Recipe of Homemade Pear and Walnut Cake

Pear and Walnut Cake.

You can cook Pear and Walnut Cake using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pear and Walnut Cake

1. Prepare 2-3 of whole pears.
2. You need 150 gm of softened butter.
3. It's 160 gm of brown sugar.
4. It's 125 gm of ground walnuts (can be blitzed in food processor).
5. Prepare 120 gm of plain flour.
6. It's 1.5 tsp of baking powder.
7. Prepare 3 of eggs.
8. Prepare 1/2 tsp of vanilla paste.
9. You need 1 pinch of salt.

Pear and Walnut Cake step by step

1. Wash and dry your imperfect pears.
2. Pre heat oven to 180 degrees.
3. Grease and flour a loaf pan and line with baking paper.
4. Mix butter with the sugar, salt and vanilla for 3-4 mins with a hand mixer.
5. Mix in eggs one after another.
6. Mix the flour, baking powder and ground walnuts together and add to the batter.
7. Pour mixture into loaf pan and push the pears into the batter.
8. Place in the oven and bake for 55 mins and until a skewer comes out clean (Note the pear juice will cause the cake to be moist).
9. Allow to cool well (approx 40 mins) and serve!.