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Pear and almond cake

Pear and almond cake

Serving size: Serves 10 or more
Cooking time: More than 1 hour
Course: Dessert
Favourite flavours: Cakes/baking

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INGREDIENTS

pears, 2, peeled, cored, each cut into eight
maple syrup, 2 tablespoons
almond meal, 1½ cups
self-raising flour, ½ cup
eggs, 4
brown sugar, 1 cup
vanilla extract, 1 teaspoon
butter, 200g, melted, cooled
icing sugar, for dusting
cream, to serve
METHOD

  1. Preheat oven to moderate, 180°C. Lightly grease and line a 22cm round cake pan.

  2. Arrange pear slices evenly in base of pan. Drizzle with maple syrup. Set aside.

  3. In a large bowl, combine almond meal and flour. In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, sugar, vanilla. Mix in butter. Pour into almond meal mixture and lightly fold together. Pour over pears in pan.

  4. Bake 1 hour, or until cooked when tested with a skewer.

  5. Cool in pan 10 minutes before inverting onto a wire rack. Dust with icing sugar.


TOP TIP
  • This cake is best served warm but once cooled, keeps well in an airtight container in the fridge. Reheat slices in microwave on medium (50 per cent) power for 30 seconds each.
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