Hey guys! So my daughter suggested a peanut butter and honey flavor for my son's party, which sounds fabulous, and everybody is very excited ... except that I have no clue how to make a good honey filling. I was planning on doing a whipped filling and adding honey flavoring into it ... Lorann makes a honey flavor, but I would have to order it in, and it wouldn't get here in the next couple of days in time to make the cake. So ... adding honey into the whipped filling? Or any other suggestions? Honey butter directly would probably be too runny, right?

Any ideas? Thanks!

I do a honey cream cheese filling that everyone seems to enjoy. I don't really measure for icings and fillings, so I don't have a recipe. I just add honey till the honey taste is as strong as I want and then add powder to sugar till it's the consistency I need.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-challenge/moist-mascarpone-chocolate-cake-with-a-honey-cream-filling-recipe/index.html

http://cafemunchkin.com/2009/02/09/honey-cake-with-honey-cream-cheese-frosting/

Haven't tried them but that's what I came across with google.

There seems to be a lot of honey flavored cakes, so if all else fails you can do a honey cake and a peanut butter filling?

Thanks TexasSugar for those links. The one from FoodNetwork looks like a winner!

What about adding honey to SMBC to use as a filling? SMBC has such a light flavor on it's own I imagine it would take the honey really well? I mix all kinds of things with SMBC when I'm stuck on filling ideas!

Thank you all for your recipes and your suggestions! I've been afraid of using honey in the icing for fear of altering the structure of it as an effective filling, but this is so encouraging! Thanks guys!!

Make the whipping cream and pudding powder mousse and add honey to taste. It's AMAZING and what we use at my bakery.

What a great question -- I've never heard of honey filling!

I just eyeball it... but I think the official "recipe" is the one on the package but use cream instead of milk, whipping it to medium peaks then adding in the pudding powder (whipping still). You can adjust the amounts to get the best result for you. Any flavor of pudding will work (instant) and you can add any other type of flavor on top to give you a TON of possibilities (coffee syrups, extracts, honey, etc...)

@bob - the honey mousse is AMAZING! like eating honey butter! We make a Zen cake that is green tea cake with honey mousse mmmmm!

I wish I would have read this sooner because there is a monastery close to where I live and the monks there make creamed honey. It's thicker like butter. It would be perfect for a filling. I would have sent you some!

I would do what Kory suggested or just add some honey in to your BC. Go with a dark honey because that has more flavor. You won't need much to get that taste. Honey can taste so different depending on the bees and where they get their pollen.

I hope it works out well for you!

Love love LOVE this, thank you all for your replies!! I am actually going to try a couple of these ideas, and use whichever one seems to work best texture-wise with what I'm doing, and then just dollop the rest onto breakfast bread this weekend for my family .... mmmmmm. We ARE celebrating my son's birthday, after all, and that's as good a reason as any to eat honey cream of some sort for breakfast .

And I love the green tea cake and honey filling idea, and the creamed honey idea as well. Thank you all, I LOVE this community!

-Emi.