Country Style Pear Cake Recipes

COUNTRY PEAR CAKE

Steps:

• Position oven rack in the center of oven; preheat oven to 375°.
• Grease and flour a 9 inch round cake pan; set aside.
• In a big bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, oil, and lemon zest until well blended.
• Beat in 2/3 cup sugar.
• Stir in the flour and mix until a smooth batter is formed.
• Peel the pears; cut the pears lengthwise into quarters; cut away the tough cores and any seeds.
• Slice the pear quarters crosswise into 1/4-inch slices.
• Add the pears to the batter and stir gently so they are completely incorporated into the batter.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan; sprinkle the top of the cake with the 1 tablespoon sugar.
• Bake for 50 minutes; set the pan on a wire rack to cool.
• Serve the cake warm or at room temperature.
• *Serve with vanilla ice cream or caramel sauce.

AUNT JOSEPHINE'S FRESH PEAR CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch fluted tube pan (such as a Bundt®) with cooking spray; dust lightly with flour.
• Mix flour, baking soda, sea salt, allspice, cinnamon, and cloves together in a bowl.
• Beat sugar and grapeseed oil together in a separate bowl until creamy; stir in eggs. Stir flour mixture into sugar mixture; add pears. Blend batter with an electric mixer until thickened, about 3 minutes. Fold pecans into the batter and mix by hand until batter is well blended, about 2 more minutes. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes. Loosen cake from pan by gently running the edge of a knife between cake and pan; let cool in pan for 20 minutes. Place a cake plate upside-down atop cake and flip pan to turn cake onto plate.

FRESH PEAR CAKE

Steps:

• Combine the pears and the sugar and let stand for one hour.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Spray a 10 inch bundt pan with non-stick cooking spray.
• Slightly beat the egg whites and combine them with the oil, chopped pecans and pear mixture.
• Stir the flour, salt, baking soda, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves. Stir in the pear mixture. Pour batter into the prepared bundt pan.
• Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Remove from oven ant let cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes before removing form pan.

COUNTRY PEAR-PECAN SNACK CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Spray bottom of 8- or 9-inch square pan with cooking spray. In small bowl, mix all streusel ingredients; set aside.
• In large bowl, mix 1 3/4 cups flour, granulated sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, baking soda, ginger and salt with spoon. Add oil, buttermilk and eggs; mix with spoon until blended. Stir in pears. Spread batter in pan; sprinkle with streusel.
• Bake 45 to 55 minutes or until deep golden brown and set on top. Cool 15 minutes. Serve warm or cool.