Interesting that you got a runny filling with 19%. I found if I flipped them over when they were baked, I could peel the paper off very carefully. I was using Ferris farms pastry flour and I think I ended up needing around 8-9 cups of flour to get the dough to the right consistency which was frustrating. My mother requested a honey cake for her 65th birthday after trying some at a Latvian market. 4. 1. I feel like that’s necessary for this. Thanks for sharing your great recipes! I have been obsessed with Germany for almost as long as I can remember. After expending so much mental energy on the layers, I decided the simplest filling option — sweetened sour cream — was the most sane place to start. My mom’s recipes for everything (including Medovik) are her variation that she knows by sight, so she has been completely of no help to me in my new quest to teach myself the foods I grew up on. wish me luck! Thank you! Have you considered making a thicker cream so it won’t roll down the sides? Make cookie/cake dough: In a medium-sized saucepan, combine the sugar, honey and butter over medium heat. I am planning to make this for Rosh Hashanah this year. Mine turned out ugly, but man it was tasty! Yours looks delicious. My friends mother who is a master of this cake recommended to bake thicker cookies and then slice them in two, therefore the surface is more porous and there is better absorption of the filling. Is there any reason I couldn’t scrape the batter into the stand mixer bowl and beat the mixture in the stand mixer while adding the eggs? The filling was essentially cream mixed with sugar and honey. Guys, if you’re ever looking for a sign that a recipe is going to be a doozy to unpack, definitely aim for a dish that nobody even agrees on the name of.*. DO THIS! Whenever I need a recipe I check here first and I’ve never been disappointed. Keep adding the unbaked cookie trimmings onto one piece of parchment paper. We are in the UK – and to my knowledge no-one does this any longer. i made two cakes from scratch with swan's down cake flour. You published a recipe of a cake that has falling icing and melting sides? recently made an attempt at this myself after falling in love with a version at a cafe in london (cafe rosa in the finchley neighborhood), that was sourced from a lebanese bakery, i think the lithuanian barista said, using a recipe that a russian friend found in english that looked about right. Our signature Lady M Mille Crêpes made frozen, the coolest souvenir in town to your flights. Here is a little history behind the "Stack Cake". I tried to dribble a little of the hot liquid into the eggs and it just balled up and wouldn’t incorporate. If using a regular cake pan, line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper and grease again. I also have lots of the mixture left over. When I added the baking soda the whole consistency of the butter sugar and honey mix fluffed up and changed. Made 8″ rounds (after near tears when making the first 9″ round, which I realized after was actually 10″! just use a smaller cutter? I made this a few years back and could not get it to the thin layers you did. I can tell from my personal experience with honey cakes that chilling sour cream after sugar has been added (in my version it’s sugar and not sweetened condensed milk) actually helps to make things more manageable. If you try this please let us know how it turned out. I was able to cover the cake very easily yesterday. And not all brands will whip. The “helping” by eating uneven edges was my favorite as a child too! It looked amazing in the end, first of all, having been as disastrous in preparation as the pictures/recipe had suggested it would. "The Lady" is the second episode of Season 6 of The Amazing World of Gumball. Whisking the honey mixture vigorously in the pot the whole time, drizzle the thinnest stream (think: 1/2 teaspoon at a time, that slowly) of the eggs into the honey mixture. i made this recipe with the following changes: i added the zest of 1 lemon to the frosting; i added 1/4t.freshly ground nutmeg to the dough; and i subbed white whole wheat flour for all the white flour in the recipe. Also, this looks amazing and perfect and I am INCREDIBLY impressed. First time they came out pale and terrible and like homemade matzoh. Creme fraiche would be closer in thickness to US sour cream. I finally, weeks later, had to make all the noise stop. The exact same thing crossed my mind! I had to add at least a third cup of additional flour when doing it this way, and it probably could’ve used a bit more, too – the dough was incredibly hard to work with when warm. That’s it. Her variant was to alternate layers with a fruit filling, usually a homemade jelly of either apricot or pineapple. I got about 7″ – 8 layers. Under the law of Hong Kong, intoxicating liquor must not be sold or supplied to a minor (under 18) in the course of business. Are you supposed to add flour to the rolling pin? Exactly identically definitely. I thought you had not gotten my request for Medovik. Smetannik is any sponge cake that uses whipped sour cream (smetana) as a cream. The water boiled out and the can had exploded, leaving the walls and ceiling of his kitchen covered with burnt caramel. does the dough whisk work well once the flour is added? This recipe sounds wonderful