The present invention provides a method for preparing a filled bakery product, the method comprising:providing a filling composition comprising at least one powdered food ingredient and a fat blend comprising from 15 to 67 wt.% of a temper hard fat and from 85 to 33 wt.% of a liquid oil,tempering the filling composition to form a tempered filling composition,depositing the tempered filling composition on to at least one surface of a bakery product to form a filled bakery product, wherein the surface of the bakery product has a temperature of less than 36 °C, andactively cooling the deposited filling composition,wherein in the step of depositing the tempered filling composition, the tempered filling composition is deposited at a deposition temperature of from 20 to 33 °C and, in the step of actively cooling the deposited filling composition, the deposited filling composition is cooled to a temperature of at least 4 °C below the deposition temperature,wherein the temper hard fat has a solid fat content of at least 60 wt.% at 20 °C,wherein the liquid oil has a solid fat content of less than 15 wt.% at 20 °C, andwherein the fat blend has a saturated fatty acid residue content of from 16 to 42 wt.% and a polyunsaturated fatty acid residue content of less than 40 wt.%, based on the total weight of fatty acid residues of the fat blend.
