Puree Pear Cake
Although my kids will eat pear, they will not eat pear in a cake if they see the pear pieces. So I decided to puree the pear into the cake mixture to provide the taste and nutrients of pear, without getting the complaints. Scroll down to see how it’s done!
Ingredients
125 butter softened
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
¾ cup caster sugar
2 eggs
1 ½ cups self-raising flour
½ cup milk
3-4 ripe pears blended
Method
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
- Beat butter, essence and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time beating well in between.
- Add flour and milk in batches a little of each at a time and mix together
- Add blended pear.
- Pour mixture into a greased pan and place in the oven.
- Cook for 30-40 minutes or until the centre springs back. You can test with a skewer to determine if you cake is ready. Simple insert the skewer into the middle and if the skewer comes back out clean, the cake is cooked.
- Leave for 1-2 minutes and then remove from pan onto a cooling rack.
Unfortunately, there is no image of the cooked Pear Cake as the complete cake was gobbled up that afternoon by 6 hungry children…I wasn’t quick enough to get the image sorry 🙁
