Streusel Spice Pear Cake – a delicious weekend brunch pear and spice coffee cake with a crunchy streusel topping that’s also delicious made with apples if no pears are available.
Streusel Spice Pear Cake
I found three big juicy pears on the kitchen counter this morning that had begun to get over-ripe due to the fact that had survived a very busy week at our house; basically because nobody was home to eat them. Not being one to waste such beautiful fruit, I decided to try and whip together a coffee cake for brunch to put them to good use. I used my basic muffin recipe as the base for the cake recipe and added a simple streusel topping that gets added half way through the baking time. It turned out fantastic; definitely one I’ll be making again!
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Streusel Spice Pear Cake
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
1 hr
Total Time
1 hr 20 mins
Streusel Spice Pear Cake - a delicious weekend brunch cake that's also delicious made with apples if no pears are available.
Course:
Brunch
Servings: 12 servings
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp allspice
- ¼ tsp ground cloves
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup melted butter
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup whipping cream
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar or lemon juice
- 3 large pears peeled cored and diced to about ¾ inch chunks
For the Streusel Topping
- 4 tbsp flour
- 4 tbsp brown sugar
- 2 tbsp butter
- ¼ tsp allspice
Instructions
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Sift together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, allspice, ground cloves and nutmeg and set aside:
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In the bowl of a stand mixer with the whisk attachment in place, whisk together the eggs sugar and vanilla extract on high speed until foamy and slightly stiffened.
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Mix together the melted butter and vegetable oil in a measuring cup with a spout.
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Slowly add the oil and butter mixture to the egg mixture in a slow stream as the mixer continues to whisk
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Mix together the whipping cream, milk and vinegar
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Add slowly to the mixing bowl continuing to mix but at a reduced speed.
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Fold in the dry ingredients by hand with a rubber spatula being careful not to over mix. Don't worry about lumps in the batter, they are fine. When the dry ingredients are almost incorporated, gently fold in the chopped pears.
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Pour batter into a greased and floured 9 or 10 inch springform pan and bake at 350 degrees F for about 20 minutes before carefully adding the streusel topping without removing it from the oven, then bake for an additional 30-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool for about 15 minutes in the pan before serving.
To prepare the streusel topping
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Rub all of the ingredients together using your fingertips until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
Nick
Sunday 9th of December 2018
Just made this and love it! The pear went to the bottom of the cake... if I coated the pear with flour would it help? Another amazing recipe! Thank you!
Maria
Friday 8th of January 2016
Hello, I love all your recipes BUT afraid to try any as I have a fan force oven , it goes up to 230 which I believe is to hot and I do not now how to covert the temperature for your recipes . I live in Australia. Can you help ? , kind regards Maria
Barry C. Parsons
Friday 8th of January 2016
A quick Google search is all it takes to convert Fahrenheit temperatures to Celsius. 350 F = 176 C
Tina
Sunday 24th of January 2010
Hi, I didn't know how to contact you so I left a comment here. I like to invite you to http://www.tasteandshare.com, a food & wine social network, where you can share photos, videos and a link to your own blog.
Barry C. Parsons
Saturday 23rd of January 2010
Grazie mille! È delizioso!
Barry
Federica
Saturday 23rd of January 2010
meraviglia!!!! deve essere buonissima!