Better Greek: Greek Christmas small honey cakes

This dessert is traditional for greece during christmas time. We call them "melomakarona" and they are absolutely delicious!!

Ingredients:
For the cakes
530 gr. sunflower oil
400 gr. orange juice
1.200 gr. flour
30 gr. confectioner's sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp grounded cinammon
1/6 tsp grounded cloves
50 gr. butter melted
zest of one orange
roughly smashed walnuts

For the syrup
500 gr. water
700 gr. sugar
1 orange cut in half
2 cinammon bars
100 gr. honey

Preparation:
We prepare the syrup first. We put the water, the sugar, the orange and the cinammon bars in a pot and let them boil for a minute. We withdraw, add the honey and let the syrup cool.
Then we start making the honey cakes. In a deep bowl we add all the fluids and the butter. We add the sugar, the soda, the cinammon, the cloves and the zest.

We mould and add the flour. We keep moulding lightly from the center towards outside. Be careful not to mould a lot because your mixture is going to tighten. We shape the cakes in little ovals and press one of their sides to a grater.

We put them on baking paper and bake in preheated oven at 180 C for about 30 mins until they have a golden brown color. As soon as we take them out of the oven and while they are still hot we deepen them in the cold syrup. We turn them for almost 1 minute. We take them out and let them to a rail to drain. In a large plate we put some honey and a few walnuts. We add the cakes in a pile. Among each line we add honey and walnuts.

Hope you enjoy them!!
Good luck!!