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Poached Pears Almond Cake Recipe
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To be with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook poached pears almond cake using 20 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Poached Pears Almond Cake:
- Get Poached Pears:
- Prepare Water, 750ml or More
- Prepare 150 g Dark Muscovado Sugar,
- Get 1 Cinnamon Stick,
- Prepare 2 Star Anise,
- Get 1 Stalk Lemongrass White Part Only,
- Prepare Fresh Orange Zest, 1 Orange
- Get 1/2 Inch ger Thinly Sliced,
- Get 3 Pears Preferably Bosc,
- Make ready Cake:
- Take Unsalted Butter Softened, 110g + More For Greasing
- Take 75 g Dark Muscovado Sugar,
- Make ready 2 Eggs Lightly Beaten,
- Make ready 110 g Almond Meal,
- Prepare 50 g Unbleached All Purpose Flour,
- Take 1/2 TSP Salt,
- Make ready 1/2 TSP Baking Powder,
- Get 1/2 TSP Pure Vanilla Extract,
- Make ready Almond Flakes, A Sprinkle
- Make ready Icing Sugar, For Dusting
Instructions to make Poached Pears Almond Cake:
- Poach pears. - - In a sauce pot, add water, sugar, cinnamon, star anise, lemongrass, orange zest and ger. - - Stir to combine well. - - Lightly bruise the lemongrass with knife, just like crashing a garlic.
- Bring it up to a boil. - - Turn the heat down to low and bring it to a slow simmer. - - Simmer for about 30 mins. - - Remove from heat.
- Working 1 pear at a time. - - Peel the pear with a potato peeler. If you are good with knives, use a knife instead. - - Using a melon baller, gently scrape out the bottom.
- Continue scrapping until all the seeds are scraped out. - - Be careful and try not to damage the pears. - - Slice the bottom of the pears to make it flat.
- Immediately transfer into the water mixture. - - Repeat the process from the remaining pears. - - If the water is not enuff to fully submerge the pears, add more water. - - Return to a medium heat.
- Bring it up to a slow simmer. - - Turn the heat down to low. - - Cover the pears and water with parchment paper to allow even poaching. - - Poach the pears for 30 mins.
- Remove from heat and set aside to cool down completely. - - Sit in the fridge overnight or up to 3 days.
- Prepare the cake. - - Preheat oven to 170 degrees celsius or 340 fahrenheit. - - Take the poached pears out of the syrup mixture and carefully place on a wire cooling rack to drain off any excess liquid.
- You can make tea with the amazing spiced syrup or make a chocolate sauce.* - - Grease loaf pan with butter. - - Line parchment with the sides overhang. - - In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add in eggs and continue creaming until well combined. - - In another large bowl, sieve together almond meal, flour, salt and baking powder, - - Transfer the almond meal mixture into the butter mixture. - - Add in vanilla.
- Gently fold to combine well. - - Transfer into the loaf pan. - - Carefully place the pears into the batter with the stems protruding.
- Wack into the oven and bale for 40 to 50 mins or until a skewer comes out clean with a few cbs. - - Half way thru’ baking process, take the cake outta the oven and sprinkle almond flakes over the top. - - Remove from oven and set aside for 10 mins.
- Unmold and let it cool down completely on a wire cooling rack. - - Dust some icing sugar over the top. - - Slice and serve.
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