Another famous name for this treat is "Symphony", but for most people it is known as "Spartacus". This is a chocolate honey cake that can be made with different creams. The result is a very tasty combination of ingredients that the vast majority of people like: honey and chocolate.
How to make Spartak cake
This dessert is not difficult to prepare if you strictly follow the recipe recommendations. This treat is perfect for the holidays; it is often prepared for Christmas. The Spartak cake recipe includes honey-chocolate cakes and one of the cream options: custard, sour cream, etc. There is no exact information about where the name of this delicacy came from, but there are several basic options for its preparation. Spartak's recipe cannot be called complicated, but some rules must be followed:
- If you cool the dough a little, the cakes will not stick while rolling.
- Do not add too much flour while kneading the dough. Adjust the consistency so that the mixture does not stick to the rolling pin or your hands.
- Before rolling out the shortcakes, sprinkle the rolling pin and dough with flour.
- For a cake, the cream should be thick, it should not flow down the sides and top.
- When using custard, add softened butter in advance.
Spartak cake - classic recipe
Cooking time: 90 min.
Number of servings: 10.
Purpose: dessert.
Cuisine: Russian.
The whole process can be divided into three stages: preparation of cakes, cream and glaze. Below you will find a step-by-step recipe with photos for creating a tender, delicious dessert. The classic Spartak cake is prepared in the oven at 180 degrees. For convenience, the list of components will be divided into several groups to make it easier to prepare parts of the treat at each stage.
Ingredients:
For the crust
- honey – 4 tsp;
- flour – 400 g;
- cocoa – 4 tbsp. l.;
- egg – 2 pcs.;
- soda – 1 tsp;
- sugar – 200 g;
- butter – 100 g;
For the glaze
- cocoa – 3 tablespoons;
- water – 8 tbsp. l.;
- sugar – 5 tbsp. l.;
- butter – 50 g.
For fondant
- vanillin – 1 sachet;
- milk – ½ l;
- sugar – 150 grams;
- egg yolk – 3 pcs.;
- flour - 3 tbsp. l.;
- butter – 200 g.
Cooking method:
- To create the cakes, add beaten eggs, honey, softened butter, sugar, and cocoa to a convenient container. Mix the ingredients, place on low heat, stirring constantly. After the sugar has dissolved, add soda to make the mass increase in volume.
- Keep the pan on the fire for 8 minutes, then remove, add flour, stir the contents.
- Sprinkle the work area with flour, lay out the dough, and knead it. The consistency of the mass should be similar to plasticine: a little sticky, elastic, soft.
- Roll the dough into a rope, cut it into 10 pieces, roll each piece out rectangular shape. You should not put them in the refrigerator for a long time, because then it will be extremely difficult to roll them out. To get the perfect shape of the cake, you need to take a sheet of paper, attach it to the dough and trim the edges along the sheet.
- Place the shortcakes on a baking sheet, cover them with parchment paper first. Bake until golden brown (about 8 minutes), preheat the oven to 180 degrees. If there are scraps left from the dough, you can also bake them for decoration.
- The next stage is fondant. Add the yolks and some of the sugar to the bowl and grind until light. Then add vanillin and flour and mix the mixture. Lastly, pour in the warm milk and mix everything again.
- Pour the contents into a saucepan, place over low heat, stir constantly until the cream thickens. Remove from heat and cool completely. The cream needs to be thick; liquid is not suitable.
- Beat the softened butter with the remaining sugar with a mixer. With the mixer running, add the cream.
- For the classic recipe you will need chocolate glaze. Add butter, sugar, cocoa to the pan, hot water, put on fire (slow) and cook until thickened. After the mixture begins to boil, stir for another 3 minutes, then remove from the stove.
- Last stage– assemble the Spartak cake. Coat each cake with cream, pour glaze on the last one.
- Place the treat in the refrigerator overnight to soak.
- Spartak is ready.
Spartak cake with sour cream
Cooking time: 1.5 hours.
Number of servings: 10.
Calorie content of the dish: about 300 kcal/100 g.
Purpose: dessert.
Cuisine: Russian.
Difficulty of preparation: medium.
Spartak cake with sour cream is less sweet, but still very tasty. Everyone can choose what to coat the cakes with on their own, the base remains the same. The cream for Spartak in this step-by-step recipe with photos is prepared from sour cream. This option is absorbed into the base faster and saturates it; for oil with condensed milk, this will take longer.
Ingredients:
For the test
- sugar – 200 g;
- honey - 2 tbsp. l.;
- butter – 100 g;
- baking powder – 1 tsp;
- egg – 2 pcs.;
- flour - 4 cups;
- quicklime soda – 1.5 tsp;
- cocoa – 4 tbsp. l.;
For fondant
- sour cream (20%) – 700 g;
- powdered sugar – 1 tbsp.
Cooking method:
- First combine honey, sugar, butter. Melt the mixture in a water bath, then add the melted egg, mix thoroughly and continue heating.
- Pour soda into the mixture, do not bring the mixture to a boil, stir the contents regularly.
- You need to heat it for about 5 minutes, foam should form. When it appears, you can remove it from the water bath.
- Next add flour (necessarily sifted) and a spoonful of baking powder. To ensure that the cakes for Spartak turn out correctly, do not add all the flour at once, add 1 cup at a time, then mix thoroughly.
- Cocoa is added next to the cake batter. Stir the mixture until smooth, gradually adding flour.
- Sweep the dough onto the table; it should be pliable. Place it in the refrigerator immediately (you can wrap it in cling film). You shouldn’t let it cool for a long time to make it easier to work with it further.
- Take out the workpiece, divide it into 8 parts, roll it out.
- Place the prepared cake crust on a baking sheet and place in the oven at 200 degrees. They bake very quickly, each takes about 5 minutes. To prevent the base from swelling, you can pierce the layer with a fork.
- For the cream, beat the powdered sugar with sour cream. If you feel that it is not sweet, you can add more powder.
- Assemble the Spartak cake, spreading each cake with sour cream.
Spartak cake with custard
Cooking time: 90 min.
Number of servings: 8-10.
Calorie content of the dish: 320 kcal/100 g.
Purpose: dessert.
Cuisine: Russian.
Difficulty of preparation: medium.
You can call this cake a folk cake, because the author of the recipe or its roots are not known to anyone. Each housewife makes her own adjustments to the preparation. Cake Spartak with custard- the most common option for creating this dish. The cakes use exactly the same filling; it soaks the cakes well. Below is step by step instructions with a photo of the cake being prepared.
Ingredients:
For the cakes
- wheat flour – 3 tbsp;
- soda – 1 tsp;
- cocoa – 3 tbsp. l.;
- egg – 1 pc.;
- honey - 2 tbsp. l.;
- butter – 100 g;
- milk – 6 tbsp. l.;
- sugar – 1 tbsp.
Custard impregnation
- egg – 2 pcs.;
- sugar – 200 g;
- milk – 500 ml;
- flour – 2 tbsp. l.;
- butter – 250 g;
Cooking method:
- Prepare water bath. In a bowl, thoroughly beat the sugar and egg, then add honey, milk, butter, and slaked soda.
- Warm the mixture in a bathhouse for 15 minutes, stir.
- Take a clean bowl, combine cocoa and sifted flour.
- Remove the mixture from heating the water, add the mixed cocoa and flour a little at a time.
- Knead the dough. For Spartak it should turn out to be plastic, like plasticine.
- Divide into 10 parts, wrap in cling film, cool for about 2 hours in the refrigerator.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Spread the parchment, lightly sprinkle with flour, roll out each piece of mass thinly. Using a stencil, trim the corners of the future cake layer.
- Place the baking sheet in the oven; bake each layer separately for 5 minutes (until golden brown).
- To grease the cake, you need to combine vanilla sugar with regular eggs. Beat until smooth.
- Then add flour and mix again.
- Pour in the flour and place the mixture on low heat.
- Stir the mixture until it boils. Then pour the liquid into a bowl and let cool completely.
- Beat the softened butter well. Add the mixture one tablespoon at a time, continuing to whisk.
- Assemble the cake, carefully coating each layer. Spartak is ready.
Video
9 servings
2 hours 30 minutes
317.7 kcal
5 /5 (1 )
The Spartak cake is prepared from very simple and affordable ingredients. At its core, it is very similar to a regular honey cake. However, chocolate cakes and delicate cream give Spartak a special charm.
Classic recipe for Spartak cake
We need: rolling pin, pan, baking sheet, saucepan, parchment paper, mixer, bowls, spatula, dish or tray.
Ingredients
Step-by-step preparation
Cakes
- Combine 355 grams of flour, 35 grams of cocoa powder and 4 grams of baking powder in a separate bowl.
- Mix 105 grams in a saucepan butter, 75 grams of honey, 155 grams of sugar and send the pan to a steam bath.
- Be sure to stir the mixture until all components are completely dissolved.
- Separately, beat 2 eggs and add them to the melted butter-honey mixture.
- Pour 4 grams of soda into the pan, stir and cook over moderate heat for 8-10 minutes.
- Pour the resulting liquid mixture into the flour and knead the dough.
It will turn out sticky, but under no circumstances should you add flour.
- Leave the dough for 12-15 minutes. After this, it will become like plasticine and will be easy to work with.
- Divide the finished dough into 8 parts, cover with film and place in the refrigerator for 45-50 minutes.
- Dust the table with 10 grams of flour and roll out the dough on it into thin layers.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment, transfer the cake onto it, make several punctures with a fork and bake it for 10-11 minutes at a temperature of 180-190 degrees. We repeat these steps with all the cakes.
- Cut off all the excess from the hot cakes to give it the correct circle shape.
Cream
Fudge
Assembling the cake
Video recipe for making the classic Spartak cake
In the next video you can see the entire recipe for Spartak cake with sour cream described above.
Cake "Spartak" with custard
Cooking time: 135-140 minutes.
We need: saucepans, pans, bowls, fine sieve, spatula, whisk, tray or dish, rolling pin, parchment, baking sheet, mixer.
Number of servings: 9.
Ingredients
Step-by-step preparation
Cakes
- Combine 105 grams of sugar, 45 grams of cocoa powder and mix with a spatula.
- Heat 105 milliliters of milk in a saucepan, pour it into the sugar mixture and stir vigorously until everything dissolves.
- Strain the finished mixture into a saucepan through a fine sieve.
- Add 65 grams of honey and 55 grams of butter to the chocolate mixture.
- Place the pan in a water bath and cook until all ingredients are completely dissolved.
- Pour 16 grams of soda into the resulting mixture, mix and cook for 6-7 minutes.
- Separately beat one egg, add to the pan, stir and remove the finished mixture from the water bath.
- Pour 325 grams of flour into the resulting mixture and knead the dough. Leave the finished dough to cool for 5 minutes.
- Dust the table with 10 grams of flour, lay out the dough and knead with your hands for 2 minutes.
- Divide the dough into 9 parts and roll each into a thin layer.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment, place the cake on it, make several punctures with a fork and bake for 6-7 minutes at a temperature of 180-190 degrees. We repeat all these steps with the remaining cakes.
- We cut the hot cakes to form a circle shape.
- We grind all the trimmings into crumbs, which we will then use for decoration.
Cream
Assembling the cake
Video recipe for making Spartak cake with custard
To see in detail the entire process of preparing the Spartak cake with custard, I recommend watching the following video.
For a very long time I was going to make this wonderful cake, but I thought that it was complicated and I was not yet ready for such a process. However, after studying the recipe carefully, I saw that there was nothing particularly complicated. I decided to cook it. The Spartak cake turns out very tasty. Especially if you thoroughly soak it with cream (this will make it even more tender). I highly recommend baking such a cake, leaving behind all fears that it won’t work out.
To prepare the crust dough for the classic Spartak cake, we will need the following ingredients: flour, honey, butter, sugar, soda, baking powder, eggs and cocoa.
Beat eggs with sugar, add honey and soft butter. Place the mixture in a water bath and stir with a whisk for 7 minutes. Add baking soda to the mixture and stir until foam appears.
Add baking powder and cocoa to the mixture, stir, sift the flour in parts, stirring all the time.
You should get a soft dough. It should be placed in the refrigerator for 1 hour, placing the dough in a plastic bag.
Prepare ingredients for making cream: flour, milk, butter, eggs and condensed milk.
Beat the eggs in a ladle, add flour and some of the milk, stir well. Gradually pour in the rest of the milk.
Then pour in the condensed milk, put the ladle on the fire and, without ceasing to stir the mixture, brew the cream. The cream should be quite thick.
