Mini Apple Honey Cakes

Mini Apple Honey Cakes - because I wanted to bake, and had honey, and Rosh Hashanah is this weekend

Ingredients:

Cake:

• 2 cups shredded apples
• 1/2 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 1 3/8 cups (180 grams) flour
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon fine sea or table salt
• 1/2 cup (118 ml) vegetable oil
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1/4 cups white sugar (use 1 tablespoon in apples)
• 1/4 cups brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs

Glaze:

• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 2 tablespoons apple juices
• 1 tablespoon butter (optional)
  
• 1/2 cup confectioners sugar

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Mix a tablespoons sugar and the cinnamon together. Stir into apples, and let sit.
3. Grease one 12 count mini-bundt pan and one 30 count mini bundtlette pan (or two 24 count mini-muffin pans) with cooking spray.
4. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
5. In another bowl, whisk together oil, honey, sugar, vanilla, and eggs.
6. Mix wet ingredients into dry ones. 
7. Stir in the apples, reserving ~ 1 to 2 tablespoons of juices for glaze.
8. Using a cookie scoop per well, fill all the wells of the mini-bundt pans (barey rounded large cookie scoop)/mini-muffin pans (scant small cookie scoop scoop). (You should be aiming for about 75% full, so the cake can rise a bit.)
9. Bake mini-bundts for 20 - 22 minutes, and mini-bundtlettes for 16 - 18 minutes until lightly brown on edges.  (While mini muffins bake, make up glaze.)
10. In a microwave safe bowl, combine brown sugar, honey, apple juices, and butter.
11. Heat at high for 1 minute, stir, and heat another minute (bring mixture to a boil.)
12. Continue to heat another 2 to 3 minutes, stirring every minute.
13. Let cool a couple of minutes.
14. Whisk in confectioners sugar until smooth, and paint or spread over mini-muffins.

 

Carole's Notes:

 We liked these!

The recipe is adapted from http://carolelikesroundfood.blogspot.com/2017/09/mini-muffin-honey-apple-cakes.html and https://toriavey.com/toris-kitchen/honey-apple-cake/