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Pear & Amaranth Upside-down Cake

September 4, 2012 by Alex McLeavy

vegetarian

organic pear cake

pear cake

Baking with unusual whole grain flours and unrefined sugars is not only great for your health: it’s also a great way to add depth and flavour to cakes, biscuits and pastries. Amaranth flour has a sweet hay-like aroma that nicely complements the strong spices and various sweeteners in this moist pear cake. It’s also high in protein, lysine and fibre, so you can have your cake and eat it too!

Ingredients (makes 1 cake)

60g panela or rapadura sugar

130g butter, chilled

pear cake

2 Tbsp golden syrup or dark coloured honey

2 pears, peeled, cored & cut in 2 cm thick wedges

100g raw sugar

1 whole egg and 1 egg white

125ml kefir

75g light sift wheat flour

50g amaranth flour

¾ tsp baking powder

½ tsp cinnamon

pinch nutmeg

pinch ground ginger

pinch sea salt

40g almond meal

thick cream, to serve

Method

  1. Preheat oven 180°C and line an 18 cm springform cake tin with baking paper.
  2. Sprinkle panela sugar over the base of the cake tin. Cut 50 g of butter into slices and arrange evenly on top, drizzle 1 Tbsp golden syrup over and bake for about 5 minutes, until melted. Swirl together with a spatula. Arrange pear pieces on top as a circular fan, with thin stalk end pointing to the centre.
  3. Beat remaining butter with raw sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg and white and beat to combine well then mix in kefir. In another bowl sift together flours, baking powder and spice. Add salt and almond meal then carefully fold dry ingredients into wet: make sure everything is combined but don’t overmix! Transfer batter to cake tin in increments, taking care not to disturb the pears.
  4. Bake in the preheated oven for 50 minutes to 1 hour, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 15 minutes then invert, drizzle with remaining golden syrup and cool on a wire rack.
  5. Serve with thick cream.

 

Filed Under: Recipes, Sweets Tagged With: organic treats, organic whole grains

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