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.
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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Not enough butter or sugar to make a cake? Never fear, I can help.
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
- Preheat oven to 180C.
- Cream butter, sugar, and coconut oil.
- Add honey and mix.
- Add egg and vanilla. Stir to combine.
- Grate the two pears and apple straight into the mix.
- Add a small grating of nutmeg.
- 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.
- Grease and flour the sides of a round cake pan, and cut out a circle of baking paper big enough to fit the bottom.
- Lay the sliced pears on the bottom, and pour the batter over the top.
- 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,
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…
Carrots are healthy.
I just LOVE pears! This recipes will be easy enough to convert to sugar free and gluten free for me so thanks! Yummm x
A sugar-free cake? That’s not a cake!
Orrrr… a cake without sugar (refined) means I can have more cake. Think about it..
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.
It’s taken me many years and a few fails, but I can wing it pretty well with baked goods now!
This looks really fresh and, well, fruity! Will make this tomorrow for a special Sunday treat!
I hope you liked it!
This is the only way I’ll eat pears. Om nom
I don’t mind pears, as far as fruit goes. But once the juice starts running down my fingers, I’M DONE.
Yum! I should make a cake now. I fact I’m gonna leap out of bed and do just that.
Did you do it? Did you do it?
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
An unhealthy cake is the best kind of cake, if you ask me 🙂
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 😉
I can’t believe I didn’t think of that! You’re more than welcome to scoff cake at my place x
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
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}.
Your husband eats four eggs? He must be a hungry man!