Layered Honey Cake
A delicous and easy to make dessert common in Hungary and Armenia.

Ingredients
For the Cake Layers
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1/4 cup butter
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
For the Cream Filling
- 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1/4 cup butter
To decorate
- crushed nuts of choice, walnuts are recommended.
- 1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate, melted
Directions
- Preheat Oven to 375 degrees F.
- Using Parchment paper, cut into size of your oven safe dish of any shape.
- In a mixing bowl, combine the eggs and sugar. After combining set aside.
- Take a large saucepan over low heat, and melt the butter.
- To the melted butter, add the honey, the egg and sugar mixture and baking powder.
- Mix constantly until the mixture is well blended and almost foamy.
- Remove the saucepan off the heat and stir in the all purpose flour until a dough is formed.
- If the dough is too sticky, add a bit more flour.
- Take the dough and place on a clean flat surface and cut the dough into 5 equal pieces.
- Cover each dough segment with plastic wrap to keep warm.
- Flour your rolling pin, roll out one section of dough to fit your baking dish no thicker or thiner than 1/4 inch thick.
- Place on prepared cookie sheet and bake in the preheated oven for 3 to 5 minutes or until just barely golden.
- Remove after the baking is complete and place on a wire rack to cool down.
- Repeat these steps until all the remaining sections of dough are baked.
- Flour each cookie sheet when placing new dough on the baking sheet.
For the Cream Filling
- In a large mixing bowl, combine sweetened condensed milk, honey, butter and eggs.
- In a large pot on medium heat, pour mixture into the pot and stir constantly, bring to a boil until the mixture thickens.
- Remove from the heat and allow for it to cool completely.
- After everything cools down, alternate the 5 layers with a cream filling.
- Place on a serving dish before spreading the cream filling on top of cake.
- Melted chocolate in microwave or your favorite melting method.
- Top with crushed nuts and drizzle with melted chocolate.
- Allow the cake to sit for at least 8 hours before serving. Chill in the refrigerator.