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Ingredients
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Pear Cake with Nuts
35 min., ready in 1 hr 35 min.
Time:
Ingredientsfor
- Ingredients
- 6 Pear
- 150 grams chopped Walnut
- 100 grams ground Walnut
- 250 grams Pastry flour
- 150 grams powdered sugar
- 120 milliliters vegetable oil
- 1 pkg Baking powder
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- 3 eggs
- 1 lemon (juice)
- 1 pinch salt
- For garnish
- powdered sugar
- 2 Tbsps lemon juice
Preparation
1.
Preheat the oven to 200°C (approximately 400°F). Peel pears, quarter lengthwise, cut out cores, then cut into small pieces. Toss the pears immediately with lemon juice.
2.
Stir together flour, ground walnuts, baking powder, salt, and ginger.
3.
In a second bowl mix together oil, sugar and eggs until creamy. Add the flour mixture and stir until combined. Fold in the chopped nuts and drained pear pieces. Place in a buttered and floured springform pan.
4.
Bake for about 1 hour. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for about 15 minutes in the pan. Unmold the cake and cool completely on a wire rack. To serve, drizzle the cake with lemon juice and dust with powdered sugar. Serve with whipped cream if desired.