Tom’s Gilded Pear & Cardamom Cake recipe - The Great British Bake Off

Ingredients

• 6 pears, peeled, cored and cut into 3mm-thick slices
• 250g fresh or frozen blackcurrants
• 250g blueberries, plus extra to decorate
• 200g blackberries, plus extra to decorate
• 500g self-raising flour
• 500g unsalted butter, softened
• 435g caster sugar
• 10 eggs, lightly beaten
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 2 tsp finely ground green cardamom (about 20 pods)
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 1 small pear, to decorate
• 1 sheet of edible gold leaf
• 250g unsalted butter, softened
• 500g icing sugar, sifted, plus extra for gilding
• about 2 tbsp whole milk
• ¼ tsp finely ground green cardamom (about 5 pods)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract