This homey cake is great as a casual dessert, coffee cake or after-school treat.
- Portion size 12 servings
- Credits : Canadian Living Magazine: September 2008
Ingredients
Pear Filling:
Walnut Streusel:
Method
Walnut Streusel: In bowl, stir together flour, sugar and salt. Using pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in walnuts. Set aside.In separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, cardamom and salt. In large bowl, beat eggs with brown sugar until pale; beat in butter. Stir in flour mixture alternately with pear nectar, making 2 additions of flour mixture and 1 of pear nectar. Set aside.
Pear Filling: Peel, halve and core pears; thinly slice crosswise. In bowl, toss together pears, sugar and flour. Set aside.
Scrape half of the batter into parchment paper–lined 9-inch (2.5 L) square metal pan. Arrange pears over top. Dollop remaining batter over pears; spread evenly. Sprinkle with streusel. Bake in centre of 350°F (180°C) oven until golden and cake tester inserted in centre comes out clean, 1 hour. Let cool on rack.
Nutritional facts Per serving: about
- Sodium 219 mg
- Protein 5 g
- Calories 370.0
- Total fat 16 g
- Cholesterol 77 mg
- Saturated fat 8 g
- Total carbohydrate 53 g
%RDI
- Iron 15.0
- Folate 31.0
- Calcium 6.0
- Vitamin A 12.0
- Vitamin C 3.0
