Cake bee

12 servings
3 hours

Such an original honey cake will be appreciated by your guests and family over tea. Very tender and each piece just melts in the mouth. And raspberries and jewelry bees will delight your children. The top in the form of "honeycomb bees" make this cake very elegant) So that the cake becomes truly chic and the honeycomb works well, it must be brewed for at least 7 hours in the refrigerator.

How do I make a Bee cake? Prepare the products. Choose honey, if possible, liquid, natural and high-quality. Butter - without vegetable fats, corresponding to GOST. You can take the cooked condensed milk for the cream ready or cook it yourself.

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

Whisk them slightly.

Then add honey, butter and soda to them.

Stir everything with a whisk and put in a steam bath. How to make a steam bath? Take a suitably sized saucepan (smaller in diameter than a bowl of groceries), boil the water in it. There should be so much water 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.

Cook the mass on a bath, stirring continuously until the mass has doubled.

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

Knead the dough. First stir 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, & quot; rest & quot; and will stop sticking to his hands, will roll out well.

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

When the dough is a little warm, continue to work.

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

Roll out the cakes into a thin circle, no thicker than 5 mm (they will still rise). Using a plate of the diameter you need, cut off the extra dough. The trimmings are then baked to sprinkle the cake. Transfer the cake on paper or mat to a baking sheet.

Stick the bark 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. Korzhi bake quickly (see everything in your ovens).

Fold the ready-made cakes with a stack to cool. At the very end, bake the trimmings from the cakes.

While the corgi cool, make a cream.

How to make a cream? Combine sour cream, boiled condensed milk, white condensed milk and honey. Sour cream is suitable for any fat content, the fatter the tastier, but calorie. If your sour cream is too liquid, then weigh it overnight in gauze. Choose quality, proven condensed milk. Without vegetable fats and dietary supplements. The composition should contain only two ingredients: milk and sugar. The taste and quality of the finished dish will ultimately depend on the quality of the condensed milk.

Whisk the ingredients together with a mixer until smooth, lush.

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

For most of the cream, grease the cakes. Put the cake blank in the fridge.

Make a gelatin cream to garnish the top of the cake. To do this, soak the gelatin in milk for 10 minutes until swollen. Better do it right away in a small saucepan.

While the gelatin swells, grind the baked trimmings to sprinkle the sides of the cake. You can in a blender, you can in a mortar or a rolling pin.

Gelatin, meanwhile, will swell well.

Place the saucepan on the stove over a small heat and, with constant stirring, bring the gelatin to complete dissolution.

Cool the gelatin mass a little, 1-2 minutes, and, stirring gently, insert into the cream that was left for the top of the cake. This is such a liquid consistency. Do not worry, she is and should be.

Pour gelatin cream over the top and sides of the cake, flatten with a spatula. Then sprinkle the sides with crushed trimmings.

To form honeycombs, you need a film with bumps.

Apply it to the top of the cake, pressing a little over the entire surface so that the bubbles kind of push into the cream. Place the cake to freeze overnight in the fridge.

Make bees to decorate. Grind the biscuits into fine crumbs.

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

Blind from it such & quot; sausages & quot;. These will be the torsos of bees. Put them in the freezer for 10-15 minutes. Then transfer to the fridge.

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

Remove the cake from the fridge and remove the film very carefully.

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

Be prepared for the fact that flour may be needed more or less than indicated in the recipe. Focus not on the amount of flour, but on the desired consistency of the dough. To avoid mistakes, read about flour and its properties!

Why gelatin does not freeze well, how to avoid unpleasant gelatin lumps in the dish, as well as all the secrets and subtleties of cooking, read the article about gelatin.

Keep in mind that everyone has different ovens. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those indicated in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of the ovens!