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Honey cake "Winnie-the-Pooh" recipe
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Honey cake "Winnie-the-Pooh"

The honey cake "Winnie-the-Pooh" dates back to the Soviet era and was one of the most popular homemade cakes at that time. It consists of a fluffy honey dough and a delicate sour cream. Walnuts also add a special flavor to the cake. With this recipe you can easily make the honey cake, named after the famous Soviet cartoon, yourself with ordinary ingredients.
Course Dessert
Cuisine Russian, Soviet
Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 20 minutes
Cooling Time 8 hours
Servings 14

Ingredients

for the dough

  • 100 g honey
  • 100 g butter
  • 180 g sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • approx. 510 g flour
  • 8 g baking soda (sodium carbonate)
  • 1 tbsp rum (cognac or liqueur)
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • flour for the work surface

for the cream

  • 770 g sour cream
  • 90 g butter room warm
  • 120 g powdered sugar
  • vanilla
  • 100 g walnuts roasted and coarsely chopped

Instructions

Preparation of the dough

  • Put butter cut into pieces, sugar and salt in a small saucepan with a thick bottom and heat it over low heat, stirring, until the butter is melted. Then continue to bring the mixture to a boil over low heat, stirring, and simmer until slightly thickened, about 5 minutes.
  • Take the butter-sugar mixture off the heat, add honey, baking soda and rum and stir. Place the mixture back on the stove and heat (don't boil!) it over low heat, stirring, for about 5 minutes, until it turns a very light caramel color.
  • Take the honey mixture off the heat and let it cool to warm.
  • Stir in eggs to the honey mixture.
  • Add flour in batches and knead briefly to form a very soft dough.
  • On a floured work surface, divide the dough into four equal pieces, roll each piece of dough in flour, and roll each piece out thinly on a sheet of baking paper into a rectangle about 30 cm x 38 cm (about the size of a baking sheet).
  • Also roll out the leftover dough thinly.
  • Bake the four thin cake layers one after the other in the preheated oven at 180 °C top and bottom heat for about 5 minutes each until they turn a light golden brown color.
  • While each cake layer is still warm, carefully cut it into two equal parts. Let the 8 cake layers you got now cool down.
  • Bake also the leftover dough, let it cool and crumble it finely.

Preparation of the cream

  • Mix sour cream, powdered sugar and vanilla.
  • Add softened butter cut into pieces and beat until creamy.

Preparation of the cake

  • Spread 7 of the 8 cake layers with the cream, sprinkle them with roasted and chopped walnuts and stack them on top of each other.
  • Place the last cake layer on top and spread it also with the cream. Spread the sides of the cake with the remaining cream.
  • Sprinkle the top and sides of the cake with the crumbs and refrigerate for about 8 hours or overnight.

Notes

  • The specified amount of flour for the dough may vary. Add flour in portions until a soft dough is formed.
  • Alcohol for the dough can be omitted.
  • The amount of powdered sugar for the cream can be adjusted to taste.
  • As vanilla for the cream goes among other things vanilla bean scraped, vanilla sugar or vanilla extract.
  • Note the detailed tips and tricks for making the honey cake "Winnie-the-Pooh" above in the post.