Name: Pear cake with honey sauce
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: European
Ingredients: 3 pears, cut into thin slices and pips removed; 125 ml (½ c) honey; 30 ml (2 tbsp) lemon juice; 180 ml (¾ c) softened butter; 160 ml (2/3 c) soft brown sugar; 3 eggs; 375 ml (1½ c) flour; 3 ml (½ t) baking powder; pinch of salt; 1 ml (¼ t) ground cinnamon; 1 ml (¼ t) ground nutmeg; 80 ml (1/3 c) milk; double thick cream to serve.

Pear cake with honey sauce

Serves: Serves 8 Nutrition facts: 200 calories 20 grams fat

Ingredients

3 pears, cut into thin slices and pips removed
125 ml (½ c) honey
30 ml (2 tbsp) lemon juice
180 ml (¾ c) softened butter
160 ml (2/3 c) soft brown sugar
3 eggs
375 ml (1½ c) flour
3 ml (½ t) baking powder
pinch of salt
1 ml (¼ t) ground cinnamon
1 ml (¼ t) ground nutmeg
80 ml (1/3 c) milk
double thick cream to serve.

Instructions

1 Preheat the oven to 160 ° C. Line a 23 cm round cake pan with baking paper and grease with butter.
2 Simmer the pears, honey and lemon juice for 5 minutes in a small saucepan. Drain but keep the syrup until later and let cool slightly.
3 Cream the butter and sugar together in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one by one and mix well.
4 Sift flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg and mix with the butter mixture. Finally add the milk. Mix well.
5 Pour the mixture into the cake tin and place pear slices on top. Bake for 50 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
6 Heat the pear syrup slightly and pour over the cake when it comes out of the oven. Serve warm with scoops of cream.

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Michelle Nortje

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