Recipe Sunday – Vegan Pear Cake

/ thevegancatlibrarian

Happy Sunday, kittens! How are you? The past week was probably the busiest week in November, so keeping my fingers crossed that the rest of the month will be as uneventful as possible. And while I was off yesterday, I was out with friends for a walk and brunch, then went to a friend’s 50th birthday dinner, and today I had my third and last pre-grading to grade to red belt-black tag!

During the week, it was almost impossible to make anything special to eat, and today I was forgetting about making something sweet for the week, but remembered that I had some pears that had to be used and found this delicious recipe for a Vegan Pear Cake by ExceedinglyVegan that did not disappoint!

Vegan Pear Cake by ExceedinglyVegan

INGREDIENTS

  • 200g self-raising flour
  • 110g caster or brown sugar
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp cinnamon powder
  • 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 150ml dairy-free milk
  • 75ml sunflower oil
  • 2 tsp vanilla essence
  • 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 3 pears
  • Vegan butter to grease the baking tin
  • Baking paper
  • Icing sugar (optional)

METHOD:

  1. Preheat your oven to 180C (360F). 
  2. Mix together all dry ingredients in a large bowl. Make sure that there are no lumps. If you don’t have self-raising flour then just use normal flour and add 2 tsp baking powder instead of just 1.
  3. The mix together all wet ingredients in a separate bowl.
  4. Combine the dry and wet ingredients and mix well until you get a smooth batter (with no lumps).
  5. Then peel and deseed 3 pears. Mine actually didn’t even need deseeding. Cut each into 8 slices.
  6. Line a baking tin with baking paper and grease the sides with vegan butter.
  7. Pour the batter into the baking tin and even it out with a spatula.
  8. Then lightly push the pear slices into the dough in a star pattern. You don’t have to press them down, give them some air to breathe on the top. The cake will rise anyway and they will sink in a bit. But you want to keep the lovely star pattern visible, it looks really appetizing when you serve the cake.
  9. Bake for 35 min.
  10. Take out of the oven and let cool down thoroughly. Then sprinkle icing sugar on top for the extra wow factor. If you don’t have icing sugar at home you can use caster sugar and blend it in a smoothie blender until it turns into a powdery icing sugar.

Enjoy!

LOve,

TVCL xx

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