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Russian Honey Layer Cake – Medovik

Today I am introducing the cousing of the famous Russian Napoleon cake: Medovik. Just as Napoleon is a layer cake of twelve layers, so is Medovik. The main difference is the dough, Medovik does contain honey, but Napoleon does not. Just as there are several options for the filling for Napoleon, I opted for the traditional sour cream filling. This cake also as a crumb crust, which is leftover and baked dough that was processed into crumbs and then patted on the outside of the cake. Since you need to bake 12 layers of dough, this is a warning that this recipe requires time. I definitely believe it is worth all the effort. Usually I prefer fruity cakes with fresh fillings, however, once I tried Medovik, I secretly went for a second helping, it tastes amazing. Below you will see the recipe for a cake slightly smaller in diameter. I purposely went for a 18cm cake as it is rather filling and there is only the two of us. You can definitely cut into rather small pieces. Continue Reading…

22/08/2025

Give Away for World Bee Day and Honey Lavender Bundt Cake

May 20th is the worldwide Bee Day. For that reason I decided to publish a recipe with honey, today you will get a honey lavender bundt cake. In addition, I am giving away 1x honey jar from Münchner Honig, which was produced by the bees you see pictured here, 1x set of bee wax papers from Little bee fresh and 2x seeds to make a tiny meadow on your balcony to give the bees some flowers to take nectar from. How to be part of this, I explain below.

Did you know that working bees only live for six weeks? During that time they produce about a teaspoon of honey. Next time you complain about the price of honey, you know why. Considering that bees need to fly three times around the earth in order to produce one jar of honey, I would say honey is pretty cheap, don’t you think?

There are about 1,000 beekepers in Munich alone. Beekeeper Ines Zirnbauer runs Münchner Honig, so honey from Munich as a hobby. She was kind enough to allow me to take pictures of her while she was bee-keeping. While doing that, I learned a lot about bees. I am still amazed as to how much a bee is able to do (they have different jobs during their lives). At least I was not aware how much effort is put in one jar of honey. To think that for below recipe about 85 bees had to work all of their lives in order to produce the honey needed… wow, I never thought about that.

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20/05/2022

Lavender Cupcakes

Happy to present lavender cupcakes today. It has been way too long that I presented cupcakes. During these one and a half years I have only shown you guys three recipes, that’s crazy, three only! And since lavender has been on my bucket list forever, I decided to give it a shot this time. Lavender either in a cake or in a cupcake, that was my idea. So I used a basic vanilla cupcake recipe and added some lavender to it. Replaced some of the sugar with honey and added blueberries to the buttercream. May I present to you a summer symphony of lavender, honey, vanilla, and blueberries?

09/07/2018