Recipe

Pear and Ginger Cake

20
Mins
Prep time
50
Mins
Cook time
8
Serves

A delicious recipe to use up any extra soft pears (or any other similar fruits) from your fridge, perfect for afternoon or morning tea or your kids lunchboxes!

Bread & Grains
Fruit
Sweet Treats
Vegetarian
Pear and Ginger Cake

This pear and ginger cake is an easy use it up recipe that transforms extra soft pears into a soft, spiced cake that’s ideal for morning tea or kids’ lunchboxes. It’s perfect for when you have leftover pears and need a clever way to avoid food waste. It’s so easy to fold diced pears into a simple batter and top with golden slices. This recipe is also endlessly flexible as you can swap the pears for apples or use whatever ground spice you have like cardamom or cinnamon. So, when you’re facing soft pears that need using, give this pear and ginger cake a try!

Need

2 cups plain flour 
2 tsp baking powder 
1/2 tsp salt 
2 tsp of either ground ginger, cardamom or cinnamon 
1 cup of brown or white sugar 
4 eggs 
1 cup of veg oil or light olive oil 
2 tsp of vanilla extract 
3 large pears, 1 and 1 half pears cored and diced into chunks and the remaining 1 and 1 half cored and sliced

How

  1. Preheat oven to 175 degrees celcius. Grease and line a 23cm cake tin with baking paper. 
  2. Mix wet ingredients together in a large bowl and mix dry ingredients together in a separate bowl. 
  3. Combine dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. 
  4. Add in diced pear and stir through mixture. 
  5. Pour mixture into prepared cake tin and lay sliced pear across top. 
  6. Mix ground ginger and sugar together and sprinkle across the cake mixture. 
  7. Bake for 50 minutes until a skewer comes out clean and the cake is golden brown. 
  8. Enjoy!