Recipe

Old Fashioned Pear And Almond Cake Recipe

	Wrigggit / All my dishes 1 year, 2 months ago This Matthew Evans' cake (an Aussie chef) has breadcrumbs and ground almond meal instead of flour. It'll taste much better if you grind the almonds yourself, but the bought stuff will do the trick... Serve with Cardamom Custard- listed below... Prep:15m Cook:45m Servings:6	Wrigggit
	easy quick flourless yum oldfashioned

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Ingredients

2 large, nearly ripe pears- peeled, cored and cut into eighths

(You can also use peaches, apricots or plums for this cake)

1 tbsp brown sugar or honey

5 eggs

220g caster sugar

200g blanched almonds

50g breadcrumbs (crumb day old crustless bread in a food processor)

Directions

Grease and line a 24cm cake tin or similar. Preheat oven to 180degC

Place pear pieces in a baking dish with brown sugar and bake 10-15 mins til soft

Whisk eggs with caster sugar til thick and pale

Process almonds to a fine-ish powder in a blender

Fold these and the breadcrumbs into the egg mixture and pour into prepared cake tin.

Dot pear pieces evenly over the mix- don't use all the syrup but occasionally let a bit join the pears

Bake for about 35-45 mins or until it passes the skewer test.

Cool and serve with cardamom custard

Matthew Evans' custard uses 10 eggs, which I just can't bring myself to do. I suggest you make your regualr custard, or buy a tetrapak of custard. As you heat it, add 4-5 cardamom pods-lightly crushed, or 1-2 tspn seeds. Heat slowly and serve over a cool cake.

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