Poached Pears Almond Cake
Poached Pears Almond Cake

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Pears poached in amaretto are a tasty dessert in their own right, but if you serve slices of the sweet poached fruit atop dark chocolate cake layered with mascarpone whipped cream, the result is truly magnificent. This chocolate almond cake with poached pears recipe is a beautiful centerpiece for autumn celebrations. Sprinkle with the Demerara sugar and place in the oven.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook poached pears almond cake using 20 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Poached Pears Almond Cake:
  1. Get Poached Pears:
  2. Take Water, 750ml or More
  3. Get 150 g Dark Muscovado Sugar,
  4. Get 1 Cinnamon Stick,
  5. Take 2 Star Anise,
  6. Take 1 Stalk Lemongrass White Part Only,
  7. Take Fresh Orange Zest, 1 Orange
  8. Prepare 1/2 Inch Ginger Thinly Sliced,
  9. Take 3 Pears Preferably Bosc,
  10. Make ready Cake:
  11. Take Unsalted Butter Softened, 110g + More For Greasing
  12. Get 75 g Dark Muscovado Sugar,
  13. Take 2 Eggs Lightly Beaten,
  14. Prepare 110 g Almond Meal,
  15. Prepare 50 g Unbleached All Purpose Flour,
  16. Prepare 1/2 TSP Salt,
  17. Take 1/2 TSP Baking Powder,
  18. Get 1/2 TSP Pure Vanilla Extract,
  19. Get Almond Flakes, A Sprinkle
  20. Prepare Icing Sugar, For Dusting

Trim the bottom off each pear so that it is the height of your loaf pan. To make the cake decoration, put the orange rind in a saucepan of water over a high heat. Recipes: Canele de Bordeaux, Poached Pears and Almond Tart, Panettone and Gorayba Back to video The Canele de Bordeaux is a traditional bite-sized cake from the Bordeaux region of southwestern France. Muscat-poached Seckel pears are tucked into moist almond cakes for a charming dessert.

Steps to make Poached Pears Almond Cake:
  1. Poach pears. - - In a sauce pot, add water, sugar, cinnamon, star anise, lemongrass, orange zest and ginger. - - Stir to combine well. - - Lightly bruise the lemongrass with knife, just like crashing a garlic.
  2. Bring it up to a boil. - - Turn the heat down to low and bring it to a slow simmer. - - Simmer for about 30 mins. - - Remove from heat.
  3. Working 1 pear at a time. - - Peel the pear with a potato peeler. If you are good with knives, use a knife instead. - - Using a melon baller, gently scrape out the bottom.
  4. Continue scrapping until all the seeds are scraped out. - - Be careful and try not to damage the pears. - - Slice the bottom of the pears to make it flat.
  5. Immediately transfer into the water mixture. - - Repeat the process from the remaining pears. - - If the water is not enuff to fully submerge the pears, add more water. - - Return to a medium heat.
  6. Bring it up to a slow simmer. - - Turn the heat down to low. - - Cover the pears and water with parchment paper to allow even poaching. - - Poach the pears for 30 mins.
  7. Remove from heat and set aside to cool down completely. - - Sit in the fridge overnight or up to 3 days.
  8. Prepare the cake. - - Preheat oven to 170 degrees celsius or 340 fahrenheit. - - Take the poached pears out of the syrup mixture and carefully place on a wire cooling rack to drain off any excess liquid.
  9. You can make tea with the amazing spiced syrup or make a chocolate sauce.* - - Grease loaf pan with butter. - - Line parchment with the sides overhanging. - - In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  10. Add in eggs and continue creaming until well combined. - - In another large bowl, sieve together almond meal, flour, salt and baking powder, - - Transfer the almond meal mixture into the butter mixture. - - Add in vanilla.
  11. Gently fold to combine well. - - Transfer into the loaf pan. - - Carefully place the pears into the batter with the stems protruding.
  12. Wack into the oven and bale for 40 to 50 mins or until a skewer comes out clean with a few crumbs. - - Half way thru' baking process, take the cake outta the oven and sprinkle almond flakes over the top. - - Remove from oven and set aside for 10 mins.
  13. Unmold and let it cool down completely on a wire cooling rack. - - Dust some icing sugar over the top. - - Slice and serve.

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