Pear & apple cake

Ingredients:

For cake:
½ cup yogurt
¼ cup apple sauce
¼ cup milk
¾ cup vegetable oil
½ cup prepared coffee
1 teaspoon fresh ginger, grated
½ tablespoon ginger, powder
1 teaspoon vinegar
2 ⅓ cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon cloves
½ teaspoon vanilla
½ teaspoon salt
¾ cup brown sugar

For garnish:
Sliced pear into 8 pieces
¼ cup butter cubes, at room temperature
1 pear boiled in simple syrup
1 cinnamon stick

Method:
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
- Beat yogurt with apple sauce, milk, coffee in a bowl using a hand whisk.
- Add ginger (fresh and powder) then vinegar, continue beating.
- Mix dry ingredients with half cup of brown sugar in a bowl.
- Add previous mixture gradually to yogurt mixture.
- Fold in using a spatula or a wooden spoon till well combined.
- Grease rounded cake pan with butter, dust with some flour, and shake off excess.
- Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Arrange pear slices in a circular shape alternatively with butter cubes (as shown in the picture).
- Sprinkle remaining sugar over batter and pear slices.
- Bake for about 35 – 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center of cake and comes out clean.
- Cool cake before serving, garnish with boiled pear (place cinnamon stick in the middle) and drizzle with syrup as desire

تصنيف : Cooking