Poached Pears Almond Cake
Poached Pears Almond Cake

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook poached pears almond cake using 20 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Poached Pears Almond Cake:
  1. Prepare Poached Pears:
  2. Get Water, 750ml or More
  3. Make ready 150 g Dark Muscovado Sugar,
  4. Get 1 Cinnamon Stick,
  5. Get 2 Star Anise,
  6. Get 1 Stalk Lemongrass White Part Only,
  7. Get Fresh Orange Zest, 1 Orange
  8. Prepare 1/2 Inch Ginger Thinly Sliced,
  9. Prepare 3 Pears Preferably Bosc,
  10. Prepare Cake:
  11. Get Unsalted Butter Softened, 110g + More For Greasing
  12. Make ready 75 g Dark Muscovado Sugar,
  13. Take 2 Eggs Lightly Beaten,
  14. Make ready 110 g Almond Meal,
  15. Take 50 g Unbleached All Purpose Flour,
  16. Make ready 1/2 TSP Salt,
  17. Get 1/2 TSP Baking Powder,
  18. Prepare 1/2 TSP Pure Vanilla Extract,
  19. Get Almond Flakes, A Sprinkle
  20. Get Icing Sugar, For Dusting
Steps to make Poached Pears Almond Cake:
  1. Poach pears. - - In a sauce pot, add water, sugar, cinnamon, star anise, lemongrass, orange zest and ginger. - - Stir to combine well. - - Lightly bruise the lemongrass with knife, just like crashing a garlic.
  2. Bring it up to a boil. - - Turn the heat down to low and bring it to a slow simmer. - - Simmer for about 30 mins. - - Remove from heat.
  3. Working 1 pear at a time. - - Peel the pear with a potato peeler. If you are good with knives, use a knife instead. - - Using a melon baller, gently scrape out the bottom.
  4. Continue scrapping until all the seeds are scraped out. - - Be careful and try not to damage the pears. - - Slice the bottom of the pears to make it flat.
  5. Immediately transfer into the water mixture. - - Repeat the process from the remaining pears. - - If the water is not enuff to fully submerge the pears, add more water. - - Return to a medium heat.
  6. Bring it up to a slow simmer. - - Turn the heat down to low. - - Cover the pears and water with parchment paper to allow even poaching. - - Poach the pears for 30 mins.
  7. Remove from heat and set aside to cool down completely. - - Sit in the fridge overnight or up to 3 days.
  8. Prepare the cake. - - Preheat oven to 170 degrees celsius or 340 fahrenheit. - - Take the poached pears out of the syrup mixture and carefully place on a wire cooling rack to drain off any excess liquid.
  9. You can make tea with the amazing spiced syrup or make a chocolate sauce.* - - Grease loaf pan with butter. - - Line parchment with the sides overhanging. - - In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  10. Add in eggs and continue creaming until well combined. - - In another large bowl, sieve together almond meal, flour, salt and baking powder, - - Transfer the almond meal mixture into the butter mixture. - - Add in vanilla.
  11. Gently fold to combine well. - - Transfer into the loaf pan. - - Carefully place the pears into the batter with the stems protruding.
  12. Wack into the oven and bale for 40 to 50 mins or until a skewer comes out clean with a few crumbs. - - Half way thru' baking process, take the cake outta the oven and sprinkle almond flakes over the top. - - Remove from oven and set aside for 10 mins.
  13. Unmold and let it cool down completely on a wire cooling rack. - - Dust some icing sugar over the top. - - Slice and serve.

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