My children just love sweets.What else do they need for happiness, if there is a sweet table. The answer is unambiguous - nothing! They are happy if we do not buy sweets, but do ourselves. At the same time, one should not detract from their active participation in the preparation process: whip something in a mixer, mix in a blender, separate the yolks, if necessary, etc. all this is quite within their power. Children are happy to provide all possible assistance in creating a delicious masterpiece, while trying all sorts of semi-finished products. Interestingly and tasty is the preparation of honey cake, its decoration and, of course, its eating. Let's talk about how to make a honey cake yourself.
The recipe for honey cake offered by me can be varied by fantasizing with ornaments made from mastic, while receiving my own work of art.
Let's start making honey cake withpurchase of necessary ingredients. First, you need to determine the stages of work, i.e. plan how to make a honey cake and what is needed for this in addition to desire and time. Our recipe for honey cake consists of three components: you need to make cakes, cream and mastic, and then beautifully arrange everything.
Let's start with the cake.It is clear, if the recipe for honey cake, then our cakes will be honey. First, beat the eggs (3pcs) with granulated sugar (150g.). this process is easily performed by children. During the whipping process, it is necessary to gradually introduce butter (150 grams) and honey (150 grams). At this stage, your help will be needed, but as soon as you add everything you need, the children can again independently continue the whipping process. And you at this time need to put out the soda, at your request, or lemon juice, or vinegar (1.5 tsp) and add it to the mix. After waiting a few more minutes, until everything is mixed up. We finish the whipping process, and send the resulting mixture to the water bath until a uniform golden hue (about 20 minutes). In the process of cooking it must be stirred periodically. Watch the mixture, you can also children, and you at this time, take care of the cream.
Separate three egg whites and mix them withgranulated sugar (200 grams). The resulting mixture must also be sent to a water bath. We will keep it on the stove only until all the sugar has dissolved. And at this time, beat the butter (250 grams). The mixture for the cream after the sand has dissolved, is removed from the plate and set for cooling. By this time, and the mixture for the cakes already have to get a golden color. Remove it from the plate, we mix vanillin and flour (3 tablespoons), and cool it. It is necessary to put it in the refrigerator for about half an hour.
Let's go back to preparing the cream.Proteins with sugar should be cooled by this time, so start whipping them, gradually adding whipped butter to the spoon. Once all the oil is in a uniformly whipped mixture, you can set the cream aside for a while.
Let's move on to preparing the mastic.We will need chewing marmalade (150 gr.). Put it in the container, add sl. oil (1.5 tbsp.) and water (2 tbsp.). Send the mixture for half a minute in a microwave to allow a little to melt the candy. We mix sugar powder (2 items) into the mixture, kneading it until it thickens. Spread the powder on the table (1.5 tablespoons) and put a mixture on it. We knead the dough from mastic and powder. As soon as it becomes soft as plasticine and starts to stick to your hands, divide the "dough" into four equal pieces. To each of the parts add its own color of food coloring and mix it for uniform coloring. We will decompose these multi-colored pieces on bags, tightly wrap them and put them in the refrigerator for half an hour.
The dough for the cakes can already be obtained fromrefrigerator and turn on the oven for warm-up. We divide the total mass into 6 parts and roll each cake. On the roll, we transfer the cake to the prepared baking tray (sprinkled with flour) and send it to the preheated oven for 5 minutes. Repeat the procedure with each cake. Lay them on top of each other and trim the edges.
We take the cooked cream and smear all the cakes. We apply it from above and on each side of our cake and accurately level. We send the cake to the refrigerator to freeze the cream and get the mastic.
We spread one color on the table with powder androll out into a circle. The diameter of the circle should be 5 cm larger than the diameter of the cake, and a thickness of at least 3 mm. We get our cake and transfer the layer of mastic to it, covering evenly the top and sides of the cake. Lightly squeeze the mastic in the shape of the cake, and cut off the excess. The rest of the multi-colored mastic goes to the execution of the decoration elements. Here everything depends on your imagination. You can make leaves, flowers, fungi or beasts.
It seems to me that the proposed recipe for honey cake is not only not complicated, but also allows you to quickly create your sweet and beautiful masterpiece.
