Blueberry & Pear Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
-
1 cake
- Serves:
- 10
ingredients
- 150 g self raising flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 75 g margarine
- 60 g ground almonds
- 2 eggs
- 1 orange, juice and zest of, grated
- 3 drops almond essence
- 2 pears, peeled, cored, and chopped
- blueberries
- 1 tablespoon demerara sugar
directions
- Preheat oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6.
- Lightly grease a deep 20cm (*in) cake tin and line it with baking parchment.
- Put the flour, baking powder, margarine, almonds, eggs, orange zest & juice and almond essence in a large bowl and beat them together thoroughly.
- Fold the pears and blueberries into the mixture. Spoon it into the prepared cake tin and sprinkle with the demarara sugar. Bake for 45-60 minutes or until firm to the touch.
- Cool the cake in the tin on a wire rack. Stored in an airtight container, it will keep for up to a week.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
jenny butt
Australia
HiI'm Jenny B..........an adopted Aussie in '72, originally hailing from Trinidad & Tobago........I currently live in S.A....alovely spot called Hallett Cove, south of the city and heading towards some of our famous wineries.....McLarenvale.........Professionally I'm a Mental Health Nurse,working in the I.C.U of Adelaide's major psychiatric hospital........I have 3 grown daughters ,all live interstate/o'seas........I go ten pin bowling as often as possible.....very good exercise !! <img src="http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j166/ZaarNicksMom/PACsticker-Adopted.jpg">