Aunt Josephine's Fresh Pear Cake

Fresh pears and pecans are folded into a nicely spiced batter creating a dense and moist pear cake perfect for showers and brunches.

• Preparation Time: 30 mins
• Cooking Time: 50 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins
• Calories: 529 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 cup chopped pecans
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup turbinado sugar
• cooking spray
• 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 teaspoon fine sea salt
• 1 cup grapeseed oil
• 3 cups peeled and finely chopped Bartlett pears
• 0.5 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 0.5 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1.5 teaspoons baking soda
• 0.5 teaspoon ground allspice

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch fluted tube pan (such as a Bundt®) with cooking spray; dust lightly with flour.

Step 2

Mix flour, baking soda, sea salt, allspice, cinnamon, and cloves together in a bowl.

Step 3

Beat sugar and grapeseed oil together in a separate bowl until creamy; stir in eggs. Stir flour mixture into sugar mixture; add pears. Blend batter with an electric mixer until thickened, about 3 minutes. Fold pecans into the batter and mix by hand until batter is well blended, about 2 more minutes. Pour batter into prepared pan.

Step 4

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes. Loosen cake from pan by gently running the edge of a knife between cake and pan; let cool in pan for 20 minutes. Place a cake plate upside-down atop cake and flip pan to turn cake onto plate.