Mulled wine and pear sticky ginger cake recipe

Ingredients

• 1 cinnamon stick
• 4 whole cloves
• 1 star anise
• 4 medium-sized firm pears, peeled, cored and quartered
• 600 ml red wine
• 1 tbsp caster sugar
• 1 tbsp (heaped) demerara sugar
• 225 g butter, softened - plus extra for greasing
• 225 g soft brown sugar
• 1/2 orange, grated zest only
• 4 large eggs
• 175 g self-raising flour, sieved
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 50 g ground almonds
• 1 lump preserved ginger (in syrup), finely chopped