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Medaus tortas (Medovik, Медовик)

From: Life of Boris

Prep 1:00
Yields 8 servings

The classical Eastern Europe cake.

Ingredients

Layers:

  • 3 eggs
  • 150 g sugar
  • 5 g baking soda
  • 400 g flour
  • 80 g honey, 1 tbsp = 20g
  • 100 g butter
  • 1 pinch of salt

Filling:

  • 500 g sour cream
  • 120 g condensed milk
  • 0.5 lemon juice, or lime

Instructions

  1. Melt the butter on low heat. Then add honey, and soda. Raise the heat and stir constantly until the mixture caramelizes for roughly 1-5 minutes.
  2. In a separate bowl roughly mix flour, salt, and eggs. Add caramelized mixture then mix well until the dough thickens.
  3. Divide the dough in 8 equal parts. If you roll it into a stick, it will help you to measure more easily for an equal parts. Wrap it in a plastic wrap and let it rest in the freezer for 10-15 minutes.
  4. Roll the dough pieces until it's slightly bigger than the round form (~21 cm) that you will be using for cutting the shape out of dough. Use that form and cut around following the shape. Collect the leftovers.
  5. Fill the oven tray with rolled dough as soon as you roll them and shove into the preheated oven of 180 °C and let it stay there for 7-10 minutes until it browns. Once baked put it out of the oven. Repeat steps 4, 5 until all dough pieces are baked. Then bake the leftovers.
  6. Mix the filling ingredients well. Place one baked layer on a plate then spread a generous amount of filling on top, add another layer on top and repeat until all layers are in the cake. Some of the filling should be still left.
  7. Crush baked leftovers into breadcrumbs. If the rest of the filling is too liquid, add some breadcrumbs inside until it becomes creamy. Spread this icing on top and on the side of the cake.
  8. Generously cover the top and the sides of the cake with breadcrumbs.
  9. Let the cake rest in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours (or better overnight).
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