honey cake

Oil, 3 tbsp flour, salt, sugar, honey put in a metal bowl or saucepan, mix and put in a water bath. Stir until sugar and honey dissolve.

 Beat eggs lightly with salt.

 Remove the bowl from the heat and stir the mixture into the eggs.

While stirring, add vodka to it (you can take cognac).

Put the bowl on the steam bath so that the water does not touch the bottom of the bowl. The water should not boil too much so that the dough does not burn.

Quench the soda with vinegar and add to the mixture while stirring.

Constantly stirring the dough, keep it in a steam bath for 10 to 30 minutes, depending on the color of the mixture you want to get - from pale beige to brownish honey. During the preparation of the batch in a water bath, the volume of the dough should increase.

Remove the batch from the heat and gradually add 3.5 tbsp. flour, sifting it through a sieve and stirring vigorously. The dough should be sticky.

Lightly sprinkle the table with flour, put the dough on it and, pouring the rest of the flour into it, knead it into a soft dough. Do not overdo it with flour, it is better to add it when rolling out the cakes.

Divide the dough into 8-9 portions, roll into balls, cover with cling film.

 Preheat oven to 200°C.

Cut out a stencil of a round or other shape from cardboard or thick paper, depending on the shape of the dishes on which the finished honey cake will be served on the table.

Roll out the ball into a cake with a thickness of 5 mm according to the chosen shape, attach a stencil and trim the cake with a knife. The scraps will then go to the powder.

On the rolled cake, make small punctures with a fork. Brush off excess flour from the cake.

Bake the cake until golden brown (~ 4-5 min.)

While the cake is baking, form the next one for baking.

Roll out the remaining dough scraps into a uniform cake and bake. Crumble the cake into powder.

Whip cream or sour cream with powdered sugar and vanilla until the powder is completely dissolved.

Lubricate the cakes with cream, forming a honey cake.

Crumble the cake for the powder into small crumbs and sprinkle the honey cake on top and sides.

Put the honey cake in the refrigerator for 1 day to infuse.