Honey cake with figs, mascarpone, pistachios

En mémoire de Manou, morte sans que j’ai pu la revoir, le 13 août 2020.

8 servings

Ingredients

Honey Cake

• 136 g honey
• 72 g granulated sugar
• 48 g coffee or espresso (already made, not the powder)
• 72 g vegetable oil
• 94 g eggs (about 2 medium)
• 160 g all-purpose flour (1 1/3 cup)
• 9 g baking powder (2 tsp)
• 1.5 g salt (1/4 tsp)
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

Frosting

• 75 g heavy cream
• 50 g mascarpone (room temperature)
• 25 g honey (1 heaping Tbsp)

Decoration

• about 125 g of figs
• 1/8 cup shelled toasted pistachios chopped
• Honey for drizzling

Recipe

Honey Cake

1. Preheat the oven to 340 F (170 C) and butter an 8-inch cake pan, parchment paper circle at the base.
2. Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon into the main bowl and whisk them to combine.
3. Place the sugar and honey in a bowl, add the hot coffee over them and whisk to combine. This will help dissolve the sugar. Wait for the mixture to cool to lukewarm and add the oil and eggs, one by one, whisking after each addition.
4. Add the wet ingredients to the flour mixture and whisk just until it’s all combined, don’t overmix it.
5. Spoon the batter into the prepared cake pan and smooth the top, then bake it for about 50 minutes, until the cake springs back when you press it in the middle and a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. Do both tests to make sure! Cool it in the pan for about 20 minutes and transfer it to a wire rack to continue cooling.

It overcooked a bit, needed to be covered with foil.

Frosting

1. Whisk the mascarpone and the honey until they’re well incorporated and fluffy.
2. Whip the heavy cream until stiff peaks but not so stiff that it seems dry, watch it closely once it starts to form peaks.
3. Fold half of the whipped cream into the mascarpone mixture, and then the other half.

Assembly

1. Spoon the frosting onto the completely cooled cake.
2. Cut some of the figs in half and some in quarters, arrange them on top of the cream.
3. Sprinkle the chopped pistachios and then drizzle some honey before you serve.

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from madeleinekitchen

Experience with recipe:
I made the recipe once, refrigerated the dough before I baked it, it was a bit burned on the edges.