and you, I don’t even know who you are yet but, are Inspiring. Is it a coincidence that you posted this in the middle of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur?? It’s an Icelandic cardamom-flavoured cake with prune filling between the layers (sometimes rhubarb gets used when prunes aren’t available). Ohhhh, I love them. Saving us all from the humdrum. It’s a popular homemade classic called ‘chocolate ripple cake’. Thanks Steve! I actually considered including this exact tip from an IG comment but didn’t try it either time I made it. I should have said more at the end, this post had run so much longer than most and I wanted a quick exit: WE LOVED THIS CAKE. 2. I add plain raisins because I always seem to be out of golden raisins. Making it was also fun, you should show all the steps of the heating the sugar to adding the eggs, I almost threw it out because of the drastic color change. My filling was pretty thick and didn’t ooze out of the layers at all, so I covered the top and sides with whipped cream. Years ago a friend, who was from Baku, Azerbijan, brought this cake to work. Well thank goodness for your readers! I just wanted to comment on this post, though, bc the timing was too perfect not to say something. I did not have enough filling to add 3/4 c between layers. This was my instinct as well. I did too and it worked well and allowed me to add the egg very slowly. Thanks, Dot. I don’t think heavily sweetened sour cream will turn as fast as non-sweetened but it’s definitely the kind of dairy that needs to be kept cold. * The dough too sticky with 3 cups flour — it didn’t look like the photos and couldn’t be cut into 8 without sticking to everything. Plus, if it’s delicious, who cares if the middle steps are a little messy. He’s used to being the guinea pig for birthday cakes. – lightly flouring the outside of the dough (like you’d flour a mochi ball) helped with the sticking even further And mine isn’t the lovely dark brown of yours. My suspicion is that eastern European sour cream is thicker and a different texture. i made my own icing. Either or to suit your pallet! If I were to prepare it again (which I won’t), I would endorse an earlier suggestion to add condensed milk cautiously to sour cream to create the right consistency, rather than automatically using the exact amounts in the recipe. I have made this delicious and wonderful cake twice and have enjoyed it each time! I’ve only had Russian honey cake once (from an Eastern European store in the Seattle Area) and it did not have a dairy-based filling/frosting, so I can’t comment on how either would turn out, but I suspect it would have a bit of a different taste if made with smetana, which is really an excuse for more experiments! (also, I followed the link to your Lasagna Bolognese with besciamella, and I’m totally with you on the ricotta does not belong in lasagna. Trust me, if you do not do this, you will regret it. My friend trims the edges for family treats. The real McCoy will have to wait until the baby is potty-trained. My recipe calls for caramelisation. The layers are less cakey, as in medivnyk, and more pretzel-y, more bread-y, less sweet, and not at all fluffy. Thanks! Im Czech and remember estung ir tbete but tbe origin is from Ukraine and it has many versions.And yes,bakeries are lying,its nit a czech specialty at all:) but l still make bcs its sooo good. P.S. This Chocolate Dulce de Leche Cake is a new fave. I’m thinking of making this cake sometime this month as I’ve had it at a Russian deli shop in the past and loved it. Creme Fraiche is still a soured cream. I’ll take the leftovers in to work tomorrow to get the final word from my Russian coworker. Everyone loved this cake and I would make it again! Thanks for the response! The cake you made is Medovik (one version of it), Smetannik has no honey in it, and the dough is made with sour cream, hence the name. It was the perfect thing to take up a good chunk of time! Next time I will try starting with 1/4 of honey/sugar/butter. Stir in the salt and vanilla and 3 cups (390 grams) of the flour with a spoon. 7. My layers shifted a bit overnight so they look sloppy.next time I’ll check them twice while they set. What if I layer the cake with that instead? Time to use it up, however. It’s a take-out place that serves Georgian food. :-). toasted, finely chopped walnuts on the filling of each layer, since walnuts + honey + yogurt (which is almost sour cream) = awesome! yes thats true.. With this method the dough is not sticky at all once it cools down and there is no need to reheat it. But the cookbooks and the websites and whoever usually cook the walnut filling. I was watching Chef’s Table, season 3, episode 2, “Vladamir Mukhin” who is the head chef at a Moscow restaurant called, “The White Rabbit” and there is a cake in the episode that is referred to as honey cake and it look so different from what I know as honey cake, and I thought I would never find the recipe, but yours looks exactly right! Deb I can only imagine how much time you devote to your cooking adventures. I have been craving honey cake for weeks, and I’m thinking about making this after work today, but I would want to serve it at brunch tomorrow (noon-ish). Help! 12 ... wedding cake and switch ... and prove his worth by either paying a "ransom" for