I thought the pear slices, gently frying in butter, looked beautiful:
The sponge turns deliciously squidgy as the treacle sauce sinks into it:
Ingredients:
For the pears:
2-3 pears, peeled, cored and quartered
Knob of butter
For the treacle:
25g unsalted butter
90g Demerara sugar
2 tablespoons golden syrup
For the batter:
125g unsalted butter
120g caster sugar
2 eggs
150g self raising flour
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 tablespoons milk (whole or semi skimmed)
How to make:
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/fan oven 180°C/400°F/Gas mark 6.
- Generously grease a 1.2l pudding basin with butter. Make sure that the basin is ovenproof. I used an ovenproof glass basin.
- Cut the pear quarters through again in length so each pair is now cut into 8 chunky slices.
- Heat the knob of butter in a frying pan and fry the pears over a gentle heat just until they soften. Put to one side to cool.
- Now make the treacle: Place all the ingredients in a saucepan and cook over a medium heat until the sugar crystals have dissolved.
- Pour the treacle syrup into the prepared basin and then arrange the pear slices on top.
- Now make the batter: Cream together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.
- Gradually beat in the eggs. If the mix looks like it might curdle add a little of the flour.
- Fold in the flour and cinnamon.
- Stir in the milk.
- Spoon the batter carefully over the pears. It won’t look like you have that much batter but it will be ample to cover the pears.
- Bake for 40-50 minutes until the cake appears to be cooked.
- Turn out the pudding onto a plate and serve hot with either custard or ice cream
- Bask in glory at the wonderful thing you have made.
- Eat.
10 comments:
Oh Caked, this looks divine! Those pears are definitely photogenic. Gorgeous!
Hope you're well,
Rosie of BooksAndBakes
Send a bowl this way CC! I love pudding with custard and this one sounds extremely good :)
Hope you feel better very soon.
I am loving the pear and cinnamon bake for this time of the year.
Gell well soon - The sight of this cake should lift your spirits - It did mine!! This looks SO good :)
we've all been ill too. Great cake - Lowen loves pears so Im sure she'd want to have a go at making this
What a treat to have ready to give us!
Get well soon!
Oh no! Hope you are feeling better soon. There's nothing like a squidgy sponge pudding in winter - delicious!
One of my favourites (I use ginger instead of cinnamon)... good one!
I'm sorry you're unwell, and am sending good thoughts your way. Get well soon :)
Hope you are feeling well soon. How clever to have some goodies in reserve... I appreciate your devotion to baking and your blog.
Hope by now you are feeling greta again
This looks too fatten but i am off to warm the cooker up
Great blogg
Regards
Adrian
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