Cheap cake in a hurry

If desired, margarine in the cake recipe can be replaced with butter - it will turn out very tasty, but baking will become more expensive. However, margarine is also not worth buying the cheapest - it is better to choose a high-quality option. There is no need to take margarine out of the refrigerator in advance. Just cut it into large pieces and put it in a small saucepan, which we put on a slow fire.

Add granulated sugar, the specified amount of honey (both liquid and already candied) and baking soda to the margarine pan. Mix everything and cook over low heat until light brown. In terms of time, it will take from 8 to 12 minutes. Do not move away from the stove, watch, stir the mixture often. We do not allow burning.

Remove the brownish mixture from the fire and add sour cream to it, you can directly from the refrigerator. Mix everything thoroughly. Next, break the eggs into the mixture. We do this first in another container, and then add it to the future dough. This will help to avoid spoilage of products if you suddenly come across a stale egg. Beat the mass with a hand whisk or mixer.

Sift the flour and mix it in portions to the liquid ingredients. Mix everything thoroughly, you can beat it again with a mixer. The dough should be homogeneous, plastic. Be prepared for the fact that flour may need more or less than indicated in the recipe. You need to focus on the consistency of the dough. There is a lot of useful information about why flour of the same variety can have different properties, read this article

Forms are lined with baking parchment. You can use any shape - round, square. You can even use pans of approximately the same diameter. Pour out the dough. More if you want thick cakes. Smaller if thin. Remember that thick cakes can be cut in half lengthwise.

We put the molds in a preheated oven (temperature - 180 degrees Celsius) for 10-15 minutes - depending on the thickness of the cake and the type of oven, the time will vary. Next, we remove the hot cakes from the molds and put them on the grill to cool down.

At this time, we make the cream by simply beating sour cream with powdered sugar with a mixer. The amount of powdered sugar is adjustable to your taste.

The cooled cakes are cut off so that they are the same size and with smooth edges. Scraps are crushed with a blender or a pusher into crumbs. We collect the cake. generously smearing the cakes with sour cream. By the way, sour cream in this cake can be replaced with another, for example, custard. The sides and the top of the cake are also smeared, and then sprinkle with crumbs.

That's it, the cake is ready so quickly! We put it in the refrigerator before serving.