aunt josephine's fresh pear cake

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• cooking spray
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon fine sea salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup grapeseed oil
• 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
• 3 cups peeled and finely chopped bartlett pears
• 1 cup chopped pecans

Recipe

Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 50 mins Ready Time: 1 hr 40 mins


• preheat oven to 350 degrees f (175 degrees c). grease a 9-inch fluted tube pan (such as a bundt®) with cooking spray; dust lightly with flour.
• mix flour, baking soda, sea salt, allspice, cinnamon, and cloves together in a bowl.
• beat sugar and grapeseed oil together in a separate bowl until creamy; stir in eggs. stir flour mixture into sugar mixture; add pears. blend batter with an electric mixer until thickened, about 3 minutes. fold pecans into the batter and mix by hand until batter is well blended, about 2 more minutes. pour batter into prepared pan.
• bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes. loosen cake from pan by gently running the edge of a knife between cake and pan; let cool in pan for 20 minutes. place a cake plate upside-down atop cake and flip pan to turn cake plate.