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French Family Cake

The idea of a "family" cake can mean so many different things, depending on where your family came from. This French version consists of a layer of pears in liquid caramel, topped with a basic cake mixture, similar to the four quarters recipe.

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Last modified on: October 12^th 2014

For 1 cake, you will need:

1 2 eggs
2 100 g caster sugar
3 100 g flour
4 100 g butter
5 10 g baking powder
6 4 Pears
7 80 g caster sugar
8 2 tablespoons water
Total weight: 1,240 grams

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Time required

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
27 min.	45 min.	1 hour 12 min.

Keeping:

A few days in the fridge, covered with plastic film

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Put into a food-processor bowl: 2 eggs, 100 g caster sugar, 100 g flour, 100 g butter (softened and cut into pieces) and 10 g baking powder.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Mix together until the mixture is even and smooth.

Set aside in the fridge.

Heat the oven to 370°F (190°C).

Stage 3 - 10 min.

Peel 4 Pears, remove the stalk and core, then cut into pieces.

Put the pieces into a loaf tin or mould.

Stage 4 - 2 min.

Put 80 g caster sugar and 2 tablespoons water into a small saucepan on high heat.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Cook the sugar to light caramel stage...

Stage 6 - 2 min.

...then pour this over the fruit.

Stage 7 - 3 min.

Cover with the cake mixture...

Stage 8 - 40 min.

...and bake for about 40 minutes.

Serve warm or cold.

Remarks

Like in a fruit crumble, you can use whetever fruits in season you have to hand.

You can mix different kinds of fruit, too.

Nutritional information

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 1 cake : 12.75 €

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Source

My mother.

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