“Bel-Honey Cake” Makes Russia’s Favorite Cake “Medovik”
- Sameh Hani
- 04 Jul, 2022
If it’s your first time trying a honey cake and you are afraid not to like it, you should go to the nearest “Bel-Honey Cake” dessert shop branch and order a slice of it. Mohamed Mokhtar, 6th of October Bel-Honey Cake branch manager said that “many people normally love to crave something sweet”. The Bel-honey Cake is specialized only in honey cakes which is a 5-layered honey cake, as stated by Zeinab Mohamed, Bel-Honey Cake seller. Between each layer, there is a cream layer highlighting that few people thought that the outer layer was biscuits, however, it is just a normal outer layer of cake. She added that the cream is flavored with caramel, coffee, or sour cream. Noting that the origin of this cake’s flavor is sour cream, however, in Egypt the favorite is caramel. About the sizes, Mohamed added that there are 7 sizes for the Honey Cakes starting from the cake which is enough for 6 people to eat up to 30. And about the prices, it ranges from 100 L.E to 300 L.E. In addition to the presence of the slice which costs 20 L.E. Omnya Khaled, a Bel-Honey cake lover who loves the coffee flavor the most described how happy she feels when she eats it explaining the difference between Bel-Honey cake and their competitors in the Egyptian market where the honey biscuits layers which are filled with cream are crumbing “while in one of the competitors the cake was hard, not delicate and in another competitor it was made of whipped cream, not sour cream as I expected”. Honey cake or "Medovik" is known in its country of origin Russia. It is a very popular dessert that anyone living in Russia can eat daily. Its story returns back to the 19th century when a young chef in Alexander I palace wanted to serve and impress Elizabeth Alexeievna, Alexander I’s wife who became her favorite from her first bite. That means if you hate honey, still give it a try like Elizabeth Alexeievna and pick one slice of Bel-Honey Cake which may change your mind and go mad like her after taking the first bite. It is noteworthy that Bel-Honey Cake dessert shop started selling its products online until the beginning of 2021 when it opened its first branch in Hadayek El Ahram, and the fourth branch was opened before the end of 2021.
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