What’s Hot: Gluten-Free Winter Pear Cake
By: Rachael Stuart
Published: December 12, 2013

Winter-spiced, gluten-free pear cake is another great anytime recipe. Fresh market pears offer a soft but stable texture in a dense cake spiced with warm winter comforts: cardamom, cinnamon, pumpkin spice and a dash of maple syrup.
 Winter Spiced Pear Cake (Gluten Free!)
Submitted by The Delectable Life
	Ingredients:
	Spiced sugar
	1/4 cup sucanat
	1/2 teaspoons ground cardamom
	1 teaspoon cinnamon
	1/2 teaspoon pumpkin spice blend
	Cake
	1 stick (8 tbsp) local, unsalted butter at room temp
	spiced sugar (see recipe above)
	2 tbsp maple syrup
	2 large eggs
	1/2 cup coconut flour
	1/2 cup arrowroot flour
	1/2 cup almond flour
	2 teaspoons baking powder
	2 large pinches of fine sea salt
	1/4 cup full fat coconut cream
	2 teaspoons vanilla extract
	3 medium ripe but firm pears
	2 sprinkles of lemon juice
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