Honey cake. Video recipe. Step by step.
May 31, 2025 at 2:24 am,
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A very tasty cake. But at the same time, it is also unruly. Its ideal version did not come to me so easily.
The first recipe, which seemed understandable from start to finish and I was confident that I would easily cope with it and the honey cake would be delicious, resulted in disappointment. The sponge cake came out too thick and dry, as I later concluded, the amount of flour specified in the recipe was too large. The cream from sour cream, sugar, with gelatin added was not so bad. But since the sponge cake was not moistened, because the recipe did not say so, then all the cream had soaked into the sponge cake, and was no longer visible or felt.
What followed was, I can't even count how many honey cakes I baked and tried different recipes, followed by my various improvements and attempts and again disappointment, that sometimes I thought that honey cake was probably not for me.
But then I found a honey cake recipe from the blog Zaigas Stūrītis, tried it and I liked it. I also liked that the cream is not made using condensed milk. However, this time too, I felt that the recipe needed improvements. And then the day came when I baked a honey cake according to the improved recipe. And yes, it was good, not just good, but excellent.
It was made excellent by my improvements and the honey I chose (Liepkalni, Ziedu medus). Before that, I had used different honeys, but with Liepkalni both a pleasant taste and a beautiful orange color. And most importantly, everyone knows that you can't eat this cake right away, it has to be allowed to infuse and only the next day. But I'll be honest, the next day is also too early, because you can still taste both the cream and the biscuit separately. The third day could be the best, but the fourth day is the best, because then the biscuit and cream flavors are mixed together and it's something, you can swallow your tongue how delicious it is.
P.S. Don't get me wrong, Liepkalni didn't ask me to promote them. I mention them and highlight them because the honey cake with their honey is very delicious.
Honey cake video recipe: