Medovik cake

Medovik is a traditional 8 layer honey cake from Russia, and truly one of a kind. It is soft, moist, with lots of caramely-nutty flavour, and just enough tang from the sour cream to beautifully balance out all that honey goodness.

This Medovik cake is eight layers of honey goodness with creamy filling in between and adorned with caramel flames.

Soft honey layers baked to golden perfection sandwich a slightly tangy sour cream frosting. This cake is sheer heaven in every bite.

Cakes are a huge part of the ethnic Ukrainian culture. Households will typically have a special recipe book inherited from mothers or grandmothers. The

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The Russian honey cake has made the rounds of the local bakeries here in Melbourne and if you’ve been lucky enough to sink your teeth into one, you’ll know why. It’s traditionally made with sour cream between the honey cake layers, but I tasted one made with dulce de leche cream – game changer! This cake is visually stunning, incredibly flavoursome and texturally perfect. Although it looks difficult to make, it really isn’t. It is a bit of a long process, but it yields incredible results…

This honey cake is the cake I made for my own wedding. It’s soft, moist, tangy, and tastes like honey! It has an impressive eight cake layers with an easy four ingredient sour cream filling. You do need some patience to roll out each layer but it is well worth it. This is a popular Russian and Ukrainian cake - for good reason!

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This honey cake (Medovik / Медовик) is a staple of many cuisines of countries that used to be part of the Soviet Union. It's utterly beautiful to behold and layered with creamy goodness.