When the cream has cooled to room temperature, beat the butter in a food processor, gradually pour in all the custard and beat until smooth.
Now you can start rolling out the cakes. Divide the dough into 8 pieces and roll each piece very thinly on parchment. You can roll out all the cakes at once by cutting off 8 sheets of parchment, or you can roll out 4 sheets and, while they bake one by one, roll out the rest. The choice is yours.
Bake the cakes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about 5 minutes for each cake. Place the cakes in a stack.
Trim the cakes to one size (mine are 22 cm). Save the cut pieces for sprinkling the cake. Grease each cake with cream.
Place the cakes one by one on a plate, grease each with cream and prepared cream. Also grease the sides of the cake with cream.
Pour the cream into the ladle, heat it and add the chocolate pieces. After a minute, stir the chocolate into the cream until a glossy mass is obtained.
Spread chocolate icing over the top and sides of the cake.
Sprinkle the sides of the cake with crushed crumbs left over from trimming the cake layers and decorate as desired. The classic Spartak cake must soak overnight in the refrigerator.
Bon appetit!
Place sugar, honey, butter in a 2-3 liter pan and place the pan in a water bath. Stir the mixture constantly until the sugar is completely dissolved.
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When the sugar has dissolved, remove the pan from the water bath and add soda. The mixture may begin to foam heavily; it is important to stir constantly. Let it cool a little and add the eggs one at a time. Then add cream.
In a separate bowl, mix flour, baking powder and cocoa.
Mix all the ingredients.
Mix the dough with your hands and put it in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes.
After 30 minutes, take out the dough and divide it into 8 equal parts. We roll each part into a thin layer, giving it the desired shape. Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 15-20 minutes at 180 degrees.
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Preparing cream for Spartak cake.
In a small saucepan with a capacity of 1.5 - 2 liters, combine condensed milk, flour, eggs and milk. Stir well or beat with a whisk. Place the pan in a water bath and boil until thick. Let the resulting mass cool completely.
Place the pan in a water bath and boil until thick. Let it cool completely.
After the custard has cooled completely, transfer it to a mixer and add butter. Beat until a homogeneous consistency is obtained.
Assembling the cake. Coat each cake generously with cream and place in the refrigerator for 10-12 hours. Give the cake time to soak.
Cut the cake. Give it the desired shape.
Level the cake using cake leveling buttercream.
Level the mastic and trim off the excess, as in the photo. Decorating the cake.
Enjoy a delicious homemade cake with condensed milk and custard! Pleasant emotions!!!
Let's prepare the dough for the Spartak cake.
This cake is very reminiscent of the famous “Honey Cake” in its preparation technology, but its taste is more rich and chocolatey. The cake dough is also prepared in a steam bath, but in addition to eggs, honey and sugar, cocoa is also added to it. About We'll tell you how to make Spartak cake in our article. We offer several recipes for the famous cake with different types cream.
Cake "Spartak": classic recipe
Chocolate and honey cake "Spartak" is traditionally prepared with custard made with condensed milk. The cake turns out moist, sweet, with a lot of thin layers and delicious cream.
- Break 2 eggs into a deep bowl and add sugar (175 g).
- The dishes with eggs and sugar are placed in a water bath. Using a mixer, the ingredients are turned into a fluffy and hot mass.
- Honey and margarine (100 g each) are added to the egg mixture.
- Then add soda (1 ½ teaspoons), flour (320 g), baking powder (1 teaspoon) and cocoa (100 g).
- A soft dough like plasticine is kneaded. After that, it is wrapped in film and placed in the refrigerator for 1 hour. During this time you can just make the cream.
- The chilled dough is divided into 8 parts. Each lump of dough is rolled out with a rolling pin and a circle is cut out using a template.
- The cakes are baked in an oven preheated to 180° for 3-4 minutes each.
Cream for cake with condensed milk
The cake is given a special taste by the delicate cream prepared with condensed milk. The result is very tasty cake, well soaked, with rich chocolate and honey layers.
To prepare the cream, in a deep bowl, carefully grind 2 eggs with flour (130 g). Then condensed (1 can) and whole milk (220 ml) are poured here. The bowl with the ingredients is placed in a water bath and with constant stirring the cream is brought to a thick consistency. While the cream is cooling, in a separate bowl, beat the butter (200 g) with a mixer until it becomes fluffy. Gradually cooled custard is introduced into the creamy mass.
