Name: Pear & mincemeat crumble cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 40 min
Total time: 2 h
Yield: Cuts into 12 slices
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 4 firm pears peeled, cored and cut into thumb-size pieces; 3 tbsp golden caster sugar; 1 tsp mixed spice; 250g pack salted butter softened (use a tiny bit for greasing); 250g golden caster sugar; 1 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla paste; 5 large eggs; 200g self-raising flour; 100g ground almonds; 7 tbsp plain flour; 6 tbsp mincemeat

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Pear & mincemeat crumble cake

Pear & mincemeat crumble cake

Jane Hornby

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Cuts into 12 slices

Easy

Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 1 hr and 40 mins

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With a hint of spice and little pockets of mincemeat, this is a lovely post-Christmas cake, great with warm custard

Freezable

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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For the pears

4 firm pears

peeled, cored and cut into thumb-size pieces
3 tbsp golden caster sugar
1 tsp mixed spice

For the cake recipe

250g pack salted butter

softened (use a tiny bit for greasing)
250g golden caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract

or vanilla paste
5 large eggs
200g self-raising flour
100g ground almonds
7 tbsp plain flour
6 tbsp mincemeat

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal442
fat25g
saturates12g
carbs50g
sugars36g
fibre2g
protein7g
salt0.56g

low

Method

step 1

Put pears into a non-stick frying pan with 2 tbsp sugar and 2 tbsp water. Cover, then cook over a medium heat for 10 mins until just tender, stirring every so often. There shouldn’t be juices once the pears are cooked. Add the spice; leave to cool.
step 2

Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Butter then line the base and sides of a 20cm round, deep cake tin. Put butter, sugar, vanilla and ¼ tsp salt into a large bowl. Beat with an electric hand whisk until pale and fluffy. Add eggs and flour, beat until smooth, then fold in almonds with a spoon. Remove 85g batter and put into a small bowl. Into this add the plain flour and chop into the mix with a cutlery knife to make a soft, crumbly-looking mix.
step 3

Spoon half the cake mix into the tin, top with half the pears, dot over half the mincemeat, then dollop the rest of the cake mix on top. Scatter with remaining pears, mincemeat, then the crumble mix. Sprinkle with final 1 tbsp sugar. Bake for 1½ hrs, covering with foil after 1 hr, until golden, risen and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 10 mins, then cool on a rack. Keep it in the lining paper, as this will help it stay moist. Will keep, well wrapped in an airtight tin, for 5 days. Freeze for 1 month.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, January 2010

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