Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Gâteau Fondant Aux Poires - French Pear Cake

I love desserts but I am fussy about what kind of dessert I eat. I am not a real fan of the very sugary types.  This French Pear cake has a very light sweet flavour . The pear flavour stands out more than the sugar, making this a dessert you can eat until the last bite.  A nice compliment to this cake is a scoop of vanilla ice cream, a vanilla sauce or a custard sauce.  With this recipe, I made a vanilla sauce one night ( only because I ran out of eggs) and ice cream the next day.  Both were exceptional and even great on its own.

Ingredients :

4 Bosc pear, peel, cored and sliced - set aside

1/2 cup of flour
1/3 cup of sugar
1 TB  baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

Mix the above ingredients together. 

Then add :

1 tsp vanilla
1-2 tsp almond extract ( I added two)
2 eggs
1/3  cup of milk

Mix above ingredients and add to flour mixture until blended.  I will have a consistency of pancake batter.

Add the sliced pear and coat well.

Coat an 8" springform pan  generously with butter.  Pour the pear batter into the pan.

Bake in a 375 oven for about 30 minutes.  Ovens vary but it will seem sponge  and started to have turned lightly golden.  Take out of oven and follow next step.

In a bowl,  mix together :

1 large egg
1/3 cup of sugar
1/4 cup of melted butter

**  do not add the heated butter to the egg mix, let it cool some so the egg does not cook.

Pour the egg sugar mix over the cake and place back in the oven for another 10 minutes at 400 degrees.

Cool.  Serve.


Enjoy !