Another pear cake

We are still working our way through the pears, trying to savour each one, as they feel so special. I thought I’d try another pear cake, basically an apple gingerbread with pears, or one big pear actually and a handful of walnuts. Pear gingerbread Pear puree made from one large pear or two small pears – or, in fact, apples 75g butter 75g sugar 1 tblsp golden syrup 1 tblsp treacle 175g gluten free self-raising flour* Half a tsp xanthan gum* Glug of green ginger wine (or 1tsp ground ginger) 1 egg handful of walnut pieces *if you don’t need to be gluten free, just use ordinary self-raising flour Cook the pear first and allow it to cool Melt the butter, sugar, syrup and treacle in a pan and allow it to cool too Add the pear puree and the ginger wine Sieve the flour and the xanthan gum and mix into the cake mixture (I usually try and do all of this in a big pan to cut down on washing up). Make sure the whole lot is cool enough that you don’t get scrambled egg when you add the egg Beat the…

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