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Cake with pears for autumn days

Gabriela Lupu

cake with pears

Fall is in full swing. I love the cool frost of autumn just until the leaves finish changing and fall, crumpled, at the bottom of the tree. Various shades of bright red and orange leaves take me back to the many months of my childhood years that were spent watching the leaves fall softly, feeling them sweep across my face on their way to the ground.

Hiking up mountains. Biking down city streets. Running on trails. Fall is the perfect season to revisit the great outdoors, and fall in love with it all over again.

It’s great when you and your son don’t have a terrible cold. But, because I am stuck in the house feeling like dying, I found myself looking to cook something to make me feel better, something that will go so beautiful with a hot chocolate.

So, here it is one of my comfort food, a cake with pears from my garden, which makes my day better.

cake with pears

Ingredients:

  • 5 eggs
  • 4 sweet and soft pears
  • 10 tablespoons sugar
  • 10 tablespoons flour
  • 7 tablespoons milk
  • 7 tablespoons oil
  • 4 tablespoons cocoa
  • 1 baking powder

cake with pears

Directions:

Line a base of baking form with a parchment paper. Preheat an oven to 200°C/180°C fan.

Separate the eggs. In a bowl whisk the whites until soft peaks. Add the sugar and whisk it till it dissolved. Add the egg yolks, milk and oil. With a spoon add the flour, baking soda and cocoa and mix it very softly.

Pour the mixture into the prepared form. Press the pears in, stem end up. Bake for 40 minutes or  until a toothpick inserted into the cake part comes out clean. Allow to cool in the pan, then gently remove the cake from the pan to a rack to cool completely.

Sprinkle with icing sugar before serving. Serve with a cream or ice-cream. Enjoy!

I enter this recipe in The Great Denby Cake Off Competition .

cake with pears

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Published by Gabriela Lupu

Hi. My name is Gabi and I am a professional photographer, a new mom and a wife. I wanna learn to cook healthy food for my little one, so I made this blog to share my cooking experiments with everyone. It's gone be a long and a bumpy ride but a funny one, so stay tune for news and enjoy my ride.

200 thoughts on “Cake with pears for autumn days”

  15. Gosh this looks so simply and very effective, I am going to try this as soon as the pears come into season here (just beginning to emerge as we ae still straddling summer and autumn)

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  26. I have been cooking with pears a lot the last couple of weeks. They just seem right for the season. Beautiful photos of your creation.

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  33. Pears – how wonderfully seasonal, in this season of mists & mellow fruitfulness. My friend has just given me a bumper basket of pears from her allotment, so your recipe is very timely.

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  34. I have never thought of putting whole pears in a loaf like that – stunning! Thank you so much for sharing such an innovative idea. I’m thinking this recipe will be my fall gift to friends.

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  35. Oh, this sounds SO good! Pears from your garden! To eat a ripe pear is heaven. The ones in the store just never taste the way they should. Hope you feel better!

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  41. This has to be the coolest looking cake I’ve ever seen! My husband loves pears, I’ll have to see if I can get a vegan version of this to look just as awesome 🙂

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  45. just love the whole pear idea – cooking chestnuts here today but we do have a huge basketful of pears just begging to be used for your recepie…thanks for the inspiration 😀

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