Pears are often used in cooking. One of the most common options is cakes. For their preparation, various types of dough are used, and honey, nuts, poppy seeds, cinnamon are added as the filling. We bring to your attention several recipes of pear cake. All of them are quite simple to prepare and do not require the use of rare or expensive ingredients.
Oven Pear Cake Recipe
This is a very delicate and fragrant dessert that will literally melt in your mouth. In addition, he prepares simply and quickly. Your household and guests will appreciate both the recipe and your culinary talent.
Ingredients
To prepare this cake, we will use products such as flour and sugar - 3/4 cup each, two eggs, pears - 5 pcs., 60 grams of butter, milk - half a cup, 70 grams of chocolate, baking powder - 2 teaspoons, vanillin and salt to taste.
Instruction manual
First, turn on the oven and set the temperature at around +190 ° C. Mix the flour with salt, baking powder and vanilla. Beat eggs until foam. We begin to gradually add sugar. Beat the mass for about five minutes. Melt the butter, cool and add to the egg mixture. Then mix gently from the bottom up. After this, you should introduce half the flour, stir and add part of the milk. Then again we introduce the remaining flour and milk. At the next stage, add chocolate and vanillin, previously chopped into small pieces, into the dough.
My pears. If you want the cake to be as soft as a souffle, then peel the fruit and cut it as thin as possible. Add the pears to the dough and mix well. The fruit mass should be evenly distributed.
Lubricate the baking dish with butter and lightly sprinkle with flour. We spread the resulting dough into it and send it to the already preheated oven. Pear cake will be baked for about an hour. The dessert should appear a golden brown. When the cake is ready, remove it from the oven and let it stand for another fifteen minutes before removing it from the mold. The dessert is very tasty both in hot and in cold form. Enjoy your meal!
Pear Changeling Pie in Slow Cooker
If you have such a miracle assistant in your kitchen, then you should definitely try to cook this delicious dessert with it. For such a pie, we need the following ingredients: three eggs, a glass of flour, half a glass of granulated sugar, a teaspoon of baking powder, 8 grams of vanillin, half a teaspoon of salt, 4 medium-sized pears. You can also add cinnamon if desired.
Cooking process
First of all, it is necessary to separate the proteins from the yolks. Then whisk the last with white sugar. Add the flour and vanillin previously sifted with baking powder to the yolks, mix. It should be cool dough. In a separate container, beat the proteins with salt until a thick foam forms. Then we add the resulting mass in parts to the dough and knead thoroughly. This should be done carefully, trying not to upset the proteins.
Lubricate the multicooker bowl with oil. Now we need baking paper. From it it is necessary to cut a circle whose diameter is equal to the diameter of the bottom of the bowl. Spread it on the bottom and grease with oil. Then sprinkle the paper with sugar and cinnamon.
Let's get stuffed. My pears, peel and cut the core. Part of the fruit is cut into slices and spread in circles on baking paper. We chop the remaining pears into small pieces and add to the dough. Gently mix. Now the dough can be laid out in a multicooker bowl. Close the lid and set the “Baking” mode for 60 minutes. We remove the finished dessert from the bowl, turn it over, remove the parchment and leave to cool. Pear cake in a slow cooker turns out to be very airy, tender and tasty. Have a nice tea party!
Puff pastry dessert
Despite the speed of preparation, such a cake is not only very tasty, but also original in appearance. Note to the hostesses: they will not be ashamed to treat even guests. To prepare a dessert, we need 400 grams of puff pastry, 250 ml of water, 180 grams of sugar, a kilogram of pears, an egg, a tablespoon of starch.
Making a cake is very simple. First you need to defrost the finished puff pastry. Next, boil water, add sugar and stir. Pear clear the peel and seeds, cut into small pieces and place them in the resulting syrup. Leave to cool. The dough is divided into two parts. We roll out one of them or stretch it with our hands and line the baking dish. Sprinkle with starch. Then put the pears in circles (without syrup). The rest of the dough cover the fruit. We pinch the edges. On top decorate the cake with strips of dough cut off from the edges of the form. Grease the dessert with a beaten egg. Now you can send pear cake from puff pastry to a preheated oven to two hundred degrees. It will be baked for about forty minutes. When the dessert is almost ready, it must be sprinkled with coarse sugar on top and put in the oven for another five minutes.
Shortcrust pastry cake
We offer another dessert preparation option. As ingredients for the dough, we need 100 grams of sugar and butter, one egg and two yolks, 250 grams of flour, two teaspoons of baking powder, zest of half a lemon and vanilla. For the filling, we will use three pears. Also, this recipe for shortbread pear cake involves its meringue decoration. We will do it from two proteins and 100 grams of granulated sugar.
Let's prepare shortcrust pastry. To do this, beat the butter with sugar. Then add the baking powder, a whole egg, two yolks, vanillin and lemon zest. Stir well. Enter the flour and knead the dough. Immediately put it in a baking dish. The dough needs to be distributed evenly and make sides. We send the form to the refrigerator for half an hour. After this time, we take out the dough and put on it previously peeled and chopped pears. We send the form to the oven preheated to standard +180 ° . The cake will be baked for about half an hour. Now you can cook meringue. To do this, beat the whites with sugar until a strong foam is formed. We take the cake out of the oven and distribute the meringue on its surface. We lower the temperature to +150 ° C and continue to bake dessert. The cake can be taken out when the meringue becomes golden. Now it remains only to cool the dessert and you can serve it on the table.
Dessert with Pear Jam
We bring to your attention a recipe for a delicious and satisfying pie. Your household will probably be happy to drink tea or coffee with such a dessert.
Products
As ingredients for the pie, we will use 400 grams of pear jam, 4 cups of wheat flour, three eggs and one yolk, 200 grams of margarine, a package of dried yeast, a teaspoon of sugar, half a glass of water, a teaspoon of refined vegetable oil and salt to taste.
Recipe
Combine the yeast with a teaspoon of sugar. Pour warm boiled water and leave for a quarter of an hour. Pour the flour into a bowl, add a pinch of salt and margarine (it must be removed from the refrigerator in advance so that it softens). Grind the ingredients to the state of crumbs. Introduce the yeast. Knead the dough. It should be cool. We form a ball like it, lightly sprinkle it with flour and leave it for 20 minutes.
Divide the dough into two parts. We roll each of them to a thickness of half a centimeter. Cover the form with baking paper. We spread on it one of the resulting layers of dough. We form small sides. We spread the pear jam filling on the dough. It should be thick. If the jam is liquidy, then first it should be thrown into a colander and let the excess syrup drain. From above it is necessary to sprinkle the filling with a small amount of flour. Now you can turn on the oven so that it is heated. We spread the second layer of dough on the filling. We pinch the edges. With a knife, we make several small incisions along the entire surface of the future pie.
Take an egg and separate the protein from the yolk. The latter is mixed with a teaspoon of vegetable oil. Grease the surface of the dessert with the mixture. By the way, instead of yolk, you can take sugar syrup. Now the pear jam pie, the recipe of which we are considering, can be sent to the preheated oven. It should be baked until golden brown. Readiness can be checked in the traditional way using a toothpick. Then the dessert should be allowed to cool slightly and you can cut it into portioned slices and serve. Pear is an excellent ingredient for baking. It not only gives a piquant taste, but also very healthy.