Rich Honey Cake With Prunes
From crainny 17 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 12
This extravagant rich and moist cake will guarantee the success of your party. There is more to life than chocolate, you know! Last party, I made a chocolate dessert and this one, and people were asking for recipe of "NONCHOCOLATE" :) Imagine that! Read more Always prepare it in advance - it needs some time to soak. See less
Ingredients
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- 1/3 cup honey shopping list
- 1/2 cup butter (1 stick) shopping list
- 3 large eggs shopping list
- 1/2 cup white sugar shopping list
- 1 tsp baking soda shopping list
- pinch of salt shopping list
- all purpose flour shopping list
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- 30 pitted prunes shopping list
- 1/2 cup red wine shopping list
- 2 lbs sour cream shopping list
- 1-1/2 cups sugar shopping list
- 1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts shopping list
- pinch of salt shopping list
- 1 lemon - both zest and juice shopping list
- vanilla extract shopping list
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How to make it
- Warm up wine in microwave until very warm
- Pour wine over prunes and set aside
- Preheat the oven to 375F
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- Make the crust:
- Prepare a "steam bath" by boiling water in one saucepan and setting the other saucepan over the boiling water. They don't have to fit well together, you can just hold the upper pan in your hand over the boiler.
- Whisk sugar, pinch of salt, butter, honey and eggs together over the steam until smooth and sugar dissolved
- Remove from heat, add baking soda
- Add 2 cups of flour immediately, mix very fast and thoroughly, and keep adding flour in smaller batches until forms soft and sticky dough. Stir with wooden spoon
- Fold the dough out on a well floured surface and knead until it stops sticking to your hands
- Divide dough into 8 pieces and shape them into balls
- For each ball:
- a. roll it out on a well floured surface into 1/4 inch crust
- b. put a cake dish over it, and cut around the dish to shape the crust into a perfect cake shape
- c. transfer the crust onto un-greased baking sheet and pierce it with fork in many places
- d. bake the crust for about 4-5 minutes, or until nicely golden. Don't brown too much
- Set crusts aside and let cool
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- Prepare creme:
- Drain the prunes and reserve the wine
- Chop the prunes coarsely
- Chop the walnuts, reserve 2-3 tbsp of walnuts
- Whisk the sour cream, add sugar in batches.
- Add salt, prunes, vanilla, cloves, 2-3 tbs of wine, lemon juice and lemon zest, stir well until sugar dissolves
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- Spread the creme over crusts, one by one.
- Pour reserved walnuts over the top crust
- Refrigerate for several hours or overnight
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