Pear Honey And Lime Cake Recipes

PEAR, HONEY AND LIME CAKE

Steps:

• For the pears, melt the butter in a medium skillet on medium heat.
• Add the pears and cook, turning occasionally, 5 minutes, until light golden.
• Stir in the lime juice, honey and vanilla bean and cook for 2 more minutes.
• Stir in the liqueur and remove from the heat.
• Let the pears steep about 3 hours.
• Discard the vanilla bean.
• For the cake, in a large bowl, beat the butter, sugar and lime zest with a hand mixer at medium speed until smooth.
• Blend in the baking powder and salt.
• Beat in the eggs, one at a time.
• Turn the speed to low and beat in the flour until just blended.
• Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let rest 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, grease a 9" springform pan and line the bottom with parchment paper.
• Drain the pears, reserving the syrup.
• Pat the pears lightly dry.
• Thinly slice half of the pears and reserve.
• Chop the remaining pears and stir into the batter.
• Transfer the batter to the prepared pan and level the top.
• Arrange the pear slices on top.
• Bake in a preheated 400 degree F oven for 10 minutes.
• Reduce the heat to 300 degrees F and bake until the top of the cake feels springy and the tester comes out clean, about 1 hour.
• Cool the cake in the pan on a rack.
• Remove the cake to a wire rack.
• Skewer the top and spoon the reserved syrup over the top.