New Year’s Cake
Description
Perfect with tea or coffee. This cake comes together easily but needs time — a classic layered honey cake. The layers bake in no time, so you can bake them one day and make the frosting and assemble the next. Cut your stencil from thick glossy paper that won’t stick to the dough. Follow the recipe step by step and you’ll get great results. Serve warm or chilled. Perfect with tea.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients for making the cake “Yolochka”.
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Step 2
Prepare the pastry for the crusts (layers). Break an egg into a saucepan, add sugar and a pinch of salt.
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Step 3
Pour in the liquid honey. Mix the egg with sugar and honey.
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Step 4
Add butter.
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Step 5
Put the pot on the stove and bring the contents to a boil. Add the baking soda.
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Step 6
When the mixture foams, remove the pot from the heat. Cool to room temperature.
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Step 7
Add the flour.
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Step 8
Knead a soft dough that doesn’t stick to your hands and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
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Step 9
Divide the chilled dough into three equal parts. Roll each part thin. Place the Christmas tree stencil on top. My tree is 30 cm tall and 20 cm wide at the bottom.
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Step 10
Bake each sponge layer in the oven at 175–180 °C for 5–7 minutes. The layers should turn golden brown.
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Step 11
Prepare the cake frosting. Put soft butter in a bowl and beat with a mixer until light and fluffy.
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Step 12
Add the condensed milk one tablespoon at a time, without stopping whipping the cream.
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Step 13
The result is a delicate, airy cream that holds its shape beautifully.
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Step 14
Spread the first and second sponge layers with white cream. Set aside one tablespoon of white cream.
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Step 15
Gradually add green food coloring to the cream until you get an intense color.
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Step 16
Using a piping bag fitted with a star tip, pipe the cream onto the third cake layer.
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Step 17
Add cocoa to the reserved spoonful of white cream and stir. Decorate the Christmas tree trunk with stars.
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Step 18
Decorate the Christmas tree (cake) to taste with dragées and confectioner's sprinkles. Allow the cake to soak for at least 12 hours.