Country-style pear cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
6-8
ingredients
- 125 g unsalted butter
- 3⁄4 cup caster sugar
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 2 cups self-raising flour, sifted
- 1⁄2 cup milk
- 3 tablespoons cinnamon
- 1⁄2 cup apricot jam
- 2 pears
directions
- Preheat your oven to 180 degrees celsius.
- Grease a deep, 20 cm round cake tin and line with baking paper.
- With electric beaters, beat butter and sugar until light and creamy.
- Add eggs one at a time stirring after each one.
- Add essence and beat until combined.
- With a metal spoon, fold in flour and cinnamon alternatively with the milk.
- Stir until just combined and mixture is almost smooth.
- Transfer mixture into prepared tin.
- Peel pears and cut into quarters lengthwise.
- Press pieces gently into cake mixture along the sides of the tin having the narrow part of the pear pieces facing the centre of the cake.
- Gently warm apricot jam and drizzle over cake and pear and bake in the oven for about 55 minutes.
- Some ovens may be a little different so keep an eye on it after 45 minutes of cooking.
- Pears are very moist and some cakes may take a little longer.
- Turn the heat down if this happens so the cake does not burn.
- Leave in the tin for about 10 minutes after cooked and then turn onto a rack to cool.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Susie T
Teesdale, Victoria
I live in Australia but I am Spanish. I am a dressmaker by trade but find myself enjoying cooking more these days. I have a great collection of recipes, some from magazines and some my own which I would love to publish one day. Having had gestational diabetes two times in my pregnancies, I have now become challenged to create a book on low GI foods and recipes. I just need to get down and do it. I have slowly posted recipes and still have many more various recipes to post. I hope you like what I have so far.