his lady… I have a soft spot for cakes with a gazillion skinny layers. Made this yesterday. Cut or tear one of your used pieces of parchment paper into strips and tuck them all around the underside of the cake to protect your cake plate. This cake! Thank you for the recipe! But sadly, it was ultimately a failure. Anyone in Miami want to make it and invite me over? This is because the icing was just too runny, and simply never thickened as promised, even after a night in the fridge. I used tortiala press too it was really easy with it. Sounds amazing! My dough was so sticky, I couldn’t roll it out. I had the sweetest Russian neighbor bring me one of these as a gift when I had my last baby nine years ago. I didn’t want to assume most people do, as it will need to be taller than standard size. Then I saw your recipe, and it seemed less intimidating, for some reason. I scrolled through your comments below, and while users made some reference to eggs, I didn’t see your respond to anything about this particular question. Because cakes were so expensive back in the days of old. I made this cake for a celebration and the frosting was too runny. Not sure if I’m allowed to post a link here, but here’s the specific one I used: http://www.gaylea.com/products/sour-cream/272-retail-products-sour_cream-gold-premium-sour-cream. 1. It is called Milchmädchentorte, because in Germany sweetened condensed milk has that name. But it obviously is working well for lots of people, it just carried a risk warning in my opinion. Such cultural diversity, and traditional ownership of names, ingredients and methods. Friendly FYI, the PDF to print this is a little messed up. Medovnik is my all-time favorite cake and I’ve been bending over backwards trying to find the right recipe to make for my birthday this year (because I’m a control freak who makes her own birthday cake). Everyone who says the baking soda step feels like mad science is right–and it’s an absolute BLAST. Yes, it tasted very good, thank you! I make them for most of my breads. :). It is not russian cake! How are people managing to stencil? Nah, that would be ridiculous. And please be sure – it’s Medovik ). Thank you so very much for the work, time, and guessing that you put into this. Someone suggested assembling it in a spring form pan lined with plastic wrap to force the filling to not be a jerk and run all over. It sounds crazy but it works — on the sides too. do you think it would be possible to make mini versions of the cake? It is similar to the Russian Honey Cake in that it has 8 layers and after setting in the fridge for a couple of days it comes out like a cake(well, at least that is my hope seeing as I literally just put the icing on the cookies and have left it in the fridge). I did neither of these things however and it still turned out okay. The consensus among people who were familiar with the dish was that the flavor was just right, but the texture was slightly different than they remembered (but better- less dry). My hostess made this for my farewell party in 1995 after I had been in Ukraine for a visit. Filling as Deb said except I added ~16 oz chopped walnuts because of the comments here. The cake is a little dry, possibly because I used fat-free condensed milk (see: curbside pickup). I love that you mentioned the dobos torte as well in this post, as that is another recipe of yours that I’ve used, and love. I made the layers and it is frosted – and I just realized that I think I forgot the baking soda. Deb, I just made your red wine velvet cake for my mom’s birthday. All Russian cakes call for baking soda mixed with vinegar – I think the idea is that you release carbon dioxide when mixing soda and that will be your leavening. :). Made it in the UK, thought the same re relative runniness of sour cream here compared to the US. I guess he missed the sour cream going in…. butter, eggs -- >> cake mix. I’m assuming you’re in the US Wenderella, but you’re the first person to describe that level of thickness to your filling. She called it Medovnik and made it with a cream and plum jam filling. It wasn’t clear to me at first, but you actually bake the cookie/cake layers right on the paper! Just make sure you get them filled and frosted a day before you want to slice in. They’re slightly bendier than a cookie so I don’t think they’d be very enjoyable eaten plain or as a cookie. Eat a slice and die, basically. I ended up making more filling, as there was none left to coat the exterior after putting 3/4 cup per layer. I’d post the recipe here, but it’s against the rules! Well funny enough, my grandma-in-law called a few days later and said she wanted an ice cream cake for our joint birthday celebration making it impossible to say no! I’d swap in some cocoa powder for the flour — perhaps 1/4 to 1/3 (which would make it very chocolaty). Just too runny!! Go ahead and reuse the parchment for another layer. “Extinguishing”, as we call it, baking soda with some sort of acid (vinegar, lemon juice or similar) is a standard practice whenever baking soda is used. The Russian Honey cake was a success on New Year’s Eve. i found that last part quite difficult! Happy to bookmark this for a future attempt if I get ambitious again! I seriously wish I could have a Rosh Hashanah do-over– I’m keeping it for next year! Thanks