Honey cakes are one of the most common types of pastries found in home cooking. Among them, the ideal cake occupies a place of honor. The popularity of the dessert is easily explained. An affordable set of products makes a dish worthy of a restaurant.

Classic recipe

Ingredients Composition:

  • 2 packs of butter 200 g each (additionally 50 g margarine per dough will be required);
  • 3 eggs;
  • 1 tbsp. a spoon of honey;
  • 1 cup of sugar;
  • 1 can of condensed milk;
  • baking powder or vinegar slaked with vinegar;
  • some salt;
  • 2 cups of flour.

For the preparation of cakes, you can use margarine. However, only 100% butter is suitable for the cream without adding any vegetable substitutes.

Cooking method:

  1. A classic recipe that tells how to make a cake recommends using a steam bath. Slightly beaten eggs, sugar and butter should be steamed in it.
  2. Into the melted mass, add honey, salt to taste and extinguish with soda. Hold for a couple of about 10 minutes, constantly stirring the composition so that it does not burn.
  3. Introduce the indicated amount of flour into the composition and additionally warm for another 5 minutes.
  4. As soon as the temperature permits, divide the steam dough into 6 parts and put them on a surface sprinkled with flour. All six parts must be the same size.
  5. Form a cake from each part using a rolling pin and bake it in the oven for about 10 minutes at a temperature of 150 degrees.
  6. Beat condensed milk with butter. This will allow you to get a cream.
  7. Let the baked cakes cool down a bit and make them even edges, cutting off with a knife in the shape of a plate.
  8. Lubricate each layer with cream and leave at room temperature so that the cakes become softer and acquire a rich taste.
  9. Decorate the cake with chocolate, berries, coconut, or any other available ingredients.

With walnuts

The classic dessert recipe can be diversified by introducing new ingredients. An interesting option, well-established among housewives, is the ideal cake with walnuts.

Ingredients Composition:

  • 1 can of condensed milk (it must first be boiled);
  • 200 g peeled nuts;
  • 1 lemon;
  • 4 eggs;
  • vanillin on the tip of a knife;
  • 50 ml of rum;
  • 70 g of honey;
  • 230 g of flour;
  • a pinch of baking soda;
  • a package of butter made from cow cream;
  • 250 g of sugar.

Alcohol from the recipe can be excluded. Then the kids can eat the cake.

In order to reduce the cost of the cake, walnuts can be replaced with peanuts.

Cooking method:

  1. Using a mixer, combine the eggs with honey, sugar and alcohol into a single mass.
  2. Grind the nuts into crumbs and divide the two.
  3. Stir in half the egg crumbs and vanilla vanilla to the egg mixture.
  4. Sift the necessary amount of flour into the prepared dough in parts and mix well.
  5. Using a split mold, bake 3 cakes from the resulting composition. Previously, the baking dishes must be greased with oil and lined with baking paper. The approximate baking parameters are 20 minutes and 180 degrees.
  6. Beat boiled condensed milk separately with butter and a second serving of nuts. In addition, you can add blender milled lemon pulp.
  7. Align and cool cakes with plenty of grease with butter cream. They also need to cover the top and side of the cake.
  8. Garnish with cocoa or chocolate chips.

Cooking in Georgian

Ingredients Composition:

  • 1 incomplete glass of flour;
  • 3 eggs;
  • 3 teaspoons of cognac;
  • 150 g of powdered sugar and regular sugar;
  • 2 tbsp. tablespoons of boiling water;
  • baking powder;
  • 2 standard oil packs;
  • 8 tbsp. spoons of instant coffee;
  • 150 g ground nuts (ideally walnuts).

Cooking method:

  1. Dissolve half the norm of coffee in boiling water.
  2. Combine half the butter with sugar and gradually introduce the eggs into the mixture.
  3. Sift flour with baking powder into the composition.
  4. Pour coffee into the mixed components, pour half the nuts and knead the base of the future cake.
  5. From the resulting test, bake in the oven 2 identical cakes and give them time to cool.
  6. Soak cakes with cognac.
  7. Separately cook in 2 tbsp. tablespoons of water remaining coffee, then cool.
  8. Connect the oil with a mixer with powder and coffee. Add the remaining nuts.
  9. Coat the cooled cakes on all sides with cream and leave the cake for a couple of hours for impregnation.

