Bee Cake

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a Bee cake? Prepare the products. If possible, choose liquid, natural and high-quality honey. Butter — without vegetable fats, corresponding to GOST. You can take boiled condensed milk for cream ready-made or cook it yourself.

2. Step 2:

   

   Start making a cake by baking cakes. How to make cakes? Take a heat-resistant bowl (it will need to be put on a steam bath), beat eggs into it. Be sure to wash the eggs before use, as even the seemingly clean shell may contain harmful bacteria. It is best to use food detergents and a brush. Add sugar to the bowl with the eggs.

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   Lightly whisk them with a whisk.

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   Then add honey, butter and soda to them.

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   Mix everything with a whisk and put it on a steam bath. How to make a steam bath? Take a saucepan of a suitable size (with a diameter smaller than a bowl of food), boil water in it. There should be enough water so that the bottom of the bowl placed on the pan does not touch it. As soon as the water boils, reduce the heat to a minimum.

6. Step 6:

   

   Cook the mass in the bath, stirring continuously, until the mass doubles.

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   As soon as this happens, remove the mass from the stove and pour the sifted flour into it. It is important to sift the flour to saturate it with oxygen. Then the baking will turn out to be airy and will rise well when baking.

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   Knead the dough. First mix it with a spoon, then with your hands. The dough will immediately be a little sticky — it's okay, it will lie down a little, "rest" and it will stop sticking to your hands, it will roll out well.

9. Step 9:

   

   Cover the dough with cling film, let it rest and cool down.

10. Step 10:

    

    When the dough becomes slightly warm, continue working.

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    Roll out the cakes. You can roll it out immediately on parchment, dusting it with flour. I have a silicone baking mat, I rolled right on it. Divide the dough into small pieces, roll them into balls.

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    Roll out the cakes into a thin circle, no thicker than 5 mm (they will still rise). Using a plate of the desired diameter, cut off the excess dough. Then we bake the trimmings for sprinkling the cake. Transfer the cake on paper or a mat to a baking sheet.

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    Prick the cake a little with a fork so that it rises evenly when baking. Bake it in the oven at 200 ° C for 5-7 minutes until golden brown. Cakes are baked quickly (see everything in your ovens).

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    Stack the finished cakes in a pile to cool down. At the very end, bake the trimmings from the cakes.

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    While the cakes are cooling down, take care of the cream.

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    How to make cream? Combine sour cream, boiled condensed milk, white condensed milk and honey. Sour cream is suitable for any fat content, the fatter it is, the tastier it will be, but more caloric. If your sour cream is too thin, then weigh it overnight in gauze. Choose high-quality, proven condensed milk. Without vegetable fats and food additives. The composition should contain only two ingredients: milk and sugar. As a result, the taste and quality of the finished dish will depend on the quality of condensed milk.

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    Beat the ingredients with a mixer until smooth and fluffy.

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    Divide the cream into 2 parts. Most of it is for the cake itself, and the smaller part is for the top of the cake.

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    Grease the cakes with most of the cream. Put the blank cake in the refrigerator.

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    Prepare gelatin cream to decorate the top of the cake. To do this, soak the gelatin in milk for 10 minutes until it swells. It is better to do it right away in a small saucepan.

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    While the gelatin swells, chop the baked trimmings to sprinkle the sides of the cake. It is possible in a blender, it is possible in a mortar or a rolling pin.

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    Gelatin will swell well in the meantime.

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    Put the saucepan on the stove on a small fire and, with constant stirring, bring the gelatin to complete dissolution.

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    Cool the gelatin mass a little, 1-2 minutes, and, stirring gently, add to the cream that was left for the top of the cake. Here is such a watery consistency will turn out. Don't worry, it's the way it should be.

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    Fill the top and sides of the cake with gelatin cream, smooth it with a spatula. Then sprinkle the sides with chopped scraps.

27. Step 26:

    

    To form a honeycomb, you will need a film with pimples.

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    Attach it to the top of the cake, slightly pressing over the entire surface so that the bubbles seem to press into the cream. Put the cake to freeze overnight in the refrigerator.

29. Step 28:

    

    Make bees for decoration. Chop the cookies into fine crumbs.

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    Add soft butter, sugar, cocoa powder to it. Knead this mass well.

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    Make such "sausages" out of it. These will be the bodies of bees. Put them in the freezer for 10-15 minutes. Then transfer to the refrigerator.

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    Insert halves of nuts into the bodies of bees — these will be wings. With almond petals, the bees will become quite realistic.

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    Take the cake out of the refrigerator and very carefully remove the film.

34. Step 33:

    

    Decorate the cake as you wish. I planted bees near jelly raspberries and decorated them with raspberry leaves. Enjoy your meal!