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Simple Honey Cake with Cream and Dulce de Leche

Moist, sweet and soft! This cake is sure to become a new favorite cake recipe!
Total Time1 hour 30 minutes
Course: Desserts
Cuisine: Russian
Allergy: Vegetarian
Servings: 10
Calories: 376kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 3 Tbsp honey
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 2 tsp lemon juice
  • 1½ cups flour
  • 8 Tbsp unsalted butter, softened
  • 8 oz whipping cream
  • 1 can dulce de leche, prepared ahead of time
  • ½ cup pecans, chopped
  • 1 tsp sugar, for sugar water
  • 1 cup water

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350 F.
  • Prepare the dulce de leche.
    1 can dulce de leche,
    Dulce de leche in a jar.
  • Beat the whipping cream in a bowl with sugar until it gets stiff peaks. Transfer to the fridge until ready to use.
    8 oz whipping cream
    Whipped cream in a silver bowl.

For the cake:

  • Beat together eggs and sugar in a hand or stand mixer.
    3 large eggs, 1 cup sugar
  • Add honey to the mixing bowl.
    3 Tbsp honey
    Eggs and sugar mixed in a silver bowl.
  • In a separate shallow bowl or plate, mix baking soda and lemon juice. Once it has started to foam up, add to the mixing bowl.
    1 tsp baking soda, 2 tsp lemon juice
    Lemon juice and baking soda mixture in a blue bowl.
  • On the lowest speed, mix in the flour and combine well.
    1½ cups flour
    Making cake batter in the bowl of a stand mixer.
  • Butter your cake pans and spread a thin layer of batter.
    Cake batter in pans.
  • Bake for 7 minutes or until the toothpick comes out clean.
    Baked cake layers in springform pans.

For the cream:

  • In a mixing bowl beat the unsalted butter. Add in dulce de leche and combine well together.
    8 Tbsp unsalted butter,, 1 can dulce de leche,
    Dulce de leche prepared in a glass bowl.
  • Add in already whipped cream to the dulce de leche mixture and beat well.
    8 oz whipping cream
    Cake cream in a glass bowl.
  • Take a small bowl or shallow plate. Mix sugar and water.
    1 tsp sugar,, 1 cup water
  • Soak the first layer of cake with the sugar water. It will make your cake moist. Spread cream over the layer and top with another cake layer.
    Adding sugar water mixture to cake layers.
  • Continue soaking each layer with sugar water and spreading cream until finished.
    Frosting cake layers.
  • Spread cream all around the cake.
  • Chop pecans and sprinkle over the cake.
    ½ cup pecans,
    Decorated cake on a wooden board for serving.
  • Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Notes

I used 8″ cake pans for this recipe and ended up making 4 layers.

Nutrition

Calories: 376kcal | Carbohydrates: 41g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 22g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 99mg | Sodium: 136mg | Potassium: 86mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 26g | Vitamin A: 687IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 32mg | Iron: 1mg