Anjou pear cake

Just made this really easy quick cake thought I'd share it with you.

You need approx 1hr 30 mins spare time but it's worth every second

Ingredients
50g 2oz melted butter, plus bit for tin
500g 1lb2oz ripe pears peeled & cored roughly chopped(buttery type are best)
juice lemon
1 tbsp Poire William (Optional)
75g 2.5oz caster sugar
75g 2.5oz plain flour
1 heaped tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
2 beaten eggs
2 tbsp apricot jam
icing suger for dusting
creme fraiche to serve

Heat oven to 180 gas 4. Line 20cm loose bottom tin line and brush with butter.

Put pears in a bowl with lemon and Poire if using.
Sieve flour +baking powder with a pinch of salt
and caster sugar. Next beat in eggs and melted butter, fold in pears with juices. Pour cake mix into tin. Bake for 50 mins or until skewer comes out clean, cool remove from tin. For glaze
melt apricot jam with 1tbsp water pass through sieve to remove lumps. Brush cake dust with icing sugar serve cold or warm with creme fraiche.


Enjoy !!!!!

P.S May have to start a halogenius keep fit club with all of these great dishes being posted I started mine it's the finger excerise (typing the recipes out

Hi Hummingbird,

I think this is definatley on my to do list, sounds great .

Just to let you know I have just done 30 laps around the kitchen whilst potatoes are baking in the halogen oven, followed by 5 press ups this is my contribution to your new keep fit club lol

Glad to see you are taking part in the weight game. As for the the cake it's purrrfect

Us tigers love purrrfect food

Cake will be a roaring success with the halogen members

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