Rich Honey Cake With Prunes Recipe

Directions:

1. Warm up wine in microwave until very warm
2. Pour wine over prunes and set aside
3. Preheat the oven to 375F
4. Make the crust:
5. 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.
6. Whisk sugar, pinch of salt, butter, honey and eggs together over the steam until smooth and sugar dissolved
7. Remove from heat, add baking soda
8. 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
9. Fold the dough out on a well floured surface and knead until it stops sticking to your hands
10. Divide dough into 8 pieces and shape them into balls
11. For each ball:
12. A. roll it out on a well floured surface into 1/4 inch crust
13. B. put a cake dish over it, and cut around the dish to shape the crust into a perfect cake shape
14. C. transfer the crust onto un-greased baking sheet and pierce it with fork in many places
15. D. bake the crust for about 4-5 minutes, or until nicely golden. Don't brown too much
16. Set crusts aside and let cool
17. Prepare creme:
18. Drain the prunes and reserve the wine
19. Chop the prunes coarsely
20. Chop the walnuts, reserve 2-3 tbsp of walnuts
21. Whisk the sour cream, add sugar in batches.
22. Add salt, prunes, vanilla, cloves, 2-3 tbs of wine, lemon juice and lemon zest, stir well until sugar dissolves
23. Spread the creme over crusts, one by one.
24. Pour reserved walnuts over the top crust
25. Refrigerate for several hours or overnight