Juicy pear and apple cake
This absolutely delicious and moist cake is barely bound together with slices of juicy fruit.
Total Steps
7
Ingredients
16
Tools Needed
1
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- 250 g pears, peeled and cored
- 250 g apples, peeled and cored
- 2 lemons, juice of
- 180 g butter, at room temperature
- 4 eggs
- 100 g Demerara sugar
- 1 vanilla sugar
- 250 g all-purpose flour
- 150 g dark flour
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 packet baking powder
- 1 lemon, grated zest of
- 100 ml milk
- 3 tablespoons warmed honey
- powdered sugar(optional)
- ground cinnamon(optional)
Instructions
Step 1
Cut an apple and a pear into quarters, then into medium thick slices (not quite thin), and soak in lemon juice. Set aside.
Step 2
With a hand-held mixer beat the butter for 3-4 minutes until foamy.
Step 3
Alternately add Demerara sugar mixed with vanilla sugar and eggs to the butter, mix to combine after each addition.
Step 4
Alternately add to the butter and eggs mixture all-purpose and dark flour mixed with salt, baking powder and grated lemon zest with milk. After each addition mix to combine.
Step 5
Spread the dough into the buttered and floured baking form. Press pear and apple slices vertically into the dough, forming very thick rows.
Step 6
Brush the top with warmed honey and bake in the oven at 180°C for about 40 minutes or until done.
Step 7
Cool the cake and sprinkle with a mixture of powdered sugar and cinnamon or just cinnamon. Cut into slices and serve.