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Pear Crumble Cake

This Christmas cake is perfect for when friends drop by during the festive season ... - by Barbara Northwood
  • 14 Mar 2019
Pear Crumble Cake
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With a hint of spice and little pockets of mincemeat, this is a lovely post-Christmas pear & mincemeat crumble cake. Great warm with custard too. You’ll be so glad you brought it along!

Ingredients

FOR THE PEARS

4 firm pears, peeled, cored and cut into thumb-size pieces

3 tbsp golden caster sugar

1 tsp mixed spice

FOR THE CAKE MIX

250g pack salted butter, softened (use a tiny bit for greasing)

250g/9oz golden caster sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla paste

5 large eggs

200g/8oz self-raising flour

100g/4oz ground almonds

7 tbsp plain flour

6 tbsp mincemeat

Method

  1. Put pears into a non-stick frying pan with 2 tbsp sugar and 2 tbsp water. Cover, then cook over a medium heat for 10 mins until just tender, stirring every so often. There shouldn’t be juices once the pears are cooked. Add the spice; leave to cool

  2. Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Butter then line the base and sides of a 20cm round, deep cake tin. Put butter, sugar, vanilla and ¼ tsp salt into a large bowl. Beat with an electric hand whisk until pale and fluffy. Add eggs and flour, beat until smooth, then fold in almonds with a spoon. Remove 85g batter and put into a small bowl. Into this add the plain flour and chop into the mix with a cutlery knife to make a soft, crumbly-looking mix.

  3. Spoon half the cake mix into the tin, top with half the pears, dot over half the mincemeat, then dollop the rest of the cake mix on top. Scatter with remaining pears, mincemeat, then the crumble mix. Sprinkle with final 1 tbsp sugar. Bake for 1½ hrs, covering with foil after 1 hr, until golden, risen and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 10 mins, then cool on a rack. Keep it in the lining paper, as this will help it stay moist. Will keep, well wrapped in an airtight tin, for 5 days. Freeze for 1 month

PER SERVING 

442 kcals, protein 7g, carbs 50g, fat 25g, sat fat 12g, fibre 2g, sugar 36g, salt 0.56g

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Barbara Northwood
Barbara Northwood
Barbara has over 38 years experience in the food industry, loves sharing advice, recipes and know-how on everything food. She’s a passionate gardener and being to grow fresh herbs, lemons and rhubarb and more, gives her great satisfaction.

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