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 12th 2014
Keywords for this recipe: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
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|
| 27 min. | 45 min. | 1 hour 12 min. |
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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).
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.
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.
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.
You can mix different kinds of fruit, too.
Keeping
A few days in the fridge, covered with plastic film.
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 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 1 cake : 2.42 €
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
Source
My mother.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Hamburgers, Chocolate sweetcrust pastry, Aperitif rolls, Meatballs, Corsican tarts, ... All |
 | Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Scrambled eggs with butter-fried bread and fresh spinach, Tatin apples with mascarpone cream, Potimarron (chestnut pumpkin) "au gratin", Hamburger buns, Langoustine and leek tarts, ... All |
 | Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Sesame cookies, Pear and lime meringue pie, Chocolate sauce, Fresh fruit in sabayon, Shortcrust pastry (pâte brisée), ... All |
 | Baking powder: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Breton sablé biscuit dough, Gingerbread, "Moelleux" cake batter, Buckwheat almond biscuits, Sesame cookies, ... All |
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