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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.

40,9944.2/5 for 5 ratings

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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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How long does it take?

Time required for this recipe:

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

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,398 Kcal or 10,040 Kj	25 gr	357 gr	97 gr
120 %	10 %	34 %	15 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
193 Kcal or 808 Kj	2 gr	29 gr	8 gr
10 %	1 %	3 %	1 %

Per cake
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,398 Kcal or 10,040 Kj	25 gr	357 gr	97 gr
120 %	10 %	34 %	15 %

% 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 : 2.42 €

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Source

My mother.

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cramique, Ramekins of duchess potatoes, New hamburger buns, Fraisier (French strawberry cake), Spinach on toast with bechamel, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Almond dacquoise, Gâteau Nantais, How to succeed in making sabayon (syllabub), Almond macaroon cake, Shortcrust pastry (pâte brisée), ... All
	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Checkerboard biscuits, Rolled chestnut and apple brioche, Rabbit civet, Brioche dough, Panettone, ... All
	Baking powder: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Little lemon biscuits, Potato Waffles with Smoked Salmon, Traditional nutty choc-chip cookies, Breton sablé biscuit dough, Dublin fruit scones, ... All

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