Another weekday lunchbox/afternoon tea offering. Simple, delicious, cup of tea mandatory.
Unless you’re my kids, in which case you’ll want milk in a Peter Rabbit cup and then fight over which Peter Rabbit cup you get.
You can ice, but I don’t bother. I don’t even dust gently with icing sugar or whatever it is you’re meant to do. I imagine eating this cake in big chunks on a rocky shore with a bottle of lemonade and some hardboiled eggs, but then I’ve read too much Enid Blyton.
Eat it. You’ll like it. Rocky shore optional.
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Excellent for lunchboxes and pretend Famous Five picnics.
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Ingredients
- 125g softened butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 Large eggs
- 2 Large pears, peeled, cored, and diced
- 1 teaspoon ginger
- 2 tablespoons molasses
- 1.5 cups plain flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder (heaped)
- 1/2 cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C.
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter and the sugar.
- Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing after each addition.
- Add the ginger, the molasses, and the pears. Fold in gently.
- Fold in the baking powder mixed with the plain flour and stir a few times. Add the milk before it’s all totally incorporated.
- Grease and flour a round cake tin and add batter. Bake for 25-30 minutes until top springs back when pressed, and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
- Get some lemonade or a dog named Timmy.
Keywords: ginger cake, pear cake, gingerbread, pear gingerbread, ginger tea cake, pear tea cake
Ohhh, I see ginger pear cake in my near future. Looks yum!
Lemme know if you do it!
Looks delish. Ginger and pear are such a wicked combo! Nom!
It was a last minute addition, but a welcome one 🙂
This looks amazing! And as someone who was also a compulsive Enid Blyton reader, I’m totally sold over 🙂
With the ginger, are you using ground (dried), or fresh grated? x
ground dried!
Looks great, when your girls get a bit older you should definitely introduce them to the Famous Five they have made a big comeback amongst seven to nine-year-olds. My son absolutely loved reading them.
Oh I cannot wait! I’ve saved all the ones I’ve collected over the years 🙂
Hehe I think I’ll choose the lemonade… one dog is enough at our house! I love these sorts of cake – simple and delicious. Perfect with a cuppa!
Hahah we don’t have a dog so there’s still time…
This look yummy I want to make it but what is molasses?
It’s a sugarcane by product, Tina, less refined than golden syrup. It’s usually called treacle, I think… mostly call it molasses for when you feed it to horses and such. I think you could substitute golden syrup or honey or rice malt syrup but it doesn’t have quite the same depth of flavour.
Thanks girl! Treacle is the UK, molasses is the US. I’d go golden syrup for this recipe (but I love using molasses as it’s quite high in iron. Plus it tastes like real gingerbread!)
I might make this with apples. 🙂
Go on witcho’ bad self!
love it. love pears. love Enid. Let’s be the famous five and go jolly hockey sticks 🙂
PERFECT. I’m in!
I just wanted to write and say thank you for this recipe! I absolutely love it. I used freshly grated ginger (as it’s what I had) and it turned out great. It’s a new family favourite!
Oh dude, I’m so stoked to hear that! And thanks for making it with fresh ginger, now when people ask me if that’s what they can use, I can say YES!
I have made this twice in less that a week, a) because it tastes so good and b) on night shift you sometimes just need cake!
Haha I’ll totally agree – night shift always needs a special treat!
I made this and had to come back to comment- this is SO GOOD!
I had medium sized pears so I used three instead of two and it came out very moist and I love the ginger. For those in the states, the 125 grams of butter converts to a little over 8 tablespoons. Hope that helps someone! I will be adding this to my stash of go-to recipes
★★★★★