough of the rolled out cakes with a fork so that it does not swell during baking.
Heat a frying pan and dust it with flour. NO NEED TO LUBRICATE WITH OIL!
Place the crust on the frying pan
Close the lid and wait until it is baked on one side. On low heat.
Cakes are baked in a frying pan very quickly. Literally 2-3 minutes on each side, so don’t leave the stove.
When the cake is baked on one side, carefully turn it over and cover it again and bake until done.
The cakes are thin and baked perfectly. become fluffy when baked
Place the cakes on a flat surface and let them cool.
During this time, prepare a simple cream. Consisting of just two ingredients.
I always cook condensed milk in a jar myself. The recipe is here
You can just buy good dumplings in the store. I personally haven’t seen a good one - all boiled industrial condensed milk contains palm oil, at least that’s what is written in the product. And only the manufacturer knows how much there is. Therefore, I buy high-quality condensed milk and cook it in a jar. But this point is at your discretion.
. In a deep bowl, mix boiled condensed milk and sour cream.
Beat with a mixer.
Boiled condensed milk cream is ready.
Trim the cakes to give them the same shape. Usually cut along the plate. Cover all the cakes with cream.
And also coat the sides and top of the cake with it.
Leave for 2-3 hours at room temperature to soak.
If you trimmed the cakes to give them the same diameter, then you have scraps left that need to be put in a bag and rolled with a rolling pin.
Sprinkle the soaked honey cake with this crumb. You can chop any nuts (preferably walnuts) and sprinkle them on the top of the cake. It will be very tasty!
All! The cake is ready!
You can decorate the top with something else, but for me I like this classic look of the honey cake the most.
We pour tea and treat everyone to a delicious honey cake with condensed milk.
That's how easy it is to bake a classic cake in a pan!
Bon appetit!
Here are more recipes for honey cake in the oven:
Preparing the dough
“Honey” cake in a frying pan (the recipe with photos is presented in the article) is prepared in several stages. First you need to prepare the dough. To do this, mix and bring to complete homogeneity a mixture of honey, butter and sugar. To do this, you need to heat the mixture on the stove in a saucepan over low heat so that nothing sticks to the bottom. You can also heat the mixture in the microwave. In this case, it must be stirred every 30 seconds. Do not bring the mixture to a boil. It is enough for the butter and honey to completely melt, especially if it is candied.
The resulting syrup should be poured into a mixing container, add soda to it, and then mix thoroughly with a whisk so that the soda is distributed throughout the mass as evenly as possible. In this case, the syrup should lighten and slightly increase in volume, which is a consequence of the reaction of honey with soda. Thanks to this reaction, honey cakes become airy and fluffy. Let the syrup cool slightly.
Next, add sour cream (fat content is not important) and eggs according to the recipe. Stir until smooth. After this, flour is introduced in portions, which is pre-sifted.
Next, the dough for honey cakes is kneaded. First, you can help yourself with a whisk, and after the dough reaches sufficient density, housewives recommend using a wooden spoon. You can also simply knead with your hands. The result is a soft and slightly sticky dough.
Next, flour is generously poured onto the table, and the dough is laid out on top. It should be rolled in flour on all sides, formed into a thick “sausage” and divided into 8 parts. Carefully roll each piece of dough in flour and place on a wide plate. They should be covered with film on top. This must be done in order to avoid the appearance of a crust. Refrigerate the dough for 1-2 hours, as a result of which it will thicken slightly.
Preparation: stages
Melt the butter in a saucepan, add sugar and honey and sugar, place in a steam bath. The mixture is brought to a boil, but should not be allowed to boil. The pan is removed from the steam bath, eggs are added to the mixture, after which the mixture is thoroughly mixed. Next, put slaked soda in it and, gradually adding flour, knead the dough until the consistency of sour cream (thick). Heat a deep frying pan slightly and then lightly grease it with oil.
Pour 2-2.5 tbsp into the pan. l. dough and spread evenly over the entire surface. Bake until golden brown on both sides. According to reviews, the cakes bake quite quickly. At the same time, it is necessary to ensure that the cakes do not dry out. 8 cakes are baked in a frying pan with a diameter of 26 cm.
Next, prepare the cream. To do this, mix the ingredients according to the recipe, stir and put on low heat. The mass is heated to a boil, but it should not be allowed to boil. After thickening, the cream is cooled well. Grind the butter, gradually add it to the cream and beat well.