Cake "Male ideal"

Sweet lovers are also found among the strong half of humanity. One of their favorite desserts is considered the ideal male cake.

Ingredients Composition:

  • 4 eggs;
  • packaging of vanilla sugar;
  • 4 tbsp. tablespoons of honey;
  • 3 cups flour;
  • 1 teaspoon of soda and table vinegar;
  • a handful of peeled nuts (in a budget option, you can use peanuts, plus 100 g for cream);
  • 1.5 cups of sugar (plus 2 teaspoons for impregnation);
  • 50 ml of brandy;
  • 1 can of condensed milk;
  • 1 small cup of very strong coffee;
  • 200 g butter;
  • 50 g of grated chocolate and nuts for decoration.

Cooking method:

  1. Combine the eggs with the sweet ingredients until they form a single structure.
  2. Sift flour there, add baking soda and nut crumbs. Knead the dough out of the mixed ingredients.
  3. Divide the resulting dough into two identical parts and bake each cake in the oven separately. Baking parameters are 40 minutes and 180 degrees.
  4. Check the readiness of the cake using the biscuit baking technology - with a long match or a toothpick.
  5. Finished and slightly cooled cakes are additionally cut into 2 more parts.
  6. Lightly heat the butter, pour the condensed milk to it and beat with a mixer. Add nut crumbs to the cream and put in the cold for 10 minutes.
  7. Mix coffee with cognac and soak the cake cakes.
  8. Each cooled cake from all sides should be generously greased with cream and put them on top of each other in an even pile.
  9. Decorate the top with grated chocolate and peanuts.
  10. Put the finished male ideal cake in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

Honey treat

Ingredients Composition:

  • 1 teaspoon slaked soda vinegar;
  • 3 cups flour (may require a little less);
  • 3 chicken eggs (plus one more for cream);
  • 1 tbsp. a spoon of honey;
  • 50 g margarine;
  • 200 g butter;
  • a small bag of vanilla sugar;
  • 250 g of sugar (in addition you will need the same amount of sugar for the cream);
  • ½ cup milk.

Cooking method:

  1. Dissolve steamed eggs, honey, margarine and sugar.
  2. Introduce soda and steam for 10 minutes.
  3. Add 2/3 flour and warm for another 5 minutes, not forgetting to periodically stir the composition;
  4. Remove from the water bath and immediately introduce the rest of the flour and knead the final composition of the dough.
  5. Roll out 6 cakes - the basis of the future cake. They can be any of the same shape (circle, square, triangle, etc.).
  6. Bake each cake separately until it is browned.
  7. Using a mixer, combine the eggs with sugar until crystals disappear. Pour in the specified milk rate and mix.
  8. Place on low heat and bring to bubble formation, stirring occasionally. Then cool.
  9. In a separate bowl, beat the softened butter and gradually add the cold egg mixture without stopping the mixer. If desired, vanillin can be added.
  10. Give cooled cakes an even shape. The scraps remaining after this process should not be discarded, but finely chopped.
  11. Lubricate each cake with cream on all sides and put in a pile. It is especially necessary to lubricate the sides of the product, otherwise the cake will be dry at the edges, because most of the cream inevitably flows into the central part.
  12. Decorate the top of the cake with the crumb remaining after trimming.

Step by step recipe from Andy Chef

Famous culinary gurus do not stop trying to make changes to the classic Ideal cake recipe. One of the results of this was Andy Chef's carrot cake recipe. Cooking dessert is better the day before, because the test takes time to insist.

Ingredients Composition:

  • 275 g of carrots;
  • 400 g of sugar;
  • 4 eggs;
  • 340 g flour;
  • 245 g of vegetable oil;
  • a pinch of soda;
  • 1 teaspoon nutmeg;
  • 80 g of nuts plus 50 g of sugar for the preparation of nut caramel;
  • 150 g of pear plus 50 g of sugar to create a cake filler;
  • 3 oranges plus 40 g sugar for zest filler;
  • 1.5 teaspoons of cinnamon.

