Honeycakes With Cream Cheese Filling And Cherry Compote

Serves: 3

Kirstin Bosco

1 January 1970

Based on User reviews:

53

Spice

44

Sweetness

47

Sourness

43

mins

Prep time (avg)

4.8

Difficulty

Ingredients:

3.5 cups

Rye Flour

2.5 tsps

Baking Soda

1 tbsp

Sugar

1 pinch

Salt

1 tsp

Cardamom

1.5 cups

Vegetable Oil

8

Eggs

1 cup

Orange Juice

1 tsp

Vanilla

450 g

Cream Cheese

1 cup

Butter

1 tsp

Honey

450 g

Dried Cherry

Directions:

1

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F

2

Shift together flour and baking soda

3

Combine sugar, salt, and spices in a mixing bowl

4

In a separate bowl, whisk together oil, eggs, and water and add to sugar mixture

5

Add honey then gradually stir in the sifted flour and baking soda then mix on high speed for 5 minutes

6

Spray 12 mini-bundt pans with non-stick spray

7

Pour batter into molds

8

Bake for 16 minutes and test with a toothpick for doneness

9

Remove cakes from mold

10

Brush with syrup and allow to cool

11

Plating: Put filling into a pastry bag and pipe 3 teaspoons of filling into the center of each cake, spoon cherries and some of the syrup around cake and dust with powdered sugar

12

Combine all ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a boil

13

Remove from heat and set aside

14

Combine the cream cheese, butter, sugar orange zest and honey

15

Mix until fluffy

16

Combine cherries, sugar, and cinnamon in a small saucepan with enough water to cover

17

Heat to a near boil

18

Remove from heat and stir

19

Cherries should be coated with the syrupy liquid

20

Drain and set aside