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Sorta-Healthy Pear Cake

August 29, 2014 by Stacey 21 Comments

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I do apologize. I set out to make a normal cake, and found myself sorely lacking the required butter and sugar amounts. I had to make adjustments, and they fly directly in the face of my belief that cake should be cake and not a health food. Anyway, if you dig coconut oil and sugar other than white, welcome! Eat some fruit in cake form. It’s about the only way I will eat it.

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I am currently drowning in apples and pears (and mandarines too, but they’re too fiddly to fuck around with for cake purposes), so they’re going into everything at this point. This one is quite moist and very soft, best eaten on the day it is made. Or frozen! I don’t even bother peeling the fruit, I just grate them straight in. Breaking all the rules around here.

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sorta healthy pear cake recipe | Veggie Mama

Sorta-Healthy Pear Cake

  • Author: Stacey Roberts | Veggie Mama
  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Cook Time: 40 mins
  • Total Time: 50 mins
  • Yield: one cake 1x
  • Category: Baking
  • Method: Baking
  • Cuisine: Australian
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Description

Not enough butter or sugar to make a cake? Never fear, I can help.


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Ingredients

  • 60g butter, softened
  • 60g coconut oil, softened
  • 1/2 cup raw sugar
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 Small eggs
  • 2 Small pears, grated (don’t bother peeling)
  • 1 Small apple, grated (don’t peel this either!)
  • 1 cup plain flour
  • 1/2 cup wholemeal plain flour
  • 1 pinch freshly-grated nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 Small pear, sliced thinly

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180C.
  2. Cream butter, sugar, and coconut oil.
  3. Add honey and mix.
  4. Add egg and vanilla. Stir to combine.
  5. Grate the two pears and apple straight into the mix.
  6. Add a small grating of nutmeg.
  7. Add the flour and baking powder. Mix thoroughly. If too dry, then add a splash of milk until the batter is smooth and easily stirred.
  8. Grease and flour the sides of a round cake pan, and cut out a circle of baking paper big enough to fit the bottom.
  9. Lay the sliced pears on the bottom, and pour the batter over the top.
  10. Bake at 180C for 40-50 minutes, checking after 30 or so minutes. It should be risen and golden brown.

Keywords: pear cake, pear tea cake, tea cake with pear, cake with coconut oil,

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Comments

  1. MotherDownUnder says

    August 29, 2014 at 5:51 am

    This poor second baby of mine…the only way it gets fruit or veg is through cakes…speaking of, I could eat some carrot cake for breakfast…

    Reply
    • Veggie Mama says

      September 1, 2014 at 11:43 am

      Carrots are healthy.

      Reply
  2. Jackie @ Hippie Mumma says

    August 29, 2014 at 12:02 pm

    I just LOVE pears! This recipes will be easy enough to convert to sugar free and gluten free for me so thanks! Yummm x

    Reply
    • Veggie Mama says

      September 1, 2014 at 11:43 am

      A sugar-free cake? That’s not a cake!

      Reply
      • Jackie @ Hippie Mumma says

        September 1, 2014 at 12:24 pm

        Orrrr… a cake without sugar (refined) means I can have more cake. Think about it..

        Reply
  3. Elizabeth@thebackyardlemontree says

    August 29, 2014 at 5:39 pm

    Love a good fruit cake. While I will improvise when I’m cooking savory food I’m very timid about going off recipe with cakes. This looks wonderful though.

    Reply
    • Veggie Mama says

      September 1, 2014 at 11:43 am

      It’s taken me many years and a few fails, but I can wing it pretty well with baked goods now!

      Reply
  4. Inger says

    August 31, 2014 at 4:01 am

    This looks really fresh and, well, fruity! Will make this tomorrow for a special Sunday treat!

    Reply
    • Veggie Mama says

      September 1, 2014 at 11:43 am

      I hope you liked it!

      Reply
  5. rebecca says

    September 1, 2014 at 3:24 pm

    This is the only way I’ll eat pears. Om nom

    Reply
    • Veggie Mama says

      September 1, 2014 at 5:13 pm

      I don’t mind pears, as far as fruit goes. But once the juice starts running down my fingers, I’M DONE.

      Reply
  6. Carly Findlay says

    September 1, 2014 at 3:47 pm

    Yum! I should make a cake now. I fact I’m gonna leap out of bed and do just that.

    Reply
    • Veggie Mama says

      September 1, 2014 at 5:13 pm

      Did you do it? Did you do it?

      Reply
      • Carly Findlay says

        September 1, 2014 at 5:18 pm

        Yes! More productive than I thought! I had no pears but I had apple and rhubarb so I made that into a compote but couldn’t be bothered waiting for it to cool to put into a cake. So I made a cake with pineapple and craisins instead. It’s what I had in the fridge. And I put butter in it. Not a healthy cake. But my brain is so thinky that I reckon I’m burning off the fat as I think x

        Reply
        • Veggie Mama says

          September 3, 2014 at 7:29 pm

          An unhealthy cake is the best kind of cake, if you ask me 🙂

          Reply
  7. Workingwomenaus says

    September 1, 2014 at 4:05 pm

    Let me know next time you make it, we’ll help you eat it the day you make it. We’re sharing, caring folk like that 😉

    Reply
    • Veggie Mama says

      September 1, 2014 at 5:13 pm

      I can’t believe I didn’t think of that! You’re more than welcome to scoff cake at my place x

      Reply
  8. Emily Psaila says

    September 12, 2015 at 3:23 am

    Wow!!! It’s all I can say this was amazing… It’s 3.30 am here, guess what I’m eating? Wish my children would sleep

    Reply
  9. Shari from GoodFoodWeek says

    June 5, 2016 at 1:47 pm

    Sending out husband now to pick up more eggs so that I can give this a crack this afternoon! We ate all our eggs for breakfast {yeah, the whole dozen that I picked up from the farmers market yesterday… 2 for me, 4 for my husband, and 3 each for my 3 year old and my 20 month old – God help us when the third arrives and the boys get older}.

    Reply
    • Stacey says

      June 9, 2016 at 2:43 pm

      Your husband eats four eggs? He must be a hungry man!

      Reply

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