again! – Why does the dough roll out better when warm? you’re right; i didnt take into consideration that a 9″ square is bigger than a 9″ circle. I’m sure it’s great. I have a question though: what kind of sour cream did you use? Second time was better — I made sure the caramel cooked a while and I used brown sugar that time to get the beautiful honey-brown color in the photos. Here’s what you can do to fix the problem after the cake is out of the oven. I guess it has a lot to do with room temperature and humidity levels and it varies between places. Add golden raisins if you wish – my grandmother did. I just baked the layers. But I imagine it would be fairly forgiving of g-f flours, regardless. I wonder if chilling the filling in advance might help to make it a little less “gloppy” when assembling the cake layers? I’m a long time lurker despite using your recipes to make about 95% of my meals. It is said that the number of layers in a cake … Hello! Deb- I think the link to Anna’s photo should have been the word “doozy”, for obvious reasons. But I do have a question for you – do we really NEED a very thin filling here for better absorption? After driving to the store, they claimed a system issue so as not to have to take the order so I was forced to order online. When you talk about whisking the honey mixture in the pot and adding the egg ever so slowly, it seems like it would be easier to use an electric mixer (with a whisk attached) directly in the pot rather than a hand whisk. Because of that, your befuddlement at the recipes you were able to find online is total deja vu. There is a whole company in Perth Australia making a similar ‘honey cake’. I lined the same cake pan used for circles with plastic wrap hanging well over the sides, Followed some frosting at the bottoms, and then went about layering the cookies inside the pan, and gently but tightly wrapped the layers up in plastic. I bake it over 30 years under third name Рыжик. Hope others find this useful too! Mine was about 19% – is sour cream double or single cream for you? Once simmering, cook for 3 to 4 minutes (no specific temperature needed), it should get a faint shade darker and smell wonderful. I’m making this cake now and my filling also hasn’t seeped out after 3+ hours in the fridge. My husband loved it — he says the cake tastes exactly as he remembers it from Prague. Another tip, is to make the mix more liquid and spread a thin layer of it on a form with a spoon instead of rolling it out. I went to Russia last year for the first time and once I discovered this cake I just had to have it everyday, sometimes twice. Or would it not soften the layers enough? a gazillion copied-and-pasted recipes, not meaning that your or any recipe is a dump!) :). Hi Deb! Leave one or two picks or skewers in place while allowing the cake layers to soak up the moisture from the frosting. Fortunately, the proportions are very forgiving. :). I cannot wait to try it. I used to make a walnut torte, very time consuming. I ALWAYS make my grandmother’s honey cake recipe (ready for #3 for yom kippur this Wednesday – family would mutiny if I didn’t!!!) – This is a very stressful project. Can I use regular grocery store honey or should I look for something more exotic? Quick question – what fat content is the sour cream you used? Xenia. When you add it to the caramel, it immediately darkens. Then, invert the pan so that the cake comes out. Does that work for you? I found the dough to be super soft and sticky almost like a thick cake mixture rather than a bread dough. Olga, this was super helpful to me as someone trying to recreate a childhood (ok adult too) favorite. The cheapest thing in the protein line was a turkey breast and it still cost me $8.38 over the $40.00 voucher. It got better but still a bit messy. I don’t think leaving out the baking soda made a big difference. The layers are not perfect but I tried! Because, as you may know, there’s quite a hubbub in the Russian-American community about sour cream and how the American version is inferior*. And, since imitation is the best form of flattery, I have lightly adapted your recipe and linked to it on my own blog: http://musesplate.com/2018/01/21/russian-honey-cakes/#. My filling was the same, and I’m in Brooklyn, so I bought US sour cream. I have only made medivnyk twice, for my dad, whose mom was a superb cook. This one looks incredible. Not enough glooped out to cover the sides and top, so I ended up making another half batch. The sour cream is going to spill out and down the sides anyway (hear hear for those paper strips) and you’re going to start yelling at me/drafting an angry comment in your head. Sour cream will add weight and stability to the icing. If you are still struggling with figuring out the dough for the layers, this is the recipe I use (in Russian, but it has pictures for the steps): http://www.belonika.ru/recipes/346/. Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! The steps for the layers are as follows: melt the sugar in a pan until golden brown, add honey, add butter, cool it down a little, add 1/3 of flour, add eggs (this is how you do not end up with scrambled eggs, flour will cool the mixture down), add baking soda and citric acid, add the rest of the flour, mix everything well.
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