The cream is applied to each cake layer and sprinkled with ground walnuts on top. The surface of the cake is sprinkled with crumbs and nuts. The dessert is left to soak for 3 hours in the cold.
Assembling the cake
At this stage, you should assemble the baked honey cake. Approximately 3-4 tbsp are placed on the chilled cakes. l. cream, which is distributed over the surface. The cakes are stacked on top of each other. The sides and top of the cake should be slightly trimmed and decorated with crumbs.
So, we prepared honey cake at home in a frying pan. All that remains is to let the dessert soak well for several hours. The weight of the cake prepared from the presented amount of ingredients will be up to 1.5 kg. You can treat a large group of guests with this dessert.
Forming the cakes
After the dough has cooled, begin to form the cakes. The pieces are rolled into flat cakes (the thickness of the dough should be about 3 mm). It is necessary that the size of the cakes be slightly smaller than the size of the pan in which the cakes will be baked. For 8 cakes, use a frying pan with a diameter of 26 cm; for smaller ones, the dough should be divided into a larger number of parts.
Preparing sour cream
Cake in a frying pan “Honey” with sour cream, according to reviews, is very tasty. Sour cream for honey cake is a classic option. It can be prepared while the dough is chilling.
In a large bowl, combine all the necessary ingredients for the cream. Honey cake in a frying pan is prepared with cream from sour cream, sugar, vanilla sugar and lemon zest (to taste).
It is better to use sour cream for cream with a fat content of 30%. You can also use 20 percent, but in this case you need to add a thickener to the cream, or keep the sour cream suspended in gauze for several hours in order to get rid of excess whey.
Lightly whisk the cream until the sugar dissolves. The finished cream is sent to the refrigerator.
Recommendations
As experienced home confectioners assure, almost any cream is suitable for honey cake: custard, butter, sour cream. The only cream that does not penetrate cakes well is made from condensed milk. If you use cream from just condensed milk in a honey cake, the cakes will remain hard, so housewives advise combining condensed milk with some other (any) cream.
Having decorated the cake in accordance with your desires and capabilities (nuts, grated chocolate, crushed cookies, etc.), you should definitely put it in the cold and leave it there for several hours. Recipe authors recommend keeping the cake in the refrigerator overnight. Others claim that the best time to soak it is 24 hours. Although few people manage to endure such a long period of time and leave the cake untouched for a whole day. A soft, tasty and delicate cake will become an indispensable treat during a family tea party, as well as a real decoration for any holiday table.
With cream
At home, cakes for honey cake can be baked not only in the oven or slow cooker, but also in a frying pan. As a result, the workpieces still acquire a beautiful golden brown crust. In addition, due to the fact that the cream contains liquid cream, the dessert turns out soft and tasty.
However, the calorie content of the product will be quite high. There are approximately 296 kcal per 100 g serving.
Composition of ingredients
To make a fragrant dessert in a saucepan with cream yourself, you will need to prepare the following components:
- lemon – 150 g;
- butter – 100 g;
- honey – 50 g;
- milk – 150 ml;
- condensed milk – 260 g;
- flour – 400 g;
- baking powder – 10 g;
- sugar – 100 g;
- cream – 1 package;
- sour cream – 50 g;
- egg – 55 g.
Butter can be replaced with margarine, and baking powder with baking soda, but its quantity should not exceed 7 g. This volume of components yields approximately 12 servings.
Step-by-step cooking process
The detailed process of creating a cake based on honey and cream with your own hands is shown in the following paragraphs:
- Melt the butter and honey in an iron bowl.
- Then you need to beat the egg with sugar, add sour cream, stir and place the resulting mass in melted honey. You also need to add baking powder, flour and knead into a soft, plastic dough.
- The flour mixture must be divided into pieces of the same size, and then each one must be rolled out into a cake and baked in a dry saucepan on both sides.
- The cream must be mixed with milk and whisked thoroughly. Then gradually add condensed milk with lemon juice and continue beating until an airy cream forms.
At the end, each cake layer must be thoroughly coated with cream and the cake assembled. The product will need to soak in the refrigerator compartment for approximately 4 hours, and then serve.
How to serve a dish
Before serving, it is recommended to cover the dessert with melted chocolate. You can also sprinkle the surface of the treat with coconut shavings.
