Recipe: Honey cakes, muffins and Latvian honey cake with nuts
Food / / December 19, 2019
Attention, fans of honey! This article contains three very tasty and very simple recipe: honey cakes, honey cake with sour cream and nuts and muffins with walnuts and honey impregnated. All three options have been tested and approved Layfhakerom. ;)
honey cakes
Ingredients:
- 4 cups sifted flour;
- ½ cup butter;
- 2 tablespoons powdered sugar;
- 2 tablespoons of honey;
- 2 egg yolks;
- 1 egg protein;
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder;
- 1 cup of milk;
- 1 pinch salt;
- 3 tablespoons ground almonds.
preparation
In a separate bowl interfere butter into flour. Over low heat in a small saucepan, mix two tablespoons sugar and two tablespoons of honey, bring the mixture to the homogeneity and add a disintegrant.
Whip the egg yolks with the milk, and enter there a little cooled honey and sugar. Then pour the mixture into flour, blended with oil. Knead the dough and add salt to.
Next, you have several options for working with the dough: a rolling it on the board, floured, and make cakes with the help of braces special molds for pastry, or hands are separating small pieces, form one oval bun the size of a half palm of your hand.
Ready cookies spread on a baking sheet, the laid paper baking lubricate them beaten egg whites and bake at 175-180 ºC for about 20 minutes.
Gingerbread pulls out of the oven, again lubricates beaten egg whites, honey watering from above, sprinkled with ground almonds if desired and again send in the oven has cooled down a bit literally for 5 minutes.
Latvian honey cake with nuts
Ingredients:
- 3 eggs;
- 1 cup honey;
- 2 cups flour;
- 2 teaspoons baking soda;
- 400 ml of sour cream;
- 1 cup sugar;
- 1 cup chopped walnuts.
preparation
In a bowl, mix together the honey, flour, eggs and baking powder until smooth. You should get the dough twice denser than biscuits.
Preheat oven to 175 ºC and blanketed paper pan for baking. Is laid out about a quarter of the dough and evenly distribute it using a spoon so that a thin rectangular cake. Bake until golden its state (about 5 minutes), and takes out the oven to cool. You are doing the same thing with the remaining dough. As a result, you should have four large shortcake. If you use a small rectangular shape, the cakes can be greater, as in the embodiment with circular shape for baking.
While preparing cakes, whip cream with sugar and send in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to allow the cream thickens slightly.
Lay out the bottom cake, sour cream lubricate it so that it is completely covered and it is well soaked, and sprinkle with nuts. Then you lay on top of a new cake and repeat the same thing. Ready cake send in the refrigerator for eight hours to impregnate.
honey cake
Ingredients:
- 1 pack of butter;
- 3 eggs;
- 1 ½ cups flour;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon;
- 1 teaspoon baking powder;
- ½ cup honey;
- 2 tablespoons of lemon juice;
- pine nuts (or any other).
preparation
Beat the eggs, mix with softened butter and sugar. Add all the remaining ingredients and the dough is well mixed until smooth. Lubricates a baking dish with butter and sprinkle with semolina to cupcake did not stick to the walls of the molds. Bake for 40-45 minutes in a preheated oven at 170-180 ºC.
For impregnating heat the honey to become liquid, and add to the lemon juice. Warm cake, without removing from the mold, pour the honey coated and leave to stand up so at least an hour.
In my case at hand was not pine nuts. In general, there was no nuts, and cake really wanted to try, so I picked cranberries (¼ of a cup) and apricots (six pieces), soaked in hot water with two tablespoons of cognac spoons. Next, dried apricots cut into small pieces and add it and steamed cranberries into batter. Also, the dough was added a little lemon peel. Cupcake was very tasty! With nuts it will be a little different, but not worse.