All cakes (except the top one) are coated with freshly prepared cream. The top of the cake is covered with glaze made from melted chocolate (150 g) and 10% fat cream (120 ml). Before eating, the cake should be soaked in the refrigerator for at least 8 hours.
Recipe for Spartak cake with custard
It is with custard that the Spartak cake is most often prepared. Thanks to the delicate texture of the cream and butter in the composition, the product is well soaked within 5 hours.
The Spartak cake is prepared according to the classic recipe in the following sequence:
- 1 egg is driven into a deep bowl, sugar (150 g), margarine (150 g) is added, and then milk is poured (2 tablespoons), soda (1 teaspoon) and liquid honey (3 tablespoons) are added. The dishes are placed in a water bath and with constant stirring the mass heats up and increases at least 2 times, becomes fluffy and light.
- The dishes are removed from the water bath, cocoa (50 g) and flour (400 g) are added to the dough. The dough will be soft at first, but as it cools it will become more elastic and firm. It needs to be divided into five parts, roll out each of them and bake the cakes.
- To prepare the cream, you need to grind the yolks (3 pieces) with sugar (150 g) and starch (40 g). Pour in hot milk (500 ml), stir and put the pan on the fire. Stirring constantly, cook the cream until it reaches a thick consistency. Cover the cream with cling film until it cools.
- Beat butter (250 g) with powdered sugar (40 g), then literally add the cooled cream one spoon at a time.
- Grease each cake except the top one with cream. Decorate the product with chocolate glaze on top.
Recipe for Spartak cake with sour cream
This cake turns out incredibly tender thanks to the use of sour cream and yogurt cream. And if the dough for the “Spartak” cake according to the classic recipe is prepared as for “Medovik” only with the addition of cocoa, then in this case currant jam is also added to it.
To prepare the dough, eggs (6 pieces) and sugar (500 g) are mixed in a water bath, margarine (100 g), jam (220 g) and soda (2 teaspoons) are added. Then the mixture is removed from the heat, cocoa (200 g) and flour (0.8-1 kg) are added. You should get an elastic dough. It is divided into 8 parts. Each ball is rolled out into a layer 4 mm thick and baked until ready for 5 minutes.
The cream is prepared from sour cream with a fat content of 25% (600 g), yogurt (100 ml), powdered sugar (200 ml) and starch (1 tablespoon). All ingredients are thoroughly beaten with a mixer until a thick consistency is obtained.
Before assembling the cake, the cake layers are soaked in pre-prepared instant coffee. After that, cream is applied to them, and the top of the cake is covered with chocolate glaze.
Cake "Spartak" without honey
People who are allergic to honey can be asked to bake the following cake. To prepare the dough, first of all, 1 beaten egg, 50 g of butter, milk (7 tablespoons) and 250 g of sugar are heated in a water bath. The hot mass is removed from the heat, after which cocoa (4 tablespoons), soda (1 teaspoon) and flour (400 g) are added to it. You can bake as many as 6 or 7 cakes from this easy-to-work, elastic dough.
Cake "Spartak" can be prepared at home with any cream, for example, custard or sour cream. It also turns out very tasty with butter cream. To do this, cream with a fat content of 30% is whipped with a mixer with sugar (150 g). The resulting cream is spread over all the cake layers, and the top of the product is covered with chocolate glaze.
Cooking secrets
The following recommendations will help you prepare the most delicious chocolate-honey and soft Spartak cake:
- As a decoration, the cake is topped with chocolate icing or crumbs. If the cake scraps are not enough to prepare the topping, you can add cocoa crumbs, chopped nuts or cookies. In any case, the cake will be very tasty and well soaked.
- Cream will help make the cake taste even more chocolatey. It is enough to add a few spoons of cocoa to custard or sour cream and the taste of the dessert will become completely different.
- Honey cakes soak very well, but for this you need to keep the cake in the refrigerator or for 2 hours at room temperature and 1 hour at lower.
The Spartak cake will be an excellent decoration and treat for festive table. It is prepared from the simplest and most affordable ingredients, and the taste of the dessert is amazing.
