Ukrainian Honey Cake Recipes

CLASSIC HONEY CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Melt the honey, 50g of butter, 1 glass of sugar on the water bath. Continuously stir and make it sit melted for 5 mins until it is fully combined. Add the soda, and stir for one minute more.
• 2. Set aside the honey batter from the water bath and let it cool for 2-3 mins. Add 2 eggs, stir quickly with a whisk, and then add 350g of flour so far the eggs aren't curdled. Stir the pastry well and then put in into the freezer.
• 3. Put the pastry out of the freezer; divide it into 8 parts of the same size. Shape every piece in a ball and put them into freezer one more time. Heat oven to 200C.
• 4. Put one ball out of the freezer, roll it out on the flat work surface dusted with flour. It should be shaped as a thin circle.
• 5. Use the bottom of the round plate of spring form pan to trace a circle of pastry. Remove the trimmings and set them aside.
• 6. Line the baking tray with baking parchment, put the pastry on it, and round it with pastry trimmings. Bake for 3-5 mins.
• 7. Meanwhile the one layer is in oven, you should make the second one and prepare it to be baked. Make the 8 more layers. Put them aside and cool.
• 8. Combine half of a glass of milk, 1 egg, a glass of sugar, and 30g of flour. Bring the remaining milk to the boil. Pour the warm milk into the egg batter, and stir it well. Cook the cream until it is dense.
• 9. Add the vanilla sugar to the cream, stir and set aside from heat. Add 50g of soften butter, and whip the cream with whisk. Cool the cream.
• 10. Poke the pastry layers with forks therefore they will soak in the cream better. Spread the cream (2-3 tablespoon for every layer) over the pastry layers, and put them one upon one. Generously coat the top and every side of the cake with cream.
• 11. Crumble the pastry trimmings up. Sprinkle the top and sides of the honey cake with them.
• 12. Put the honey cake in a cool place for a night (at least 8 hrs).

UKRAINIAN HONEY CAKE

Steps:

• Cream the butter and sugar.
• Add the egg yolks, one at a time.
• Beat until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the honey.
• Sift the flour with the other dry ingredients; add in alternately with the sour cream.
• Stir in the walnuts.
• Beat the egg whites until stiff and fold them into the batter.
• Bake in a greased tube pan at 325 degrees F for 50 to 55 minutes, or until done.
• Lower the heat to 300 degrees F in the final stages of baking to prevent the honey from burning.

UKRAINIAN HONEY CAKE

Steps:

• Heat honey to a boil.
• Cool honey to room temperature.
• Beat butter and 1/2 of the sugar until light.
• Then beat in egg yolks one at a time.
• Add honey, then stir in sifted dry ingredients,alternately with the wet ingredients.
• Beat the egg whites until fluffy, and fold in the remaining sugar, beat until stiff.
• Fold egg white mixture into honey mixture.
• Spread evenly in greased deep round 9-inch spring-form pan.
• Baked at 325F for 50 minutes. Then lower the heat to 300F and bake for another 25 minutes.

UKRAINIAN HONEY CAKE

Steps:

• Bring honey to a boil, then cool it.
• Sift flour with baking soda and powder, cinnamon, and salt.
• Cream butter with sugar.
• Add the honey.
• Beat the egg yolks and add to the honey.
• Add the flour mix alternatively with the coffee mixture.
• Stir in the nuts.
• Beat egg whites stiff and fold into the batter.
• Pour into greased bread mold.
• Bake 325F 50-60 minutes.
• Unmold and cool well.

UKRAINIAN CHRISTMAS HONEY CAKE MEDIVNYK

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to 300-F degrees.
• Generously grease and lightly flour two loaf pans, and set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, prepare the batter: Cream the butter and sugar together with a hand-held mixer until light and creamy.
• Add egg yolks, one at a time, and continue to beat the mixture after each additional yolk is incorporated.
• Add the honey and sour cream and mix again.
• Beat the eggs whites in a small mixing bowl until stiff peaks form.
• Sift together the cake flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.
• Fold the flour mixture and the egg whites, ALTERNATING EACH MIXTURE (flour and then egg whites), into the cake batter.
• Fold in the raisins and walnuts.
• Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pans.
• Bake for 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
• Remove the cakes from the pans and place on a wire rack to cool.
• Slice and serve slightly warm.
• Serves 10 to 12.

UKRAINIAN HONEY CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 F, and butter and flour a 7" cake pan.
• Beat honey until frothy. Add eggs, flour and baking powder.
• Pour into prepared cake pan. Bake for 15 minutes and check the cake. When done, it will shrink slightly from the pan. Continue baking for 5 minutes if it isn't ready yet. (continue if it needs more time).
• Turn it out of the pan while still hot, and let cool on a rack. Store in an airtight container for a day before serving.