Honey layer cake (Medovik) from First, Cream the Butter and Sugar (page 230) by Emelia Jackson

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  • Eat Your Books

    Can substitute this book's "Dulce de leche" for commercial dulce de leche.

  • DeborahG on October 26, 2023

    The cake layers are delicious and easy to make - quite a zen process. The filling however is awful. A traditional Russian / Ukrainian honey layer cake has a sour cream filling. By substituting a Dulce de Leche cream filling, the entire balance of the cake is destroyed, and rendered so sweet as to be inedible. Even my husband with a sweet tooth (and whose favourite cake IS a honey layer cake) didn’t enjoy it. Next time, I’d use the same recipe for the cake but make half the number of layers (7 would be quite enough, rather than the 14 which the recipe produced) and use a sour cream filling. Something more like the one in Mamushka, which I’m assuming is an authentic recipe.

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