Sponge Cake With Custard & Pear

Name: Sponge Cake With Custard & Pear
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 20cm Round Cake
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 3 Eggs; 90 g (100 ml) Caster Sugar; 90 g (150 ml) Plain Flour OR Self-Raising Flour; 2 Pears *sliced and stewed; Icing Sugar; 1 cup Milk; 3 Egg Yolks; 3 tablespoons Sugar; 2 tablespoons Plain Flour; 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla

Hiroko Liston @hirokoliston

Melbourne, Australia

This is the cake I made for my husband who always wants Black Forest Cake for his birthday. I didn’t want him to eat the high-calorie cake because of his health issue. So I made healthy cake for him. He hates healthy food and this cake is not his favourite, but I love its delicate flavour. Pear can be replaced with other fruit of your choice.

Hiroko Liston @hirokoliston

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Ingredients

30 minutes plus cooling time

20cm Round Cake

3Eggs
90 g (100 ml)Caster Sugar
90 g (150 ml)Plain Flour OR Self-Raising Flour
2Pears *sliced and stewed
Icing Sugar
Custard
1 cupMilk
3Egg Yolks
3 tablespoonsSugar
2 tablespoonsPlain Flour
1/2 teaspoonVanilla

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Steps

30 minutes plus cooling time

1

Line the base and side of a 20cm round cake tin with baking paper. Preheat oven to 170℃.
2

Using an electric mixer, beat 3 Eggs and Sugar for 5 minutes or until thick and pale. Gradually sift in Flour while folding it in with a spatula.
3

Pour the mixture into the tin and bake for 30 to 40 minutes or until cake springs back when gently touched. Turn out on wire rack. Carefully peel away baking paper, then leave to cool.
4

Place all the Custard ingredients in a saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring constantly until custard comes to the boil and thickens.
5

*Alternative Method: Place all the custard ingredients in a heat-proof bowl and mix well. Cook in a microwave at medium power about 600W for 1 minute, and stir using a whisk. Repeat this three times. Then cook for 30 seconds and whisk, repeat until cooked.
6

Slice the cake in half and spread a half of the custard, arrange sliced pear, then cover with remaining custard, and place the top half.
7

Dust with Icing Sugar and serve.