Blueberry & Pear Cake

10 ingredients
5 steps

Ingredients

  • 150 g self raising flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 75 g margarine
  • 60 g ground almonds
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 orange, juice and zest of, grated
  • 3 drops almond essence
  • 2 pears, peeled, cored, and chopped
  • blueberries
  • 1 tablespoon demerara sugar

Directions

  1. 1
    Preheat oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6.
  2. 2
    Lightly grease a deep 20cm (*in) cake tin and line it with baking parchment.
  3. 3
    Put the flour, baking powder, margarine, almonds, eggs, orange zest & juice and almond essence in a large bowl and beat them together thoroughly.
  4. 4
    Fold the pears and blueberries into the mixture. Spoon it into the prepared cake tin and sprinkle with the demarara sugar. Bake for 45-60 minutes or until firm to the touch.
  5. 5
    Cool the cake in the tin on a wire rack. Stored in an airtight container, it will keep for up to a week.

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