French Family Cake

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

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

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
30 min.	45 min.	1 hour 15 min.

Step by step recipe

1	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.
2	Mix together until the mixture is even and smooth. Set aside in the fridge. Heat the oven to 370°F (190°C).
3	Peel 4 Pears, remove the stalk and core, then cut into pieces. Put the pieces into a loaf tin or mould.
4	Put 80 g caster sugar and 2 tablespoons water into a small saucepan on high heat.
5	Cook the sugar to light caramel stage...
6	...then pour this over the fruit.
7	Cover with the cake mixture...
8	...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.

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