Why do people, when I say I’ll be baking a cake, directly assume it will be a space-cake… I’m not making a space-cake this time. This time I’ll be baking a honey-cake! Based on a traditional Czech recipe. :-p

Tomorrow or this weekend I’ll give my culinary abilities a nice test. I already got all the ingredients and all the equipment. All I need to do is make the connections and hopefully a delicious cake will be the result. With this cake I should probably invite my parents and brother to come by and visit, so that all future criticism about lacking cookies will be ended. ;-)

Okay, this is the recipe:

Honey Cake I

You need:
· 2 honey spoons
· 2 milk spoons
· 1 egg
· 15 dkg powdered sugar
· 5 dkg butter
· 1 soda bicarbona tea-spoon

Do:
· Mix everything together.
(My experience is that it is easier to mix everything this way – You lay a pot over another one with boiling water and mix everything in the upper one.)
· Add 50 dkg four (we call that sort of flour ‘smooth’ but I don’t know if you have different sorts of flour).
· Make a dough.
· Roll the dough with a rolling pin into 4 flat pancakes.
· Lay a baking paper onto a baking sheet and lay a pancake on a baking sheet and bake it.
· Pile all baked pancakes and ‘glue’ them together with creme (butter, powdered sugar, flour, milk)

Honey Cake II

You need:
· 350g smooth flour
· 1 egg
· 100g sugar
· 50g butter
· 2 honey spoons
· A little bit of cinnamon
· 1 soda bicarbona tea-spoon
· 1 water spoon

Do:
· Whip everything , except flour, together in a pot on a oven.
· Add flour and make a dough.
· Greese a baking tray and dust it with a little bit of flour.
· Put dough on a baking tray and make it flat with your hands.
· Bake it.
· Spread the cold pancake with a creme and leave it for a next day.
· Cut it into stripes and pile it one on another.
· Spread the surface with creme and sprinkle with chopped nuts.

How to make creme?

You need:
· 3/4 l milk
· 200g sugar
· 1 package vanilla sugar (Do you have anything like this? If not, just skip it)
· 8 flour spoons
· 1 vanilla pudding spoon
· 2 yolks
· 250g butter
· Rum (a little bit) :-))

Do:
· Mix 1/4 l milk, flour, yolks and vanilla pudding.
· Cook 1/2 l milk with sugar.
· Add mixture ad a) to hot milk ad b) and cook till it’s thick.
· Let it cool down a little bit and add butter, rum and whip it all