Baking a cake on Sunday with family or friends is one of the little pleasures of the weekend. If large and beautiful cakes like the divine Paris-Brest or Saint-Honoré are the perfect desserts for a Sunday lunch menu with the family, not everyone necessarily has the time or the desire to launch into an arduous pastry exercise! Easy-to-prepare cakes are also an excellent option, such as cakes, pound cakes, tarts, and many others.
Among all the possible options, here is a dessert based on an emblematic autumn fruit: the pear. Juicy and fragrant, it lends itself wonderfully to pastry making. Conference, Comice, Passe-Crassane, the varieties are numerous in autumn-winter. We combine it with nuts and if we feel like it, we can even integrate dark chocolate chips into the dough or serve with a chocolate sauce.
Sunday recipe: Pear and walnut cake
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
For 8 people
3 eggs
150 g of sugar
100g flour
50 g cornstarch or cornstarch
1 pinch of salt
6 g of yeast
90 g melted butter
100 g shelled walnuts
3 ripe pears
icing sugar
Whisk 3 eggs and 150 g of sugar. Add by sieving 100 g of flour, 50 g of cornstarch or cornstarch, 1 pinch of salt and 6 g of yeast. Mix well before pouring in 90 g of melted butter.
When the dough is smooth, add 100 g of shelled walnuts.
Pour the batter into a buttered cake pan. Add the quarters of 3 very ripe peeled pears, barely pressing the pieces into the dough.
Cook for 30 minutes at 180°C/th. 6. Sprinkle with a little icing sugar before serving cold.
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