diff --git a/barretenberg/ts/src/barretenberg/backend.ts b/barretenberg/ts/src/barretenberg/backend.ts
index 546b6738f6b..a92a7fa98a5 100644
--- a/barretenberg/ts/src/barretenberg/backend.ts
+++ b/barretenberg/ts/src/barretenberg/backend.ts
@@ -265,13 +265,16 @@ export class UltraHonkBackend {
     // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars
     _numOfPublicInputs: number,
   ): Promise<{ proofAsFields: string[]; vkAsFields: string[]; vkHash: string }> {
+    console.log(`instantiating...`);
     await this.instantiate();
+    console.log(`instanted`);
     // TODO(https://github.com/noir-lang/noir/issues/5661): This needs to be updated to handle recursive aggregation.
     // There is still a proofAsFields method but we could consider getting rid of it as the proof itself
     // is a list of field elements.
     // UltraHonk also does not have public inputs directly prepended to the proof and they are still instead
     // inserted at an offset.
-    // const proof = reconstructProofWithPublicInputs(proofData);
+    const proof = await this.api.acirProofAsFieldsUltraHonk(_proof);
+    console.log(`converted proof`);
     // const proofAsFields = (await this.api.acirProofAsFieldsUltraHonk(proof)).slice(numOfPublicInputs);
 
     // TODO: perhaps we should put this in the init function. Need to benchmark
@@ -281,12 +284,12 @@ export class UltraHonkBackend {
 
     return {
       // TODO(https://github.com/noir-lang/noir/issues/5661)
-      proofAsFields: [],
+      proofAsFields: proof.map(proof=>proof.toString()),
       vkAsFields: vk.map(vk => vk.toString()),
       // We use an empty string for the vk hash here as it is unneeded as part of the recursive artifacts
       // The user can be expected to hash the vk inside their circuit to check whether the vk is the circuit
       // they expect
-      vkHash: '',
+      vkHash: '0x404',
     };
   }
 
diff --git a/barretenberg/ts/src/barretenberg_api/index.ts b/barretenberg/ts/src/barretenberg_api/index.ts
index 4bd05354276..684653a785e 100644
--- a/barretenberg/ts/src/barretenberg_api/index.ts
+++ b/barretenberg/ts/src/barretenberg_api/index.ts
@@ -667,8 +667,11 @@ export class BarretenbergApi {
   }
 
   async acirProofAsFieldsUltraHonk(proofBuf: Uint8Array): Promise<Fr[]> {
+    console.log("defining inArgs");
     const inArgs = [proofBuf].map(serializeBufferable);
+    console.log("defining outTypes");
     const outTypes: OutputType[] = [VectorDeserializer(Fr)];
+    console.log("calling wasm export");
     const result = await this.wasm.callWasmExport(
       'acir_proof_as_fields_ultra_honk',
       inArgs,
diff --git a/yarn-project/bb-bench/browser/src/main.js b/yarn-project/bb-bench/browser/src/main.js
index a31d1b06531..b3879ed7d1f 100644
--- a/yarn-project/bb-bench/browser/src/main.js
+++ b/yarn-project/bb-bench/browser/src/main.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { UltraPlonkBackend } from '@aztec/bb.js';
+import { UltraHonkBackend } from '@aztec/bb.js';
 
 import { Noir } from '@noir-lang/noir_js';
 
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ document.getElementById('bbProveSingle').addEventListener('click', async () => {
 const prove = async threads => {
   console.log(`Running with ${threads} threads`);
   try {
-    var backend = new UltraPlonkBackend(main.bytecode, { threads }, { recursive: true });
+    var backend = new UltraHonkBackend(main.bytecode, { threads }, { recursive: true });
     var noir = new Noir(main);
     const baseInput = {
       x: 1,
@@ -43,13 +43,10 @@ const prove = async threads => {
     var isValid = await backend.verifyProof(baseProof);
     if (isValid) console.log('Verifying base proof... ✅');
 
-    const proofArtifacts = await backend.generateRecursiveProofArtifacts(
-      baseProof,
-      1, // 1 public input
-    );
+    const proofArtifacts = await backend.generateRecursiveProofArtifacts(baseProof.proof, baseProof.publicInputs);
 
     // generate the recursion proof
-    backend = new UltraPlonkBackend(recursion.bytecode, { threads: threads }, { recursive: false });
+    backend = new UltraHonkBackend(recursion.bytecode, { threads: threads }, { recursive: false });
     noir = new Noir(recursion);
     const { publicInputs } = baseProof;
     const { vkAsFields, proofAsFields, vkHash } = proofArtifacts;
diff --git a/yarn-project/bb-bench/recursion/src/main.nr b/yarn-project/bb-bench/recursion/src/main.nr
index 0d508e1b24e..d0f027517b4 100644
--- a/yarn-project/bb-bench/recursion/src/main.nr
+++ b/yarn-project/bb-bench/recursion/src/main.nr
@@ -16,6 +16,6 @@ fn main(
         proof,
         public_inputs,
         key_hash,
-        0 // PROOF_TYPE_PLONK
+        1 // PROOF_TYPE_HONK
     );
 }