Cooking method:

  1. Mix the dry ingredients of the cake (flour with soda and spices).
  2. Beat vegetable oil with sugar using a mixer. To improve the taste, it is recommended that half the norm of sugar be replaced with a brown variety. The whipping time should be about 3.5 minutes.
  3. Gradually introduce all the eggs.
  4. Add the prepared dry mixture and knead the composition.
  5. Separately, grate the carrots, squeeze it from excess juice and put into the dough.
  6. Fry raw nuts in a pan (if they were originally unroasted).
  7. Mix with sugar and melt on a slow fire. Keep them there until the nuts are covered with a shiny glaze. After that, you can put them on a silicone mold for solidification.
  8. Cut the peeled pear into small cubes, cover with sugar and boil a little over the fire. If necessary, you can add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of water or wine. Boil the fruit for a minute and lay in a colander.
  9. Remove the zest from the oranges with the help of a peeler. Cut the zest in strips and boil three times, draining each time the water. This will remove the bitterness. Squeeze juice from 1 orange, which must be poured into a zest mixed with sugar. Boil the mass for a couple of minutes and drain the unnecessary moisture through a sieve. After that, cut the straw into pieces 2 cm long.
  10. Add zest, pears and nuts to the carrot dough (leave a few grains for decoration). Immediately pour the mass into 3 identical forms and put in a heated oven.Baking parameters are 35 minutes - 1 hour, temperature 155 degrees. It should be noted that during baking the dough rises strongly, so it is impossible for the forms to be filled by more than half.
  11. Remove the finished cakes from the oven, let them brew for 5 minutes, and then wrap them in cling film. Remove overnight in the cold.
  12. After that, cut off the protruding tops from the cakes and grease the Ideal cake with classic cream on all sides. Lay cakes in a pile.
  13. Decorate with nuts and chocolate figures.

Cake "Female ideal" with cherries

Ingredients Composition:

  • 0.5 kg of cherries;
  • cognac;
  • 6 proteins and 12 yolks;
  • 200 g butter;
  • 200 g of cocoa;
  • 6 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar and flour;
  • ½ cup sugar + 1 tbsp. a spoonful of flour for cream;
  • ½ cup of milk;
  • a small pack of vanilla sugar.

Cooking method:

  1. At least one day before the start of cooking, clear the cherries and pour cognac. Cover the container and place in the cold.
  2. Beat warm squirrels with a pinch of salt until a thick foam. Add to them 3 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar.
  3. Separately, beat the yolks, and then continue to work as a mixer, introducing 3 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar.
  4. Combine the proteins and yolks with a silicone spatula, sift the flour with cocoa to them. Gently mix.
  5. Pour the dough into heat-resistant dishes covered with parchment. The diameter of the mold can be 0t 20 to 24 cm. The oven is ready.
  6. Beat the egg yolks for a cream with a spoonful of sugar and vanilla. Pour in warm milk, sift Art. a spoonful of flour and cocoa.
  7. Steam the cream until thickened. Let it become room temperature.
  8. Remove the biscuit, turn it over to the wire rack and slightly press down. Allow to cool.
  9. Beat butter with sugar until smooth and combine with custard.
  10. With a biscuit, cut the swollen top. Remove the pulp from the biscuit. Grind the resulting crumb.
  11. Send crumbs to the cream.
  12. Drain the liquid from the cherry and let stand in a sieve for drying. It is not necessary to pour it, it will be required for impregnation.
  13. Pour 3 tbsp of cherry cognac in 100 ml. tablespoons of sugar.
  14. Add cherries to the cream with biscuit.
  15. Soak a little cakes with alcohol. Transfer the filling to the bottom layer of biscuit. Cover with a creamy top and smooth the top of the cake with your hands.
  16. Put the cake in the cold for 4 - 5 hours. Decorate with chocolate fondant. The ideal female cake with cherry is ready.

There are many options for making the Ideal cake, and almost all of them radically differ in the components of the composition. However, one thing remains unchanged - the indescribable taste of custard in combination with biscuit.

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