Honey Pear Cake

 

I often like to choose my bakes depending what I have that needs using in my kitchen.

Last week I had a lot of pears that needed using.

I often make a spiced pear cake which we love but this time I wanted to try a new cake.

After the success of my heather honey cake I decided to try a heather honey and pear cake.

I have used some lovely heather honey, that we bought on holiday from a honey farm, but you can use any honey that you like. But if you can get some heather honey I really do recommend getting some. It is so much more tastier that regular honey!

Here is what I got...

 

Honey Pear Cake

 

Ingredients

 

150g baking spread or butter

150g light muscovado sugar

3 eggs at room temperature

175g self raising flour

150g pear, peeled and chopped

1dspn flour & 1tspn cinnamon to coat the pear

2tbsp heather honey

 

Method

 

1 - Heat the oven to 180C

 

2 - Mix together the baking spread and sugar until light and creamy

 

3 - Gradually add the eggs along with a little flour to prevent curdling

 

4 - Cover the chopped pear with the flour and cinnamon mix

 

5 - Add the fruit and sift in the flour and mix until evenly combined

 

6 - Place the mixture in a greased cake in and put in the pre heated oven for 1 hour. After 40 minutes cover the cake with some foil to prevent the top from burning and continue to bake until a knife comes out clean after being put through the centre of the cake

 

7 - Leave to cool in the tin for about 10 minutes then remove from the tin and cool on a cooling rack

 

The added honey makes the cake really moist and when eaten warm it is a great pudding accompanied with either fresh custard or vanilla ice cream.

Then again, it is delicious all on it own too!