Pear and Ginger cake

Name: Pear and Ginger cake
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 200 grams self raising flour, wholemeal; 180 grams caster sugar; 2 large eggs; 200 grams unsalted butter; 1 piece stem ginger; 1 tin pear halves in own juice

Jenny Atkinson @jenny0124

Liverpool

Easy to make and very tasty. I used wholemeal flour which gives a slightly nutty taste to the cake.

Jenny Atkinson @jenny0124

Liverpool

Easy to make and very tasty. I used wholemeal flour which gives a slightly nutty taste to the cake.

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Ingredients

200 gramsself raising flour, wholemeal
180 gramscaster sugar
2 largeeggs
200 gramsunsalted butter
1 piecestem ginger
1tin pear halves in own juice

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Steps

1

Beat together butter and sugar.
2

Beat eggs in a jug, and add to the mixture a little at a time with the sifted flour and mix well.
3

In a separate jug, add 4-5 pear halves and the piece of ginger with a little of the pear juice and syrup from the ginger and blend.
4

Add this to the cake mix and mix well. Transfer to a cake tin and bake at 175°F for 20 min or untill cake is done.
5

For a light glaze topping, mix in a saucepan, some icing sugar, water, the pear juice and more syrup from the stem ginger jar and heat untill thickens slightly and drizzle over the cooled cake.