Recipes

28.06.18

Honey Cake

Looking for an afternoon tea or dessert showstopper? Look no further than this beautiful Russian-style Honey Cake. Simply stunning.

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Course:Dessert
Calories:11237

Ingredients

Cookie Layers
  • 170 g Bee Bold Red Stringy Bark Honey
  • 100 g castor sugar
  • 115 g unsalted butter
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 3 large eggs
  • ¼ tsp vanilla bean paste
  • 450 g plain flour
Honey Cream
  • ⅔ cup Bee Bold Red Stringy Bark Honey
  • 2 cups unsalted butter (room temperature)
  • 8 cups icing sugar

Instructions

Cookie Layers
  • In a medium-sized saucepan over a medium heat add honey, sugar and butter; bring to a simmer.
  • Allow to cook for 3-4 minutes. The colour should become slightly darker.
  • Remove from heat and whisk in baking soda then allow to stand for 3-4 minutes to cool slightly.
  • In a small bowl crack 3 eggs and whisk gently with a fork.
  • Now whisk the honey, sugar and butter mixture vigorously in the saucepan while slowing pouring in eggs. Continue mixing until well combined.
  • Using a wooden spoon or spatula, stir in the salt and vanilla paste. Continue to stir and gradually add the flour. Continue working the mixture in the saucepan until a wet dough is formed.
  • Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured clean work surface, form into a log and cut into eight even pieces.
  • Roll out each piece of dough on individual sheets of baking paper (approx. 20cm square), shaping your dough to slighter larger than 20cm diameter circles. Now use a 20cm cake tin base to trim them to exact circles.
  • Bake each cookie layer on its individual baking paper sheet for 6-7 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool. Continue baking until all layers are completed. Allow all layers to cool completely.
Honey Cream
  • In an electric mixer with paddle attachment and large mixing bowl cream together butter and honey for 2 minutes.
  • On a low speed add 2 cups of icing sugar. Beat until smooth and creamy.
  • Gradually add the remaining icing sugar, one cup at a time, beating well after each addition.
  • Continue to beat for a further 6-8 minutes until icing is thick, smooth and glossy.
Assemble
  • Apply an even thin layer of honey cream to each individual baked cookie layer, using a spatula. Continue to coat all 8 layers.
  • Using a closed 20cm cake tin, place each layer into the cake tin, applying firm pressure when adding each layer. This will build the height of the cake evenly.
  • Unclip and remove the cake tin rim and complete the cake design by finishing the top and sides, using the remaining honey butter cream.
  • Garnish the cake top with a ring of salade de fleurs and small pieces of honeycomb.

Notes

We teamed up with the great folks at Essentials Magazine to create this series of honey-inspired recipes for the Summer 2018 issue.
 

Nutrition

Calories: 11237 kcalCarbohydrates: 1730 gProtein: 69 gFat: 478 gSaturated Fat: 297 gTrans Fat: 19 gCholesterol: 1714 mgSodium: 1389 mgPotassium: 1027 mgFiber: 13 gSugar: 1367 gVitamin A: 14932 IUVitamin C: 2 mgCalcium: 312 mgIron: 26 mg
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