Honey cake (Medovik) from Chesnok: Cooking from My Corner of the Diaspora: Recipes from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia (page 200) by Polina Chesnakova

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    Can substitute sweetened condensed milk for dulce de leche and vanilla sugar or vanilla extract for vanillin.

  • caresan on February 02, 2026

    Everything about this recipe turned out perfectly! I was a bit intimidated by the picture but once reading through the recipe and watching a few videos, this cake wasn't difficult to put together. Highly recommend you use a light honey (as stated in the recipe) or else the honey flavor will be too strong. I used an orange blossom honey from Portugal and I liked the taste but my friend from Lithuania said it was very good but the honey flavor was on the stronger side.

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