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Chocolate Honey Layer Cake Recipe

Almost too pretty to eat, this chocolate honey cake is the epitome of decadence. You'll love the liqueur infused cake cream and all the beautiful layers!
Course Dessert
Cuisine Russian, Ukrainian
Keyword Chocolate Cake recipe, Chocolate-Honey Layer, Honey Cake
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings 12 servings
Calories 357kcal
Author Natalya Drozhzhin

Ingredients

Chocolate-honey Layer Cake

Chocolate-honey Cake Cream

  • 2 cup heavy whipping cream very cold
  • 1 cup sweetened condensed milk
  • 3 tbsp Irish cream liqueur
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Instructions

Preparing the Chocolate Honey Cake Layers

  • In a food processor, pulse the chocolate chips into tiny pieces and set them aside.
    Ingredients on table including; 3 eggs, a bowl with flour, a bowl with Irish liqueur, a measuring spoon with chocolate chips, another with cocoa, the third with baking soda , and fourth with honey
  • In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine the eggs with honey. Beat them together until they turn foamy and triple in volume.
    Honey and 3 eggs in a mixing bowl
  • In a separate bowl, stir the flour, baking soda, and cacao together. Set the mixture aside.
    Flour, baking soda and cocoa in one bowl
  • Stir in the oil and chocolate into the egg mixture and stir until well-combined.
    Ground up chocolate being combined with whisked eggs and honey
  • In small portions, fold in the flour mixture into the eggs. Mix until the ingredients are well-combined.
    Wet ingredients being combined with flour mixture in a mixing bowl
  • Divide the dough into eight equal pieces.
    Dough cut into 8 equal triangle pieces
  • On a well-floured surface, roll out a dough piece as large and flat as you can (you'll trim the layers down later, but this will help give you more surface to work with). To transfer it to the baking sheet easily, roll it up onto the rolling pin and unroll it onto the baking sheet.
    Dough being rolled out on a floured surface
  • Bake the cake layer at 350°F for 5-7 minutes or until lightly browned. While one layer is baking, roll out the next dough piece. Once the layer is done, remove it from the oven and trim it into a perfect circle using a dinner plate as a stencil. Save the cake trimmings for decorating. Repeat the process until all your cake layers are baked.
    Rolled out dough on a table with a plate on top of the dough

Making the Chocolate Honey Cake Cream

  • In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the sweetened condensed milk, Irish cream liqueur, and extra cold heavy whipping cream together until the mixture is thick and reaches stiff peaks.
    Whipping cream in a measuring cup, condensed milk in a measuring cup and Irish cream in a little bowl
  • Spread a thin layer of cream on your serving plate.
    Cream in a mixing bowl

Assembling the Cake

  • Place a cake layer on top of the cream on the serving plate and spread a layer of cake cream on top. Place another cake layer on top and repeat the process until you run out of cream and cake layers.
    Cake being layered with cream between each layer
  • Frost the outside of the cake with the remaining cake cream and refrigerate the cake overnight. The next day, blend up the leftover cake trimmings and decorate the sides of the cake with them. Optionally, you can pipe dollops of cream all over edges of the cake and place a chocolate chip right in the center.
    Chocolate-honey Layer Cake with the cream spread on the sides and on the top

Nutrition

Calories: 357kcal | Carbohydrates: 41g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 104mg | Sodium: 155mg | Potassium: 172mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 22g | Vitamin A: 711IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 109mg | Iron: 1mg