Spiced Pear Cake
- 250 g butter (at room temperature)
- 1 cup brown sugar (firmly packed)
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup golden syrup
- 1 1/3 cups plain flour
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 3 teaspoons mixed spice
- 2 pears (medium)
- icing sugar (to dust)
- vanilla custard (to serve)
- Preheat oven to 180C (160C fan forced).
- Grease and line a 30cm x 30cm (base measurement) slice pan with baking paper, extending paper at long sides for handles.
- 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.
- Stir in golden syrup, 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.
- 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.
- Remove cake from oven, then stand in pan for 5 minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Dust with icing sugar and serve with custard.
butter, brown sugar, eggs, golden syrup, flour, bicarbonate of soda, mixed spice, icing sugar, vanilla custard
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/spiced-pear-cake-456978 (may not work)