Salted caramel pear cake recipe | Good Food

Salted caramel pear cake recipe | Good Food

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Bake a cake that has it all: moist, fragrant sponge, silky Italian meringue, tahini buttercream and sharp pear-laced salted caramel. Serve with a cup of tea.

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Ingredients

  • 2cm piece ginger grated
  • 4 Williams pears 3 grated over a sieve, reserving the pear juice for the caramel, 1 peeled, cored and chopped (do this when about to decorate)
  • 360g self-raising flour
  • 15g rye flour
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • ½ tsp turmeric
  • ½ tsp nutmeg
  • ½ tsp ground cardamom
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 4 eggs
  • 200g golden caster sugar
  • 150g light brown muscovado sugar sieved
  • 150ml rapeseed or vegetable oil
  • 120g natural yogurt
  • toasted buckwheat dehydrated pear and rosemary, to serve (optional)
  • 50g unsalted butter plus extra for the tins
  • 50ml reserved pear juice
  • 150ml perry
  • 100g light brown muscovado sugar
  • 1 tbsp double cream
  • generous pinch sea salt
  • 4 egg whites
  • 250g golden caster sugar
  • 250g butter at room temperature
  • 2 tbsp tahini
  • 1 tbsp vanilla bean paste

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