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Honey Cakes and Cream

Honey Cakes and Cream

This is possibly the best tea-table type dessert I've ever had, and it came from my mother in law.

Ingredients

  • 2 eggs
  • ¾ cup of sugar
  • 1 stick (1/2 cup) room temp (unsalted) butter
  • 3 tbsp honey
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 3 ½ cups of flour
  • Cream Mixture (half portion, double this if you're stacking all six layers)
    a. 7 oz sweetened condensed milk
    b. 1 stick butter (1/2 cup) at room temperature

Directions

  1. Sift flour into a bowl. Set it aside.
  2. Break 2 eggs into a stovetop pot with a thick bottom. Add sugar and mix well.
  3. Add the honey. Cut butter into chunks and add to the sugar/egg mix and stir.
  4. Set aside 2 tsp baking soda until needed.
  5. Put the pot on the stove, on high heat until it’s warmed up and starting to melt the butter, then turn down to low heat (2). Mix all the time to keep it from burning. THIS IS EASY TO BURN. PAY ATTENTION. Mix until the sugar and butter are completely dissolved and the mix is hot.
  6. Sift the baking soda into the mix slowly as you stir briskly and continuously. The volume should increase twice as the honey and baking soda react. Color should be creamy yellow. Consistency should go from very viscous > runny > creamy.
  7. When done, take the bowl off the stove and add the flour a little at a time and mix it in as you go.
  8. Take the pot off the stove and wrap it in a towel and a coat. Let it sit in insulation for an hour (alternately, put the covered pot in the oven at “Keep Warm” setting 145 degrees)
  9. Spread flour on a table or cutting board. Take the dough out of the pot. Knead it for a little while and roll it into a thick cylinder. Cut into 6 pieces.
  10. Roll these into spheres, pinch and press to flatten, and then lay each on its own piece of parchment paper and smooth them with a rolling pin. Should be very thin, like pie top-crust.
  11. Bake for 5 minutes at 380 degrees.
  12. While the cakes are still hot, put a plate upside down on top and cut off the cake edges that stick out for more uniform shapes. Save the edges for later.
  13. (Sergey specific step) Set aside half the cakes for Sergey, no cream. Slice into plain cookie triangles.
  14. Mix the cream ingredients. If you are skipping step 13, then double the ingredients.
  15. Spread cream on top of 1 layer, stack the next on top. Repeat until done. Crumble the cut-off edge bits on the top.
  16. Let it sit at room temperature overnight.

Recipe given by Tamara.