Pear Cake
"Easy to make and tastes delicious. What else to ask for? Sort of like a Pear Tatin with a cakey crust."
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
-
8-10
ingredients
- 10 tablespoons butter, room temperature
- 2⁄3 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons dark rum
- 4 -5 semi-ripe pears
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon, zest of
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cardamom, ground
- 1⁄3 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup all-purpose flour, plus
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- lightly whipped cream
directions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200C).
- Butter a 10 inch, deep-dish pie plate with 1 ½ tblsps of butter.
- Sprinkle bottom with 2/3 cup sugar, lemon juice and 2 tblsps rum.
- Peel pears, halve lengthwise and core.
- Cut halves crosswise into ¼ inch thick slices.
- Arrange slices, round side down, in concentric circles.
- Bake until pears are lightly caramelized and very tender, about 1 hour.
- Cool pears slightly.
- Reduce oven temperature to 375F (190C).
- Cream remaining 8 ½ tblsps butter with ½ cup sugar, 1 tblsp rum, lemon zest, cardamom and salt and mix until smooth.
- Beat in eggs, one at a time.
- Fold in flour and baking powder.
- Spoon evenly over pears.
- Bake 25-30 minutes.
- Immediately invert cake onto platter.
- Spread any caramel remaining in pie plate over pears.
- Serve at room temperature with a dollop of lightly whipped cream.
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Reviews
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You have to make this when you are not short of time as there is a lot of prep work to this cake, I am pleased with the taste but the pears baked out a bit too soft which might have been the fault of my slightly over ripe pears... I might give this same recipe a try using apple slices, it's a delicious cake, thanks Ev!...Kitten:)
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I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.
