Spiced Pear Cake
Recipe: #16060
November 21, 2014
Categories: Desserts, Pear, Christmas, Fathers Day Mothers Day, Oven Bake, Vegetarian, Flour, Kosher Dairy, more
"From Recipe+ 2011 - a budget dessert, estimated cost per serve AUS90cents"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (117.9 g)
- Calories 381
- Total Fat - 21.6 g
- Saturated Fat - 13.3 g
- Cholesterol - 95.4 mg
- Sodium - 321.8 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 45.5 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.6 g
- Sugars - 30.5 g
- Protein - 3.5 g
- Calcium - 22.2 mg
- Iron - 0.6 mg
- Vitamin C - 1.7 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 180C (160C fan forced).
Step 2
Grease and line a 30cm x 20cm (base measurement) slice pan with baking paper, extending paper at long sides for handles.
Step 3
Using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar in a small bowl until pale and creamed and then beat in eggs, one by one, until combined.
Step 4
Stir in golden syrup (can use honey), then transfer mixture to a large bowl and sift flour, bicarbonate of soda, mixed spice over butter mixture and add 1/4 cup hot water, stirring until just combined and then spread mixture into prepared pan, smooth surface.
Step 5
Peel, core and quarter pears and slice thinly and then arrange pear, overlapping slightly, over cake mixture in pan and then bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted at centre comes out clean.
Step 6
Remove cake from oven, then stand in pan for 5 minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Step 7
Dust with icing sugar and serve with custard.
Tips
- Baking Paper