How to make a lazy honey cake?

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Lazy honey cake is an insanely tender, delicious and melt-in-your-mouth cake. Everyone can prepare such a dessert, because there are a lot of recipes that save time and get a gorgeous cake. If you are not a fan of standing at the stove and baking one cake after another, then this article is for you! We'll show you easy ways to make honey cake in minutes.

Lazy honey cake: recipe and cooking method

In order to please yourself and your loved ones with delicate and fragrant homemade cakes, you will need:

• butter - 100 grams;
• eggs - 2 pcs;
• granulated sugar - 150 grams;
• honey - two spoons;
• soda - 1 tsp;
• vanillin;
• flour - 200 grams.

Now let's move on to kneading the dough for the lazy honey cake:

1. Put the saucepan on medium heat, add honey, soda and wait until the mass foams.
2. In a separate bowl, beat two chicken eggs with sugar and vanilla.
3. Chop the butter into small piecespieces.
4. Pour the butter into the honey mixture, then the flour and mix thoroughly.
5. Pour the beaten egg mixture into the honey cake batter and mix again.
6. Lubricate the mold with sunflower oil and transfer our dough into it.
7. It is necessary to bake cakes at a temperature of 160 degrees for 20-30 minutes. The baking time depends on the power of your oven.

While our honey cake is baking, we proceed to prepare a gentle cream.

How to make honey cake cream?

Ingredients:

• high-fat sour cream - 500 grams;
• powdered sugar - 200 grams;
• vanillin;
• a handful of dried prunes.

In a deep bowl, beat sour cream, powdered sugar and vanilla with a mixer. The resulting mixture should be uniform in color and foamy. Now put our cream in two bowls. In one part, add the prunes cut into small pieces, and leave the second untouched. We remove two parts of the cream in the refrigerator, and proceed to the assembly of the cake.

Lazy honey cake decoration

After we have prepared the cream and the cakes for the honey cake have cooled down, you can proceed to the next step.

Cut the honey cake into two equal parts. We spread the cream with pieces of prunes on the hot cake and let it cool. Now we grease it with the remaining cream with prunes and cover with the second half. Coat the top and sides of this dessert with the second part of the cream, which contains only sour cream andsugar.

You can decorate a lazy honey cake, the recipe with a photo of which is above, in many ways. In this case, we will use chocolate chips and a handful of chopped nuts. If you have small pieces of honey cakes left, you can grind them in a blender and sprinkle dessert on top.

Before serving, the cake must be kept in the cold for 2-3 hours. In this case, honey cakes will be saturated with cream and become even softer and sweeter.

Preparing a cake in 30 minutes

If you unexpectedly promised to come guests, but there is nothing sweet on the table? It's not a problem! We will tell you how to quickly prepare an unusually tasty and delicate cake, the ingredients for which are in any refrigerator.

So, the products you will need in the cooking process:

• margarine - 100 grams;
• two tablespoons of honey;
• sour cream - 250 grams;
• wheat flour - 2 cups;
• sugar - 4 cups;
• a pinch of soda;
• two chicken eggs;
• whipped cream - 400 grams.

Let's break down the cooking method into the following steps:

1. Sift the flour in a deep bowl and add margarine cut into pieces.
2. Put a saucepan with honey and soda over medium heat, stir and add sugar.
3. After the resulting mass boiled and began to foam, remove it from the stove.
4. Now beat two chicken eggs, add sour cream and mix with honey mass.
5. Pour it into flour and mix thoroughly.
6. Now preheat the oven to 200degrees and grease the mold with sunflower oil.
7. Pour the dough into it and send it to the oven for 25 minutes.

After the appointed time, we check the honey cake for readiness and take it out of the oven. While it is still hot, cut it into 4 equal pieces and leave to cool.

Now let's move on to the quick preparation of the cream. In a separate bowl, mix the cream with the rest of the sugar, beat with a whisk or a mixer, and begin to grease the cakes.

Coat the cakes on all sides, press tightly against each other and sprinkle with crumbs. To make the cake more juicy and fragrant, send it to the refrigerator for several hours.

Dessert design options

The lazy honey cake is prepared very quickly and allows you to add your imagination when decorating the dessert. In some cases, the finished cake is decorated with chocolate chips, coconut flakes, or fresh fruit. If you chose to garnish with fruit, then it is best to use whole fruits, such as strawberries, raspberries or currants.

You can also decorate the honey cake with chopped walnuts, peanuts and almonds. This option is suitable for those who do not want to bother with decoration and prefer a classic honey cake. If you are preparing a cake for a child, you can add bright cartoon-shaped candles, inscription candles, and decorate the honey cake with colorful meringues, marshmallows and small marmalades.