Honey cake with custard

Cooking

Step 1

Heat softened butter, sugar and honey in a water bath for about 4-5 minutes, stirring constantly. The mixture should become homogeneous and the sugar should dissolve completely. Add baking soda, stir and heat for 1 minute more. Remove mixture from heat, add eggs while stirring vigorously.

Step 2

Add flour and stir until smooth. Place the dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Step 3

Divide chilled dough into 8 parts. On a sheet of parchment, draw a circle with a diameter of about 20 cm. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Roll out each part in turn into a thin circle on parchment and bake for 3-5 minutes. until ready (it is convenient to use 2 sheets of parchment with a circle outlined).

Step 4

Prepare the custard: grind the yolks with sugar and vanilla. Add 50 ml of cold milk and stir. Add the sifted flour to the yolks and mix well again. Add another 50 ml of milk to the mixture. Bring the rest of the milk to a boil and pour in a thin stream to the yolks while stirring vigorously with a whisk.

Step 5

Put the mixture on the stove and, with constant stirring, bring to a boil and thicken. Add chilled butter to the cooled cream and beat the mixture with a mixer.

Step 6

Layer honey cakes with ready-made cream. Dilute the icing sugar with lemon juice to the desired consistency and cover the top cake. Give the cakes time to soak a little and cut into portioned cakes. Decorate each cake with marmalade flowers.